Faculty Publications

    The American Academy of Religion (AAR) recently announced the 2024 recipients of the Awards for Excellence in the Study of Religion. This annual competition recognizes new scholarly publications that make significant contributions…

The Religion Toolkit: Understanding Religion in the World Today is a clear and comprehensive introduction to the academic study of religions, providing readers an introduction to the history and theories of…

The Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding congratulates Shenila Khoja-Moolji, the Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani Associate Professor of Muslim Societies, for winning the 2024 Nautilus Book Award for her latest book Rebuilding Community: Displaced Women and the…

Alwaleed Center for Muslim Christian Understanding (ACMCU), The Bridge Initiative and the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies (CCAS) at Georgetown University stand in support of courageous university students across the country…

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.

Professor Nader Hashemi, a scholar who has consistently written about democracy and human rights about the Middle East and Islam, wrote a report titled "Women, Life, Freedom: A Human Rights…

ACMCU congratulates Shenila Khoja-Moolji, the Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani Associate Professor of Muslim Societies, for winning the Luce-American Academy for Religion grant for Advancing Public Scholarship!…

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 Book Award!…

It is commonly claimed that Islam is antiblack, even inherently bent on enslaving Black Africans. Western and African critics alike have contended that antiblack racism is in the faith’s very…

No one was prepared for the magnitude of 9/11, which dealt a major blow to Muslim-West relations.