Zareena Grewal – By the Dawn’s Early Light: Chris Jackson’s Journey to Islam
We often regard 9/11 as the pivotal moment in which people’s views about Islam and Muslims changed. Notwithstanding the fact that it was indeed a huge moment, the…
Tag: Islamophobia
‘Islamofobie bedreigt mijn Nederlandse identiteit’ – Een verslag van ‘Doe Normaal’
Op maandag 10 april jl. vond aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam een bijeenkomst plaats over de normalisering van islamofobie. De bijeenkomst was georganiseerd door het Collectief tegen Islamofobie…
How does it feel to be a problem? – W.E.B. du Bois on Race and Double Consciousness
What African-American scholar W.E.B. du Bois called the condition of ‘double-consciousness’, the ambivalence and ambiguities that come with a position of liminality, refers not only to being caught…
Bijeenkomst 10 april – ‘Doe Normaal’ – Over de normalisering van islamofobie
Datum: 10 april 2017 Tijd: 16.00 – 18.00 uur Universiteit van Amsterdam Op maandag 10 april van 16:00 uur tot 18:00 organiseert de UvA, afdeling antropologie, in samenwerking…
An Anthropologist at the Women’s March on Washington, Part 2: The Posters
Photo by Alma Gottlieb Women (and some men) with signs, as far as the eye could see. In my first post about the Women’s March of…
Population #ReadIn
“Racism” is such an unwieldy concept. Living in a world in which racism is one of the fundamental building blocks that shapes all our relationships, calling someone racist…
Talking About Arabs: How opinions on Arabs and Muslims are produced in different parts of Europe?
Are Eastern and Central regions of the EU more Islamophobic than its Western part? This was the question that brought together scholars from different European countries to Prague…
Talking About Arabs: How opinions on Arabs and Muslims are produced in different parts of Europe?
Are Eastern and Central regions of the EU more Islamophobic than its Western part? This was the question that brought together scholars from different European countries to Prague…
An Open Letter to My Grandchildren
Dear Dean and Mona, At four years old and ten months old, you are both too young to understand why the grown-ups around you keep talking about…
An Open Letter to My Children
Dear Nathaniel and Hannah, I am sorry that my generation has failed you. We have bequeathed you a world that has too many problems, too much fear, and too much…
Trump’s Muslim Bashing
The Atlantic (June 16) has a powerful piece by Uri Friedman on Donald Trump’s rampant Muslim bashing with responses by six Muslim commentators and scholars. It is well…
Under Surveillance: Islamophobia and Muslim Student Associations
In 2012, the Associated Press released a news report titled “NYPD monitored Muslim students all over Northeast.” In the article, we learn that the New York City police…
Lezing Meld Islamofobie – Islamkritiek, moslimhaat en racisme
Op 21 maart jongstleden presenteerde Meld Islamofobie haar eerste jaarrapport. Onderstaand stuk is de tekst van mijn korte lezing die avond over het begrip islamofobie. Laat me om…
The Brussels attack and liberal Islamophobia
“WICHITA, KS – MARCH 5: A group of Muslim students take selfies before Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump made a speech at a campaign rally on March 5,…
Interview with Edward E. Curtis IV
The goal should be human rights, freedom, and dignity for all, and Black Muslims in the United States have been at the vanguard of this struggle in the…
People of the Book: Why not the Book of Love?
by Daniel Martin Varisco, MENA Tidningen As an undergraduate I attended Wheaton College in Illinois, an interdenominational evangelical Protestant enclave, from which I obtained a quality education. …
Donald Trump and P. T. Barnum
My latest post from Lund…
Commentary Hell
We moderns devour news as if it were a staple food. Gone are the days when one sat down for coffee in the morning with a daily newspaper.…
The Bridge over Islamophobia
John Esposito at the Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding in the Walsh School of Foreign Service has just provided a unique website to chart the pace of islamophobia…
Why Not “Je Suis Lassana”?
Much of the Western world has expressed solidarity with the right to publish offensive cartoons by identifying with the cartoonists at the iconoclastic weekly, Charlie Hebdo, who were…
“Een eiland in een zee van ongeloof”: het activistische verzet van moslims in Nederland, België en Duitsland
“Een eiland in een zee van ongeloof”: het activistische verzet van moslims in Nederland, België en Duitsland Auteurs: Martijn de Koning Ineke Roex Carmen Becker Pim Aarns…
Moslims zijn geen marionetten
Gastauteur: Thijl Sunier ‘Als moslims naar de letter van de wet leven dan zijn ze niet tegen slavernij. Sterker nog, wie de bronnen goed leest weet dat slavernij…