The Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understandingย congratulatesย Shenila Khoja-Moolji,ย the Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani Associate Professor of Muslim Societies, for winningย the 2024 Nautilus Bookย Awardย for her latest book Rebuilding Community: Displaced Women and the…
ACMCU Honors the life and legacy of Distinguished University Professor and Founding Director Dr. John L. Esposito as this year's recipient of the annual Building Bridges Awards. ACMCU hosts distinguished…
Alwaleed Center for Muslim Christian Understanding (ACMCU), The Bridge Initiative and the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies (CCAS)ย at Georgetown University stand in support of courageous university students across the country…
ACMCU, in partnership with the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies and the African Studies Program, hosted a conversation with University of California Berkeley Professor of Middle East History and Chancellorโs…
ACMCU Honors the Life, Career, and Legacy of ACMCU Founding Director and Distinguished University Professor John L. Esposito. This video was co-produced and narrated by John's wife Jean Esposito and…
Middle East Studies is in peril. Today, we are facing the biggest threat to academic freedom since the founding of the Association of American University Professors (AAUP) in 1915.
ACMCU, CCAS, and The African Studies Program of Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service welcomed Dr. Tareq Baconi from Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network to give a lecture on the…
The local volunteer organization Ceasefire Now Roaring Fork Valley has invited author, commentator and Middle East expert Dr. Nader Hashemi to speak on โIsrael-Gaza War: Myths vs. Realitiesโ at the…
Professor John Esposito talks to us about studying Islam, Islamophobia in the US, and what Arabs inside and outside of the Arab region misunderstand about Islam.
Join ACMCU for a discussion about crafting Shia Muslim childhoods in America with authors of three recently published childrenโs books: Azmina Dhalla-Shivji and Zaheed Damani, How Can I Tell My…
In partnership with the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies (CCAS), Georgetown University Qatar, and The Georgetown University African Studies Program, ACMCU will host a four part series focused on the…
The Georgetown professor of Middle East and Islamic politics talks of hating his parentsโ return to Iran after the 1979 revolution โ and crediting it with his lifeโs mission of…
In this talk about their new book, Muslims on the Margins: Creating Queer Religious Community in North America (NYU Press, 2023), Professor Katrina Daly Thompson tells the story of progressive…
In this talk, Tazeen M. Ali discusses her recent book The Women's Mosque of America: Authority & Community in US Islam, published with NYU Press in November 2022.
Recite Al Jazeera's guest is Nader Hashemi, distinguished professor of Islamic studies and director of the Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University in Washington.
In the latest developments on the Israel-Hamas war, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu rules out a ceasefire with Hamas, despite international pressure. And slow progress being made with extracting hostages…
Join ACMCU, The MENA Forum, Georgetown University Qatar, and the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies CCAS) in welcoming Co-editor of Jadaliyya Magazine Mouin Rabbani for a conversation on the state…
ACMCU, the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies (CCAS), and the Georgetown University MENA Forum invite you to a conversation with author, journalist, and MENA scholar Peter Beinart.
CBC Radio's "All in A Day" news program interviews ACMCU Director Dr. Nader Hashemi on the current state of affairs in relation to Israel's war against Hamas and the impact…
In this special event, co-sponsored by CCAS, Democracy for the Arab World Now, and the MENA Forum, ACMCU hosts guest speaker and award winning Haaretz journalist Amira Hass to talk…