Over at ISLAMiCommentary, TIF contributor Mbaye Lo sees a clear disconnect and calls for a retrospective analysis in the wake…
The discourse of Islamic militancy
Middle East
A postcolonial genealogy of secularism and sexuality
A public lecture recently delivered by Saba Mahmood at the London School of Economics entitled "Secularism, Religion and Sexuality: A Postcolonial Genealogy"…
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…
Egypt at the crossroads
Mohamed Morsi was declared President of Egypt little more than two weeks ago. Challenger and former President Hosni Mubarak’s last…
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…
The end of postcolonialism
The London-based publisher Zed Books recently released Hamid Dabashi's The Arab Spring: The End of Postcolonialism (distributed in the U.S. by Macmillan).
Misogyny and the Muslim woman
At The Atlantic, Max Fisher considers the sources of misogyny in the Middle East in light of recent conversations surrounding…
“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."
Believing in religious freedom
Like a good movie, the story of international religious freedom offers something for everyone. It pits cowardly oppressors against heroic…
Qatar hosts interfaith dialogue conference
he Doha International Center for Interfaith Dialogue is currently hosting its ninth annual conference on interfaith dialogue from October 24-26.