The New York Review of Books' blog recently posted a debate between women's rights groups and Human Rights Watch entitled,…
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“The Rise of the Islamists”
The award-winning documentary radio program, America Abroad, has recently released a new documentary entitled, "The Rise of the Islamists."
Call for papers: CSID annual conference
The organizers of the upcoming annual conference of the Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy, "The Arab Spring:…
Believing in religious freedom
Like a good movie, the story of international religious freedom offers something for everyone. It pits cowardly oppressors against heroic…
What are the uses of religion?
Raising issues central to post-secularism, Ryan Gillespie reviews three distinct recent works---Steven D. Smith's The Disenchantment of Secular Discourse, Terry…
Tunisia’s election: counter-revolution or democratic transition?
Today marks the first anniversary of the self-immolation of a young street seller in Tunisia that sparked the Arab Spring.…
CFP: From Tahrir to Wisconsin
The political theory graduate students of the Cornell Department of Government will host an interdisciplinary graduate student conference, "From Tahrir…
The paradoxes of the re-Islamization of Muslim societies
The 9/11 debate was centered on a single issue: Islam. Osama Bin Laden was taken at his own words by…
Religious liberty, minorities, and Islam: An interview with Saba Mahmood
Saba Mahmood is an anthropologist who teaches at the University of California, Berkeley, and whose work raises challenging questions about…
American evangelicals and the Arab Spring
At Foreign Policy, Molly Worthen examines the sentiments and commitments that inform many American evangelicals' ambivalence towards the democratic possibilities…