In a recent article, Reuters reported that Nigeria has suspended flights to Saudi Arabia for the Hajj pilgrimage after more…
Nigerian women and the Hajj
Islam
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…
11 years after 9/11
In the days immediately following September 11, 2001, the Social Science Research Council invited a wide range of leading social…
Religious freedom as a binding practice of suspicion
I would like to begin with a famous case in Egypt that, though over a decade and a half old,…
Pakistan and blasphemy
TIF contributor Dr. Ebrahim Moosa recently posted on his blog a statement written by Mawlana Ammar Khan Nasir, editor of the Urdu…
How Muslims view Islam
In a recent post on Foreign Policy, Marc Lynch discusses a Pew Research Center survey which questioned Muslims on their…
Politics of religious freedom in South Africa
Unlike Europe and North America, the discussions in South Africa relating to religious freedom do not center on the extent…
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…
Tunisian modernities
Over at the University of Notre Dame's Contending Modernities blog, Michael Driessen takes lessons from the secular-Islamist negotiation happening in…