January 22-28
…Best Way to Combat Anti-Muslim Bias Pacific Standard Magazine A new study led by Emile Bruneau, a researcher at the University of Pennsylvania, suggests that the best way to lower…
[Book Review] Anna Bigelow (ed.). Islam Through Objects | Reviewed by Yasmine Flodin-Ali
Anna Bigelow, ed. Islam through Objects. New York, NY: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. 264 pages. $31.45 paperback | Reviewed by Yasmine Flodin-Ali Islam Through Objects, edited by Anna Bigelow, was published…
The 2019 Election in Indonesia: The Battle between โJokowi Loversโ and โJokowi Hatersโ
…on his integrity, promise and commitment for the development and advancement of Indonesia. Anti-New Order factions that fear the comeback of loyalists and cronies of Suharto (1921–2008), Indonesia’s dictatorial ruler…
Framing the Genocide of Bosniak Muslims as ”War on Terror”
…newspaper in January 2019. It claimed that Bosniak Muslims were organizing online, ready and waiting to take up arms and fight a holy war against Orthodox Christian Serbs. The “mujahedeen”…
July 17-23
…Headscarf-wearing women now have an emoji of their own, thanks to a 16-year-old Saudi girl. Read More Citizen Khan The New Yorker Behind a Muslim community in northern Wyoming lies…
February 26- March 4
Avant-garde Mosque Angers Hard-Liners In Iran AP News A newly built mosque in Tehran angers religious conservatives who claim the building’s architecture disrespects the Islamic Republic’s religious values. Read More…
08-14 April Islam in Media Roundup
…head royal inquiry into mosque attack AP News Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has named a sitting Supreme Court justice to head New Zealand’s top-level investigation into the actions of security…
Iranians in Istanbul and Their Oppositional Activities Against the Qajars
…Muharram (the first month of the Islamic calendar). Only a quarter century after White’s observations, however, at the end of the 1860s, the Iranian community in Istanbul was comfortable to…
Muslims, Culture, Music: Balancing Connectivity and the Preservation of Cultural Legacies through the Mediterranean
…showcasing how to cohere these various components, so that the album was hailed as “one of the most memorable works to come from popular culture in the 20th century.” With…
February 13 – 19
…and Middle Eastern history. Read More The Little Syria of Deep Valley The New yorker Jia Tolentino explores the long history of Syrian-Americans for the New Yorker. Read More This…