When I first wrote The Fear of Islam: An Introduction to Islamophobia in the West in 2015, I had some doubts about whether it would find an audience. Did scholars, journalists, policy makers, and others…
It has become a ritual: before every national and European election, the far-right is featured in great detail. Being one of the media’s most favorite cash cows, radical right-wing parties have gained huge coverage. Like…
Growing Islamic Consumerism on a Global Scale and South Korea’s Interest in the Halal Industry Due to an increase in the Muslim population and the emergence of value-oriented consumerism especially among educated, affluent Muslim youth,…
Erik Love. Islamophobia and Racism in America. New York: New York University Press, 2017. 272 pages. $28.00 paperback | Reviewed by Hinasahar Muneeruddin What does it mean to “look Muslim” and can it be considered as…
Erik Love, Islamophobia and Racism in America (New York: New York University Press, 2017), 272 pages, paperback $28.00 | Reviewed by Michelle S. Dromgold-Sermen Race scholar Eduardo Bonilla-Silva argues that we are living in an age…
Since the mid-1900s, British Muslim political activism has undergone significant transformations. Yet even in its current manifestation, and despite facing state ambivalence, it shows no sign of abating. In today’s highly charged and polarized political…
Consistent findings from Pew attitude surveys report incredibly high numbers of Hungarians (72 percent), Italians (69 percent), Poles (66 percent), Greeks (65 percent), Spaniards (50 percent), Swedes (35 percent), Dutch (35 percent), Germans (29 percent)…
It was a weird moment: Shortly before the Austrian elections on 15 October this year, candidates of the then-winning parties, Sebastian Kurz of the Conservatives and Heinz-Christian Strache of the Freedom Party, verbally wrestled about…
Corbett. Rosemary. Making Moderate Islam: Sufism, Service, and the “Ground Zero Mosque”. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2017. 204p. $24.95 | Reviewed by Katie Merriman To better understand the challenges and limitations of asserting Muslim life…
It was New Year’s Day 2016, I had received notices that the Freer Gallery in DC would be closing for renovations, so I suggested to my family that we should visit the museum to have…