Islam in Media Roundup | 27 July – 2 Aug 2020
…Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a Sunday statement. Read More Israel Israel’s First Non-Bedouin Muslim IDF Officer Faces Backlash From Arab Community World Israel News Hisham Abu Ria, the…
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Sectarian Identity Entrepreneurs
…sectarian identity entrepreneurs promise to protect “their” community, while legitimizing their actions based on the foundational myths of that particular community. In such contexts, a proliferation of violence, the rule…
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Justice Kennedy Temporarily Restores Trump’s Refugee Ban Bloomberg News The travel ban will be brought before the Supreme Court October 10. Read More ‘Textbook example of ethnic cleansing’: 370,000 Rohingyas…
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…today against Muslims. Read More Muslim Comics in a Mordant Act of ‘Resistance’ The New York Times “The Big Brown Comedy Hour,” a show created in 2009 meant to feature…
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[IMTF] Charity, Detachment & the Global Inequality of Wealth: Ruminations from the Muslim Tradition
…richest men on the planet own as much combined wealth as many nations, such as Brazil and Spain. And the richest eight of them own more than the entire bottom…
[Book Review] Money, Markets, and Monarchies: The Gulf Cooperation Council and the Political Economy of the Contemporary Middle East by Adam Hanieh | Reviewed by Javier Guirado Alonso.
…markets. Part 2 (Chapters 4-6) focuses on the relation of capital in the Gulf and the wider Middle East through three sectors: agro-commodities, commercial and residential real estate, and financial…
[Conference Report] โSharia and the Secularโ | October 19-20, 2018 | University of California, Santa Barbara | by Hadi Qazwini
…the conference opened with Professor Kathleen Moore’s presentation on “Sharia Revoiced,” a project that she and other scholars have been working on that surveys the ways in which Muslim communities…
[IMTF] The Mosque as a Site of Inclusivity
…it empowers American Muslim women to cultivate Islamic authority and redefines what a mosque should look like, in my new book, The Women’s Mosque of America: Authority and Community in…