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An online publication of the AbuSulayman Center for Global Islamic Studies at George Mason University

War on Terror

The Legend of Korra’s Zaheer and the Dark Fantasies of the War on Terror

By Sawyer Martin French  //  September 11, 2020September 11, 2020

Avatar: the Last Airbender (ATLA) is an artfully woven story in which victims of genocide and imperialism unite to fight against a global empire. But in the sequel series, The Legend of Korra (TLOK), which…

Framing the Genocide of Bosniak Muslims as ”War on Terror”

By Harun Karčić  //  July 9, 2020July 9, 2020

The Al-Qaeda boogeyman in Bosnia ”10.000 mujahedeen in Bosnia and Herzegovina ready for a new Jihad.” This is how the headline of an article read in a leading Bosnian Serb newspaper in January 2019. It…

[Book Review] From Victims to Suspects: Muslim Women Since 9/11 by Shakira Hussein | Reviewed by Hinasahar Muneeruddin

By Hinasahar Muneeruddin  //  February 19, 2020February 19, 2020

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…

Rise of the Bureaucrat? Changing Religious Authority in Morocco

By Ann Marie Wainscott  //  August 1, 2018

In Morocco, the state has greatly expanded the religious bureaucracy since 2004. There are now institutions that print the Qur’an, teach individuals various Qur’anic recitation styles, and train domestic and foreign imams and other lay…

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