On June 28, 1971, the Supreme Court of the United States did something it had spent nearly a year trying to avoid: it sided with a Muslim. In Clay v. United States, the justices unanimously…
In this episode of History Speaks, Dr. Roshan Iqbal speaks with Dr. Elliott Bazzano, Associate Professor at Le Moyne College, about Islamophobia, the election of Zohran Mamdani, and what his success means for U.S. Muslims….
John O’Brien. Keeping It Halal: The Everyday Lives of Muslim American Teenage Boys. Princeton University Press, 2017. ISBN: 9780691168821. 216 pages. $29.95. Recent scholarship on Muslims in Western societies faces two shortcomings: first, the existing research…
Keeping It Halal: The Everyday Lives of Muslim American Teenage Boys by John O’Brien. (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2017). ISBN 9780691168821, 216 pp., $29.95 paperback | Reviewed by Hale Inanoglu In his ethnography…
When Columbus landed in the Americas in 1492, he could never have anticipated the spectacle which the city of Chicago would orchestrate in his honor four hundred years later. The World’s Columbian Exposition was designed…