2020: The Niqab Revisited
The pandemic has given rise to a new wave of interest in niqab wearing, a practice at the center of a string of public controversies. While it has previously been dissected from various cultural and…
[Book Review] From Victims to Suspects: Muslim Women Since 9/11 by Shakira Hussein | Reviewed by Hinasahar Muneeruddin
Shakira Hussein, From Victims to Suspects: Muslim Women Since 9/11 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019). 272 pages, hardcover. $30.00; ISBN: 9780300230420. “A Muslim woman can only be one of two things, either uncovered, and…
Hate Groups and Muslim Population Changes in the Fifty States: Does the Presence of Muslims Encourage Hate Group Formation? A Reflection
Recently, I published an article titled, “Hate Groups and Muslim Population Changes in the Fifty States: Does the Presence of Muslims Encourage Hate Group Formation?”, in the peer-reviewed journal, International Journal on Minority and Group…
Becoming US Citizens: Muslims and Christians From the Middle East in US Official Records
At the level of naturalization – the process through which an immigrant becomes an American – there was no discrimination against Muslims as a matter of official policy. Jews, Armenians, Christians, and Muslims who were…