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 relations on Tuesday, February 12, 2019. Play Youtube Video…
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 to Muslim communities found within Northern Thailand.
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. Dr. Abbas Jamshidi recently finished his doctoral degree in Comparative Literature at University of Maryland, College Park. In his dissertation,…
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 intended to re-fashion their identity. Other Muslims in China and abroad, too, have been subjected to intensifying PRC state suspicion…
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 the Qur’an and how best to interpret the noted hostility of the pagan Arabs towards monotheistic preaching. Dr. Juan R.
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” at ACMCU in it’s entirety. This film follows two families in particular who’ve been deeply impacted by thier inabiility to…
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 not a single community but a mosaic of diverse communities, diverse in terms of national, cultural, and even religious sub-groupings.
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 eighteenth century, Muslim scholars from around the world interacted with each other and participated in a shared discourse concerning 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, focusing on such themes as revolutionary and guerrilla movements, imperialism, Political Islam, and post-Islamism. His first published article,“The Iranian…
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, education, and prosperity. This community is more religiously diverse than it has ever been, even though it is threatened by…
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 CCAS hosted three distinguished panelists, whose work and mission to foster a positive dialogue, as well as to promote peace…
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 insufficient data. Dutch sociologist Cornelis Hulsman, will provide examples from his work, including the conversion of Christians toIslam (1995-1996), the…
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 them to ‘Brexit’, unethical conduct in international elections and revealed their relationship to defense propaganda contracts in the West. Dr.
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. This crucial historical background is necessary to understand how Muslims became divided between those who found guidance in the recollections…
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 in East Africa. While khuluu is seen as a legitimate way for a woman to initiate legal separation from her…
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 explored the concept of what it meant to be ‘Un-American’ in the past, referencing how various minority groups have been…
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 three South Caucasian states—Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan since they gained independence 25 years ago. Dr. Hunter highlighted the importance of…
Play Youtube Video On November 16, 2017, Paola Caridi gave a talk on her new book, Jerusalem without God: Portrait of a Cruel City, which draws upon her decade of living and working in the city to explore the complex nature of Jerusalem today. Paola described a once unified…
Play Youtube Video On November 15, 2017, Dr. Lena Salaymeh gave a talk about her book The Beginnings of Islamic Law, as well as her research on Islamic jurisprudence and 19th century European Orientalism. Throughout her presentation, Dr. Salaymeh sought to use the ideas from her book to contest…
