Category: News
276 Articles
- Faculty Publications
Overcoming Orientalism
ACMCU is pleased to announce the publication of a Festschrift honoring our founding director, Dr. John L.…
January 1, 2023
- The Bridge Initiative
Western Double Standards & 2022 Fifa Qatar World Cup
The recent controversies surrounding the 2022 FIFA World Cup revolve around an ongoing orientalist lens where Western pundits still continue to view the greater Muslim world…
December 12, 2022
- Faculty Publications
- News
Professor Khoja-Moolji wins award for new book: Sovereign Attachments
ACMCU congratulates Shenila Khoja-Moolji, the Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani Associate Professor of Muslim Societies, for winning the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2022…
December 5, 2022
- The Bridge Initiative
On The Politicization of Muslim Women’s Bodies
The politicization of women’s bodies has been a fixture in nation-building. Throughout history, women’s bodies have been used as political and ideological battlegrounds, upon…
December 1, 2022
- The Bridge Initiative
Factsheet: Ednan Aslan
IMPACT: Ednan Aslan is a Turkish-German Professor of Islamic Religious Education at the University of Vienna in Austria. Aslan is frequently interviewed by mainstream media as an…
November 28, 2022
- The Bridge Initiative
Criminalizing Muslim Agency in Europe: The Case of ‘Political Islam’ in Austria, Germany, and France
This article discusses the emergence of a discourse on ‘political Islam’ in the policy circles of European elites. It interprets this discourse on one hand as a manifestation of…
November 18, 2022
- The Bridge Initiative
India’a 2022 Anti-Muslim Yearbook: Bollywood, Bigotry & Hijab Bans
India’s movie industry known as “Bollywood” has cemented itself as the world’s leading film market when it comes to selling seats (2 billion tickets sold annually). Even though…
November 7, 2022
- The Bridge Initiative
Please Don’t let Islamophobia Co-Opt Hijab Protests
In my nearly two decades as an international human rights lawyer, I have rarely seen stranger political bedfellows than watching anti-Muslim forces cheering pro-democracy…
November 4, 2022
- The Bridge Initiative
Is a Genocide of Muslims Underway in India?
Over the past decade, India has experienced a dangerous rise in Islamophobia. There are near daily episodes of harassment, public beatings and mob assaults, destruction of…
October 31, 2022
- Videos
Iran Takes a Conservative Turn
In 2018, Donald Trump withdrew from the JCPOA and adopted a policy of maximum pressure. While Iran continued to observe the JCPOA, the country's economy suffered, as did Iranian…
October 28, 2022