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Gender Studies
July 26, 2022
Tying the Knot
A Feminist/Womanist guide to Muslim Marriage in America
Kecia Ali
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Iqra Shagufta Cheema
Are you a born, revert, or convert Muslim who is trying to navigate the puzzle that is Muslim marriage in America? Do you want an egalitarian and fair Muslim marriage …
Islamic Studies
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Interviews with scholars of Islam about their new books.
The Future of . . . with Owen Bennett-Jones
July 26, 2022
The Future of Al Qaeda
A Discussion with Nelly Lahoud
Nelly Lahoud
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Owen Bennett-Jones
The 9/11 attacks mean Al Qaeda will always have a place in history. But it that it? Or might it have the capacity to endure? Its striking that the UN …
On Religion
July 25, 2022
On Pious Fashion and Muslim Women
A Discussion with Liz Bucar
Liz Bucar
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Gregory Soden
Dr. Liz Bucar is a professor in the department of philosophy and religion and Dean’s Leadership Fellow at Northeastern University in Boston. Dr. Bucar is the author of the award-winning …
Islamic Studies
July 15, 2022
I Refuse to Condemn
Resisting Racism in Times of National Security
Asim Qureshi
Hosted by
Kristian Petersen
In times of heightened national security, scholars and activists from the communities under suspicion often attempt to alert the public to the more complex stories behind the headlines. But when …
Environmental Studies
July 14, 2022
Climate Politics and the Power of Religion
Evan Berry
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Brady McCartney
How does our faith affect how we think about and respond to climate change? Climate Politics and the Power of Religion (Indiana University Press, 2022) is an edited collection that explores …
Islamic Studies
July 8, 2022
The Sufi Saint of Jam
History, Religion and Politics of a Sunni Shrine in Shi'i Iran
Shivan Mahendrarajah
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Shehnaz Haqqani
Shivan Mahendrarajah’s book, The Sufi Saint of Jam: History, Religion, and Politics of a Sunni Shrine in Shi‘i Iran (Cambridge UP, 2021), which explores the history and politics of Ahmad-i-Jam’s …
Van Leer Institute Series on Ideas with Renee Garfinkel
July 7, 2022
How Religion Evolved
And Why It Endures
Robin Dunbar
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Renee Garfinkel
What is the evolutionary purpose of religion, and are some individuals more inclined than others to be religious? Our species diverged from the great apes six to eight million years …
Performing Arts
July 6, 2022
In a Clear Concise Arabic Tongue
Yussef El Guindi
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Andy Boyd
Yussef El Guindi's In a Clear Concise Arabic Tongue (Broadway Play Publishing, 2021) collects short plays and monologues from almost twenty years of this exciting playwright's career. Guindi writes mainly about Arab and …
South Asian Studies
July 5, 2022
Bengal Muslims and Colonial Education, 1854–1947
A Study of Curriculum, Educational Institutions, and Communal Politics
Nilanjana Paul
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Bekeh Utietiang
In this episode, Dr. Nilanjana Paul of the University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley speaks about her new monograph, Bengal Muslims and Colonial Education, 1854-1947: A Study of Curriculum, Educational …
Jewish Studies
July 4, 2022
Recording History
Jews, Muslims, and Music Across Twentieth-Century North Africa
Christopher Silver
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Avery Weinman
Recording History: Jews, Muslims, and Music Across Twentieth-Century North Africa (Stanford UP, 2022) offers a new history of twentieth-century North Africa, one that gives voice to the musicians who defined …
Islamic Studies
July 1, 2022
The Unfinished History of the Iran-Iraq War
Faith, Firepower, and Iran's Revolutionary Guards
Annie Tracy Samuel
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SherAli Tareen
The Unfinished History of the Iran-Iraq War: Faith, Firepower, and Iran’s Revolutionary Guards (Cambridge UP, 2021) represents a fascinating and carefully documented intellectual history of how Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps …
National Security
June 30, 2022
Home, Land, Security
Deradicalization and the Journey Back from Extremism
Carla Power
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Miranda Melcher
In the Pulitzer Prize finalist book Home, Land, Security: Deradicalisation and the Journey Back from Extremism (One World, 2021), Carla Power explores: what are the roots of radicalism? Journalist Carla …
Anthropology
June 29, 2022
Queer Companions
Religion, Public Intimacy, and Saintly Affects in Pakistan
Omar Kasmani
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Mathew Gagné
In Queer Companions: Religion, Public Intimacy, and Saintly Affects in Pakistan (Duke UP, 2022), Omar Kasmani theorizes saintly intimacy and the construction of queer social relations at Pakistan's most important …
Van Leer Institute Series on Ideas with Renee Garfinkel
June 27, 2022
Culturally Competent Health Care, Equality in Health Care
The Case of Muslims and Jews in the UK
Ben Kasstan
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Renee Garfinkel
The health care sector frequently emphasizes “Cultural competence”, an elastic concept that stretches from the simplest recognition of diversity of patient populations, to include policy implications of patients’ overall worldviews …
Middle Eastern Studies
June 24, 2022
Nine Quarters of Jerusalem
A New Biography of the Old City
Matthew Teller
Hosted by
Roberto Mazza
In Jerusalem, what you see and what is true are two different things. Maps divide the walled Old City into four quarters, yet that division doesn’t reflect the reality of …
Biography
June 24, 2022
German, Jew, Muslim, Gay
The Life and Times of Hugo Marcus
Marc David Baer
Hosted by
Armanc Yildiz
Hugo Marcus (1880–1966) was a man of many names and many identities. Born a German Jew, he converted to Islam and took the name Hamid, becoming one of the most …
Middle Eastern Studies
June 23, 2022
The Fate of Abraham
Why the West is Wrong about Islam
Peter Oborne
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James M. Dorsey
Peter Oborne’s The Fate of Abraham: Why the West is Wrong about Islam (Simon and Schuster 2022) is as much a history of US, British, and French attitudes towards Islam …
Critical Theory
June 22, 2022
The Homoerotics of Orientalism
Joseph A. Boone
Hosted by
Morteza Hajizadeh
One of the largely untold stories of Orientalism is the degree to which the Middle East has been associated with "deviant" male homosexuality by scores of Western travelers, historians, writers …
African Studies
June 21, 2022
Shari'a, Inshallah
Finding God in Somali Legal Politics
Mark Fathi Massoud
Hosted by
Sara Katz
Western analysts have long denigrated Islamic states as antagonistic, even antithetical, to the rule of law. Mark Fathi Massoud tells a different story: for nearly 150 years, the Somali people …
Policing, Incarceration, and Reform
June 16, 2022
The Suspect
Counterterrorism, Islam and the Security State
Rizwaan Sabir
Hosted by
Catriona Gold
What impact has two decades' worth of policing and counterterrorism had on the state of mind of Muslims in Britain? In The Suspect: Counterterrorism, Islam, and the Security State (Pluto …
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