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In a recent episode of the podcast "Thinking About Religion", ACMCU Director Dr. Jonathan A.C. Brown discusses ways Islamic scholars have grappled with problematic scriptural passages.
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December 28, 2018
In late November, Dr. James Millward, Professor of Inter-Societal History at Georgetown University, presented at ACMCU on China's Muslim Internment Camps and the policies behind them.
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November 30, 2018
Earlier this month, Dr. Paul Salem, President of Middle East Institute gave a presentation on Christian Communities in Lebanon and their complex history.
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November 9, 2018
Dr. Ronald Stockton presented a talk on Muslim Gravestones in Detroit on October 31st here at Georgetown University. His talk was hosted by ACMCU and centered around the significance of burial and gravestone customs within Muslim communities within SouthEastern Michigan.
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Al Jazeera Journalist and Fault Lines Senior Producer, Laila Al-Arian presented a screening of her film, "The Ban" at ACMCU in late October. She also spoke on the topics covered in the film and the importance of journalism.
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October 26, 2018
ACMCU special guest Dr. Zachary Wright presents on medieval Islamic intellectual scholarship and the Sufi movements that emerged during the 18th Century.
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October 16, 2018
Dr. Pouya Alimagham, Historian of the Middle East, MIT addressed topics related to resistance movements within Iran both after the Revolution and during. He also touched on state ideology and popular protests movements.
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October 12, 2018
ACMCU Founding Director Dr. John L Esposito co-published two new books, (Key Islamic Political Actors and Islam and Politics Around the World) with co-author Emad El-Din Shahin in October, 2018.
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October 10, 2018
"John Esposito took on a master’s program and later a PhD – specializing in a strange and unpopular subfield of a subfield – Islam. To contextualize, during the 1960s, Islam wasn’t a hot-button topic like it is now." - Toledo Society
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October 2, 2018
On October 2nd 2018, Dr. Bernard Adeney-Risakotta gave a presentation at Georgetown University on Religion and Democracy in Indonesia entitled, "Living in a Sacred Cosmos". This video is a full edited version of his presentation and the following Q&A presented by ACMCU.
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September 19, 2018
ACMCU and CCAS presented the Palestinian Christians in the Holy Land Panel on September 12, 2018 at Copley Formal Lounge on the Georgetown University Campus. Guest panelists spoke on topics of Palestinian rights in the Holy Land as well as on the history of Christianity in the region. Panelists Included: Bishop Dr. Munib A. Younan, Dr. James Zogby, Todd Deatherage, and Fr. Drew Christiansen.
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Join Campus Ministry and our special guest, the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding (ACMCU), for Chaplains' Tea! We'll bring the tea and snacks, you bring the conversation. Immediately after, please join us for our weekly Prayer for Peace and Justice at 3:50 p.m.
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August 8, 2018
By Robert Shine | NCR "Earlier this year while on a train in Europe, I sat down across from an Arabic-looking man who began reading the Quran. My immediate first reaction was apprehension and fear. My immediate second reaction was to check my implicit yet real bias for what it was, Islamophobia."
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[ACMCU Publications] Dr. Elisabeth Mehl Greene, visiting researcher at ACMCU, was featured this month in the Summer edition of The Mizna journal.
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July 18, 2018
By Khairudin Aljunied. "The successful diffusion and continuous vitality of Islam in the Malay World is partly attributed to the rapid expansion of mosques in all corners of the region."
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July 16, 2018
ACMCU Founding Director John L. Esposito and "Sharia: What Everyone Needs to Know" co-author Natana DeLong-Bas discuss the myths and modern realities of Sharia in a blog entry showcased within Oxford University Press.
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June 28, 2018
By ACMCU Senior Fellow Dr. Imtiyaz Yusuf. I heard about the case of the Arakan Muslims some thirty years ago, when few people knew about
them. The first ever well-documented information and research about the Rohingya, who were
described as insurgents, was done by an Israeli diplomat named Moshe Yegar.
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June 15, 2018
On April 18, 2018, Dr. John L. Esposito, founding Director of the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, received an honorary doctorate from the Universidad Pontificia Comillas, Madrid. After receiving his honors, Dr. Esposito gave a brief address to those in attendance on his work and life.
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May 29, 2018
By Shireen Hunter. The victory of the electoral list supported by Muqtada al-Sadr called Sairoon has led to speculation about the future orientation of Iraq in regard to its regional and international ties.
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May 10, 2018
Alberto Priego, International Relations professor at Comillas Pontifical University, interviews John L. Esposito on the occasion of his appointment as Doctor Honoris Causa.
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May 9, 2018
By Shireen Hunter. The day that everyone was dreading arrived yesterday when President Trump announced that the United States will no longer adhere to the Iran nuclear deal (Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action or JCPOA).
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April 24, 2018
By Shireen Hunter. Throughout the last seven decades, Iran’s direct or indirect involvement in Middle-East-related issues has been a source of difficulties for its foreign relations and domestic politics.
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April 18, 2018
Featuring interview with ACMCU Founding Director and Professor John L. Esposito. Start watching at 09:30 to see the interview.
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April 12, 2018
Featuring ACMCU Education Outreach Coordinator Susan Douglass. The North Kingstown School District’s Central Administration Building hosted a day-long event focused on understanding Islam in America April 5, culminating in a town hall gathering that featured speakers from across the globe.
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March 19, 2018
Feauting Khairudin Aljunied. What was the Jabidah Massacre? “Considered by many as the founding moment of Muslim separatism in Mindanao, the Jabidah massacre, which took place on Corregidor Island, involved the killing of Muslim trainees who were being prepared by the Philippine military in 1967 and 1968 to infiltrate and sabotage neighboring Sabah.”
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March 12, 2018
By Shireen Hunter. Popular demonstrations in Iran at the end of 2017 reflected economic and other grievances along with a growing frustration and impatience with the Islamic system’s shortcomings. However, the demonstrations also revealed deep cultural cleavages in Iranian society.
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March 7, 2018
By Jonathan Brown. What is the fate of non-Muslims after death? This essay lays out three different answers that Muslims have proposed regarding non-Muslims who have had the message of Islam reliably presented to them.
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February 22, 2018
By Shireen Hunter. Following the end of World War II, Middle Eastern countries consolidated their state structures. By contrast, over the last two decades, those structures have largely been dismantled.
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January 29, 2018
Gallery Talk with Dr. Jonathan Brown on the Art of the Qur’an Smithsonian Sackler Gallery of Art.
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February 6, 2018
Featuring Jonathan Brown. A common parameter used in journalism to assess whether or not Islam is moderate is the absence or presence of Sharia.
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January 23, 2018
Featuring John L. Esposito. A White House senior adviser at the Department of Homeland Security once said that “true” Muslims can’t peacefully “coexist” or “mingle with other faiths,” it was revealed in a report this week.
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January 16, 2018
Featuring Shireen Hunter. A major criticism of Trump and other detractors of the JCPOA has been that it does not limit Iran's ability to resume its nuclear program beyond 2025. This close, they insist, defeats the purpose of the JCPOA that is to prevent Iran from acquiring the capacity to produce a nuclear device
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January 15, 2018
Featuring John L. Esposito. According to the Pew Research Center, Muslims will become the second largest religious group in the US by 2040.
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January 3, 2018
Featuring Shireen Hunter. Shireen Tahmaasb Hunter tells the Tehran Times that that “The new U.S. strategy only sets out the broad outlines of American priorities, which in fact are not much different from those of previous administrations, or for that matter any other nation, namely security and economic prosperity.”
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January 2, 2018
By Shireen Hunter. Iran’s leadership, especially the hardliners, has attributed the latest protests in several major Iranian cities, including the capital Tehran, to plots by the enemies of Islam and the Iranian Revolution, particularly America, Israel, and Saudi Arabia.
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December 18, 2017
By Shireen Hunter. What makes Iran’s situation different—and the risk of war higher—is the existence of both a regional and a domestic U.S. lobby in favor of an American attack on Iran.
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November 1, 2017
By Khairudin Aljunied. University of Chicago Press, History of Religions 57, no. 2 (November 2017): 107-128.
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December 1, 2017
Featuring John L. Esposito. The Noble Quran is the Book of Allah, and Prophet Muhammad (SAW) is the person through whom that Book came to humanity, and his words and deeds are the first and most important commentary and explanation on it.
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November 29, 2017
By Mehdi Hasan. President Trump has staffed his administration with hawks who believe that the road to solving the Middle East’s problems runs through Tehran.
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November 21, 2017
By Mehdi Hasan. Speaking over the weekend, Gen. John Hyten, commander of the U.S. Strategic Command, or STRATCOM, which is responsible for nuclear deterrence, revealed what he would do if he were ordered to carry out a nuclear strike.
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November 18, 2017
Featuring John O. Voll. “The Bible was probably the most visible and most clearly articulated expression of Middle-Eastern-style monotheism and therefore it helped to shape the vocabulary that was used in the Koran.”
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November 17, 2017
Featuring Shireen Hunter. "The Saudis are the greatest sponsor of terrorism, and they have been. Saudi ideology has destroyed the Muslim world," says Hunter who is also the author of Iran's Foreign Policy in the Post-Soviet Era.
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November 14, 2017
Written by Jonathan Brown. The presumption of innocence for the accused is a central principle in both Muslim and American law.
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November 6, 2017
By Mehdi Hasan. Who says Donald Trump doesn’t keep his promises?
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November 1, 2017
By Mehdi Hasan. The party of Lincoln is now very much the party of Trump.
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October 17, 2017
Written by Shireen Hunter. In his speech describing America’s new approach towards Iran, Donald Trump accused it of responsibility for just about all of the ills of the Middle East and South West Asia.
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October 16, 2017
Featuring Jonathan Brown. How can we reconcile centuries-old texts and rulings of classical scholars with our current context?
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October 16, 2017
Featuring Jonathan Brown. A Yaqeen Institute audiobook reading.
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October 13, 2017
Featuring John L. Esposito and ACMCU. People today still need to hear document's message that Christians, Muslims share two great commandments.
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October 5, 2017
Featuring John L. Esposito. The event aimed to raise awareness of the recent development of Islamophobia, and dispel potential misconceptions about the topic.
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October 2, 2017
Featuring Shireen Hunter. When the issue of a referendum in Kurdistan on its eventual independence from Iraq emerged, Iran expressed its concerns about the disintegrative dynamics that this act could set in motion not just in Iraq but throughout the region.
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September 1, 2017
Featuring Shireen Hunter. “The United States, despite its great influence has never been able to exercise hegemony,” Shireen Hunter tells the Tehran Times.
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July 5, 2017
Written by Jonathan A.C. Brown. The Shariah consists of some laws that remain the same regardless of changing circumstances and others that change with them.
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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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April 27, 2017
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.
