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June 19, 2017
Featuring Jonathan A.C. Brown. As with so many aspects of Islam, some non-Muslims criticize "Sharia law" without really knowing the first thing about it.
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June 11, 2017
Featuring Shireen Hunter. The victory in the recent presidential election in Iran raises many questions in the context of domestic and foreign policy.
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June 8, 2017
Featuring John L. Esposito and Karen Armstrong. Some of the world's leading experts on the Quran and Islam visited Scene HumSam on March 13 and 14 in conjunction with the release of the newest issue of Samtiden with special focus on the Quran.
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Featuring John L. Esposito. Dawn caught up with Mr Esposito in Islamabad to discuss his work.
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May 22, 2017
Lehigh’s 149th Baccalaureate Service featured an address by John L. Esposito, a leading American expert on Islam, and discussions of world religious traditions by student adherents of those faiths.
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April 30, 2017
ACMCU Visiting Researcher Dr. Nahid Afrose Kabir's article, "A reference work for our times" has been published in the UNESCO magazine, COURIER.
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March 19, 2017
Featuring Shireen Hunter. TEHRAN - Shireen Tahmaasb Hunter, a professor of political science at Georgetown University, tells the Tehran Times that that “the most important event in the world” in the Iranian calendar year 1395, which ends on March 20, “was the election of Donald Trump to the presidency of the United States."
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March 16, 2017
Featuring ACMCU Director Jonathan A.C. Brown. A well-funded network is trying to strip the right to speak away from American Muslims and fanning the politics of fear.
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March 13, 2017
Featuring John L. Esposito, University of Oslo. Some of the world's leading experts on the Quran and Islam spoke at the Scene HumSam on March 13 and 14 in conjunction with the release of the newest issue of Samtiden, which has the Quran as its main focus.
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March 9, 2017
Written by Engy Abdelkader. On March 6th, Trump replaced the original ban with a new one that not only excludes immigrants from six Muslim majority countries but also requires the government to collect data surrounding the frequency of “honor killings” in the U.S.
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January 18, 2017
Written by John L. Esposito. On January 11, 2017, Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz introduced a bill to designate the Egypt-based Muslim Brotherhood a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO). This is not Cruz’s first attempt to see the Muslim Brotherhood added to the U.S.’s list of FTOs.
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January 12, 2017
Written by Jonathan Brown. Often the only things people in the West associate with Islam are stoning and hand chopping.
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October 29, 2016
Written by Engy Abdelkader. Contemporary references to “radical Islam” generally trigger associations with terrorism perpetrated by non-state actors or organizations such as ISIS and al-Qaeda.
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October 17, 2016
Written by Engy Abdelkader. This October, also known as National Bullying Prevention Month, advocates, educators and parents are working to raise awareness about trends in bullying around the country.
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September 27, 2016
Featuring Engy Abdelkader. In a time of rising Islamophobia and anti-Muslim bias, the Tennessee State Board of Education is poised to approve new social studies standards for middle schoolers that would dramatically reduce instruction on Islam.
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August 1, 2016
Written by Engy Abdelkader. This article engages in a descriptive, normative and comparative analysis of contemporary religious freedom challenges, measured by official restrictions and social hostilities, confronting Muslim minority communities in five European countries including, France, United Kingdom, Germany, Netherlands and Sweden.
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September 16, 2016
As anti-Muslim violence persists during a volatile presidential election cycle, at least one Muslim woman recently won our nation’s hearts and minds: Duke grad and Olympian fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad.
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August 5, 2016
Written by Engy Abdelkader. Increasingly, in the court of public opinion, an attacker’s race and religion is more likely to determine whether a violent attack constitutes terrorism than legal definitions.
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July 28, 2016
Written by Kristin Sekerci. Pope Francis has stated that the ‘world is at war’ following the series of recent terrorist attacks in France and Germany, including the murder of the Catholic priest Jacques Hamel on 26 July.
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July 5, 2016
Featuring Jonathan A.C. Brown. Monday's bombing in the Saudi city of Medina stands out, even among the wave of terrorist attacks in recent days.
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July 3, 2016
Featuring Jonathan A.C. Brown. As the start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan approached, jihadist propagandists told their followers that it was a good time to kill people.
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June 29, 2016
Written by Engy Abdelkader. In the wake of the mass shooting in Orlando, former U.S. Secretary of State and presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton delivered a speech on national security.
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June 28, 2016
Written by Engy Abdelkader. Texan Senator, and former Republican presidential candidate, Ted Cruz held a congressional hearing today, Tuesday, June 28th, examining federal agency responses to “radical Islam.” The mass shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando revived debate about the terminology we use to describe violent extremism.
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June 16, 2016
Featuring John L. Esposito. Interfaith Voices take stock of the political spat over the phrase "radical Islam," and speak with a documentary filmmaker who values both his LGBTQ and Muslim identities.
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May 2, 2016
This report highlights trends and patterns surrounding Islamophobia since the start of the 2016 U.S. presidential election cycle. It does so in the broader context of hatred, violence and social hostilities confronting Muslims as a minority faith group in contemporary America and with a particular focus on acts and threats of violence.
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February 14, 2016
The second part of a two-part interview with one of the foremost scholars on Islam and the West, Professor John Esposito.
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February 7, 2016
Tonight is the first in a two-part interview with one of the world's foremost scholars on Islam and the West, Professor John Esposito.
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February 4, 2016
If September 11 seemed to pose a challenge to interfaith understanding, the subsequent years have doubled that threat. We have seen dramatic coverage of Muslim fundamentalist movements and powerful demonstrations of what appears to be faith-based terror by the Islamic State in the Levant or ISIL – with videos of beheadings, stories of ritual rape and calls to “kill the infidels.”
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January 20, 2016
In conversation with Habib El Mallouki, the renowned US Islam scholar John Louis Esposito talks about burgeoning Islamophobic and right-wing populist tendencies in Europe and the US as a consequence of the terrorist activities of radical Islamist groups
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December 27, 2015
The horrific attacks in Paris and San Bernardino have captured headlines and triggered responses from journalists, politicians, and religious leaders.
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December 2, 2015
December 2, 2015. Radio interview with host Ben Fordham.
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November 29, 2015
Ahead of a major conference on radicalisation in Australia, Professor of Religion and Islamic Studies at Georgetown University, US, John Esposito says terrorist groups use religion to push their political campaign.
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December 8, 2015
Al Jazeera interview, aired on Dec 8, 2015. Dr. John L. Esposito discusses rise of Islamophobia and Donald Trump.
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November 19, 2015
Featuring Dr. Jonathan Brown. Recent tragedies throughout the world – including in Paris, but also in Beirut, Sinai, Baghdad and Nigeria – have been linked to Muslim extremists.
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October 27, 2015
In this interview, Professor Esposito talks to OnIslam.net about his new center, appropriately titled Bridges, the media and public perceptions, as well as the latest controversies surrounding Bill Carson’s recent comments.
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August 13, 2015
Features John L. Esposito. When Egypt's leader Abdel Fattah el-Sisi wanted to address his nation on the future of Islam earlier this year, the venue was an obvious one: al-Azhar University, Cairo's world-renowned center of Islamic scholarship.
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May 22, 2015
Center for Middle East Studies Director Nader Hashemi hosts a discussion with Egyptian political scientist Emad Shahin, a recent Carnegie Centennial Visiting Fellow with the center.
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April 26, 2015
ACMCU Distinguished Scholar in Residence Amb. Ebrahim Rasool speaks at "For the Love of Tomorrow - Peace: The Challenge for a New Paradigm"
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May 21, 2015
As stunning and outrageous as the recent mass trial and death sentences handed down for Muhammad Morsi - Egypt's first democratically elected president - and dozens of leading members of his outlawed Freedom and Justice Party are, they come as no surprise. - See more at: http://www.middleeasteye.net/columns/egypt-terror-name-state-security-1273619807#sthash.6FOtotya.dpuf
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February 16, 2015
John O. Voll, emeritus from Georgetown University, Washington DC, discussed the concepts of contemporary Muslim scholars and intellectuals vis a vis the question of secularity, nation-state and modernity.
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January 27, 2015
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.
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January 26, 2015
Since Duke's decision last week to not broadcast the call to prayer from its chapel steeple -- prompted by Islamophobic rhetoric and threats against Duke's Muslim community -- the national discussion around the incident has centered around questions of pluralism and religion in the public space.
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January 24, 2015
Ahistorical portrayals of the Arab uprisings fail to capture the political transformations afoot – and worse, perpetuate a false need for security and stability when institutional reform is the solution.
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January 21, 2015
A conversation with John Esposito of the Georgetown Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding
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January 15, 2015
Thursday on “The Alan Colmes Show,” Alan spoke with Dr. John Esposito, Professor of Religion and International Affairs And Of Islamic Studies at Georgetown University about the controversy surrounding President Obama not wanting to label the Charlie Hebdo attack as an act of radical Islamic terrorism.
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January 13, 2015
The slaughter of French journalists as well as French Jews and Muslims by terrorists is unconscionable and has rightly provoked outrage.
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January 12, 2015
The attack on the offices of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, by Muslim extremists reportedly affiliated with or sympathizing with al-Qaeda, is symptomatic of the many ills afflicting Muslim immigrant communities in France and other European countries.
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January 9, 2015
Muslims the world over have strongly condemned Wednesday’s terrorist attack against the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, in which 12 people were killed by masked gunmen.
