This short piece attempts to come at the current debate on law and religious freedom from two unusual angles. I…
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Elizabeth Hurd on reimagining religious freedom as resistance
Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, co-Guest Editor of the TIF discussion series The politics of religious freedom, reflects on the sometimes paradoxical…
Death in the Middle East: What happens next?
On the 11th anniversary of the September 11, the U.S. Embassy in Cairo, Egypt and U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya…
The secular as space, the secular as process: The 2012 UCSIA summer school
At the end of August, the two of us joined approximately 30 scholars from around the world in Antwerp, Belgium…
Ethno-religious clashes in Myanmar
Last week in Myanmar, ethnic and religious clashes between majority-group Rakhine Buddhists and minority-group Rohingya Muslims left at least a…
Is religion free?
To this stimulating and learned series of posts I cannot add much about the genealogy of religious freedom or its…
Muslim Brotherhood candidate wins Egyptian election
The New York Times reports on the atmosphere in Cairo today, after news came in that Mohamed Morsi is the…
Tunisian modernities
Over at the University of Notre Dame's Contending Modernities blog, Michael Driessen takes lessons from the secular-Islamist negotiation happening in…
“Twin tolerations” today: An interview with Alfred Stepan
Alfred Stepan is Wallace S. Sayre Professor of Government at Columbia University and founder and director of the Center for…
Live online panel on Egypt elections
This Friday, June 15, The Duke Islamic Studies Center's Transcultural Islam Project is co-hosting a panel discussion on the upcoming Egyptian run-off…