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…
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…
Join ACMCU for a discussion about crafting Shia Muslim childhoods in America with authors of three recently published children’s books: Azmina Dhalla-Shivji and Zaheed Damani, How Can I Tell My…
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.
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.
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…
Elected to the presidency by the Tunisian National Constituent Assembly, President Moncef Marzouki is Tunisia’s first president in modern history to arrive at his position through free and fair elections.
In Episode Five of “Unpacking Islamophobia,” our guest is Kashmiri Muslim journalist, Raqib Hameed Naik, who discusses Hindu nationalism in India and the growing violence and intolerance against the country’s…
Over the course of the twentieth century, Shia Ismaili Muslim communities were repeatedly displaced. How, in the aftermath of these displacements, did they remake their communities? Professor Khoja-Moolji highlights women’s…
In Episode 4 of “Unpacking Islamophobia,” our host Arsalan Iftikhar sits down with Nury Turkel to discuss the China’s ongoing genocide targeting Uyghur and Turkic Muslims in Xinjiang, which includes…
Female Religious Authorities in Shi’i Islam, Past and Present, edited by Mirjam Künkler and Devin J. Stewart, presents the first study, not only in English but also in Middle Eastern…
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 reformists.
This webinar is a conversation between two leading women activists (one Muslim, one Christian) who work at communal, regional, national, and international levels to promote and protect girls’ and women's…
In a discussion on the ongoing genocide and persecution of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, Bridge Initiative’s founding director Dr. Esposito speaks with Dr. Ronan Lee, author of Myanmar’s Rohingya Genocide:…
In this ACMCU event video, Author and Middle East Eye Associate Editor Peter Oborne talks on the topics covered in his new book THE FATE OF ABRAHAM: WHY THE WEST…
ACMCU is pleased to feature leading scholars of Islamic Studies who co-authored Overcoming Orientalism: Essays in Honor of John L. Esposito, edited by Tamara Sonn, a festschrift honoring the work…
Erdoan A. Shipoli has a PhD in Political Science and International Relations and is a sponsored university associate at the Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University. His most…
Aaron Rock-Singer is a historian of the modern Middle East, with a research focus on 20th century Islamic movements and states. He received his B.A. at the University of Pennsylvania,…
