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…
Dr. Jonathan A.C. Brown’s new book Slavery & Islam (Oneworld, 2019) reviewed by The Economist. “FOR ANY system of belief that vests ultimate authority in the past, slavery is…
