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…
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…
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…
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…