By Stefanie Van de Peer Negotiating Dissidence: The Pioneering Women of Arab Documentary is publishing this month, and it’s a significant…
Category: Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies
By Tahir Abbas Turkey is a beguiling country. It straddles one of the most important geopolitical fault lines in the…
By Necati Polat Who are the Gülenists ostensibly behind the failed Turkey coup of last July, when, for the first time…
By J.N.C Hill The start of the Arab Spring has raised numerous searching questions about the study of the Maghreb….
“There are Muslims in China? I didn’t know that.” Yes, indeed, there are—possibly as many as 25-30 million souls—and they…
By Deanna Ferree Womack Images of Islam abound these days, and many of them are troubling. Those who speak loudly…
Written by Ghada Karmi, this extract is one of a hundred featured in Being Palestinian: Personal Reflections on Palestinian Identity in…
The collapse of the Ottoman empire in the wake of the First World War a century ago did not merely…
So when will Islam undergo a reformation? When will Muslims catch up with modernity and join the 21st century? Why…
Western Europe experienced the immigration of people from a Muslim background after World War II who settled in countries like…