In Memoriam: Cornell Fleischer (1950-2023)
…evaluated narrative sources, as well as their advantages compared to archival materials, opened my eyes to a new level of understanding. In an era dominated by archival research, his groundbreaking…
[Maydan Podcast] On the Square EP 11 โ Preserving the Legacy: Black Creatives Making a Way
…speaking engagements, workshops, and editorial appearances for commercial brands. Their work has been commissioned by global brands and platforms, such as Nike, Sony, Google, Vogue, HBO, The New York Times…
Islam in Media | Dec 7 – Dec 13
…Must Address Past Failures to Restore Muslims’ Sense of Safety and Belonging https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/dec/08/new-zealand-must-address-past-failures-to-restore-muslims-sense-of-safety-and-belonging Following the release of the Christchurch shooting report, the government has to prove to the Islamic community…
Writing Refugee Lives: Syrian Refugees vs. โHostipitalityโ
…come back. With every call from Meryem, there is a tension building: will the narrator decide to return or take a new step? Meryem gladly receives the empty-handed narrator who…
[Book Review] Muslim Qur’anic Interpretation Today: Media, Genealogies and Interpretive Communities (Equinox, 2021) by Johanna Pink | Reviewed by Owais Manzoor Dar
…author examines these interpretive communities individually with the support of detailed case studies of present-day Qurสพฤnic interpretation. She argues that the language in which Qurสพฤnic exegesis is conveyed has a…
10 September – 16 September
…the officially atheist Communist Party. Read More Egypt freezes more than 1,000 alleged Muslim Brotherhood charities Middle East Eye An Egyptian judicial committee on Tuesday announced an asset freeze on…
[IMTF] Reflecting Muslim Communal Ethics in the Built Environment
…communal spaces (from mosques and schools, to devotional sites, community centers, and whole neighborhoods) in ways that reflect, facilitate, and encourage the cultivation of both communal and individual virtue. …the…
Teaching Nationalism in South Asia
…one classic study puts it, the “greatest function of the modern school,” is “to teach not so much useful skills as a new patriotism” and teachers’ primary duty is to…
[Book Review] Penny Sinanoglou, Partitioning Palestine: British Policymaking at the End of Empire (University of Chicago Press, 2020) by Penny Sinanoglou | Reviewed by Kylie Broderick
…in the mandate’s charter. Among the myriad White Papers,[2] maps, commissions, and other tools the British drew on between 1920-47, Sinanoglou focuses on the Peel Commission (1936-39) as a crucial…
BAMI and GAZA In CONTEXT Present | A Virtual Roundtable: On Campus Dissent
…advisory board of the online news platform Mississippi Free Press. In December 2022, she joined the African Diaspora Connect delegation of 47 people, traveling to Senegal, West Africa, organized by…