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Funeral director: Hard to find grave for alleged Boston bomber
Ashley Fantz
05/06/13
CNN
There may not be a single cemetery in Massachusetts or in the entire country that is willing to be Tamerlan Tsarnaev's final resting place, a funeral director told CNN on Monday.

Not 'brainwashed': American women who converted to Islam speak out
JoNel Aleccia
04/26/13
USNEWS on NBCNEWS.com
When an American convert to Islam was revealed as the wife of the dead Boston bombing suspect, Lauren Schreiber wasn’t surprised at what came next.

Stop hounding Muslims and mosques over terrorism: Siddiqui
Haroon Siddiqui
04/04/13
Toronto Star
After CBC identified two young Canadians who were part of hostage-taking in Algerian gas plant, media linked London mosques to the terrorism.

How to write about Muslims
Belen Fernandez
04/02/13
Al Jazeera English
Media depictions of Muslims kill two birds with one stone, justifying oppression at home and imperial devastation abroad.

Gulf Women essay series defines the role of Arab women
Ben East
03/27/13
The National
Gulf Women is a new collection of essays from leading international scholars aiming to understand the history of the Gulf and Arab world – with a focus on its women.

Södertörn University Lecture: "The role of the Media in the shaping of European and US Muslim Identities"
03/12/13
Open lecture arranged by the subject of Study of Religions at the School of Historical and Contemporary Studies, Södertörn University and the British Counsil.

Egypt-Iran relations and the Sunni-Shia power struggle
Lauren Madow
03/06/13
GlobalPost
Could a warmer relationship between the two powers diminish sectarian violence?

Impediments to Normalized U.S.-Iranian Relations
Dr. Shireen Hunter
03/05/13
The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs
For nearly four decades after the 1940s, the United States and Iran were close allies and friends.

Visiting lecturer John Esposito: We “need a global sense of pluralism”
Cherry Crayton
02/14/13
Campbell University
Early in his scholarly career, Georgetown University religion professor John Esposito submitted countless proposals for books and journal articles about Islam to academic publishers.

Radio Tahrir Podcast
Radio Tahrir Podcast
02/01/13
Dr. Yvonne Haddad, Georgetown University professor and specialist in the history of Muslims in the US continues our assessment with BN Aziz on gains and setbacks in our community with today's focus on Muslim women and the new generation.