Play Youtube Video “Beyond Timbuktu,” a book talk with Dr. Ousmane Kane In October 2019, Dr. Ousmane Kane presented at ACMCU a book talk on his new book Beyond Timbuktu:…
Play Youtube Video Description: On Wednesday, October 9th, Dr. Muqtedar Khan spoke at ACMCU and gave a presentation on the topics covered in his new book, Islam and Good…
Play Youtube Video Description: In September of 2019, ACMCU presented a book talk featuring Dr. Mohammad Hassan Khalil entitled, “Islam and the New Atheism.” This video showcases that presentation in…
Georgetown University President John J. DeGioia and ACMCU hosted Dato’ Seri Anwar Ibrahim and ACMCU Founding Director Dr. John L. Esposito for a dialogue on governance, contemporary politics, and interfaith…
February 6th, 2019 - Fr. Thomas Michel, S.J., Professor of Religion, Xavier Learning Community, spoke at ACMCU on the Jesuit history within Thailand and the research he has conducted relating…
December 5th, 2018 – Dr. Abbas Jamshidi, Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Maryland, College Park, spoke at ACMCU on the representation of the “other” within Persian literature.
Play Youtube Video November 28th, 2018 – Since 2017, up to a million Turkic Muslim people have been interned in Xinjiang, China in a growing gulag of “re-education” camps explicitly…
Play Youtube Video November 27th, 2018 – Dr. Juan Cole, Professor of History at the University of Michigan, spoke at ACMCU on themes of peace in the Meccan chapters of…
Play Youtube Video October 31st, 2018 – Filmmaker and Al Jazeera America journalist Laila Al-Arian presented her Emmy Award winning documentary, “The Ban: the human cost of Trump’s Travel Ban”…
Play Youtube Video October 31st, 2018 – Gravestones can be used to document and explain the exceptional internal diversity of the Muslim community of southeast Michigan. In reality, this is…
Play Youtube Video October 5th, 2018 – New research has definitively overturned the mistaken notion that the late medieval Islamic world was a period of intellectual stagnation. Particularly in the…
Play Youtube Video October 3rd, 2018 – Dr. Pouya Alimagham is a historian of the modern Middle East. He specializes on Iran, Iraq, and the Levant in the 20th century,…
Play Youtube Video October 2nd, 2018 – Indonesia is experiencing an Islamic renaissance: a flowering of religious ideas, art, literature, architecture, institutions, and intellectual creativity, stimulated by civil freedoms, democracy,…
Play Youtube Video In September 12, of 2018 ACMCU and CCAS co-presented an international panel on the subject of Palestinian Christians in the Holy Land. For this event, ACMCU and…
Play Youtube Video There is an urgent need for more fieldwork in Muslim-Christian relations in Egypt. Too much of reporting on these issues is either ideologically motivated or supported by…
Play Youtube Video Cambridge Analytica, and their parent company SCL Group hit the headlines recently, when, after their work on the Trump campaign, reporting exposed misuse of Facebook data, linked…
Play Youtube Video On April 25th, Dr. John McHugo began by covering the decades following the death of the Prophet Muhammad which ended with civil war engulfing the Muslim community.
Play Youtube Video On Wednesday, April 18 Dr. Erin Stiles presented her research on divorce practices in Zanzibar and the use of khuluu, a judicial mechanism used to initiate divorce…
Play Youtube Video On April 4, 2018, ACMCU adjunct faculty Dr. Nahid Afrose Kabir discussed her research and book entitled Muslim Americans: Debating the Notions of American and Un-American. Kabir…
Play Youtube Video On December 6, ACMCU Visiting Professor Dr. Shireen Hunter discussed her recent book The New Geopolitics of the South Caucasus, which examines the record of the…
