America Abroad, the award-winning documentary radio program, has released a new documentary, "The Politics of Faith---The Role of Religion in…
Politics of Faith—The Role of Religion in Divided Societies
Egypt
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…
Understanding resacralization (part 2)
The Rimini Meeting is run almost entirely by unpaid volunteers. Everything from the physical construction and take-down of the arena,…
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…
Understanding resacralization (part 1)
Dominant accounts of the religion-modernity relationship, at least among sociologists of religion in the US, have tended to focus mainly…
The suspicious revolution: An interview with Talal Asad
Not long after his return from Cairo, where he was doing fieldwork, I spoke with Talal Asad at the City…
(In)Visible Copts
At Jadaliyya, Anthony Shenoda reflects on the simultaneous visibility and invisibility of the Coptic Christian community in Egypt.
The Rubicon is in Egypt: An interview with Azza Karam
Azza Karam is the Senior Culture Advisor at the United Nations Population Fund, where she has pioneered efforts to make…
Mamdani on the African uprisings
Mahmood Mamdami places the Egyptian revolution and other protest movements in the historical context of popular struggle in Africa.
Contrasting progress on democracy in Tunisia and Egypt
What are the chances of successful democratic transitions in Tunisia and Egypt? I have just returned from both countries where…