Can we have an honest conversation; Yemeni to American?

(Allison Kam, November 18, 2015, writing on Facebook): Saturday morning I woke up at 4:45am to go to Eyüp Sultan Mosque to pray with my new Turkish friends...

The status of LGBTQ rights in the Muslim world today is perplexing given that Islamic history is characterized by its relative tolerance of sexual diversity and same-sex desire.

With the landmark Iran nuclear agreement signed this past summer, there is increasing hope in scholarly circles that American researchers & students can engage more with a country that has not had diplomatic relations with the U.S. for more than 30..

Islam is a Black American. How would this understanding complicate the discussion about Islam in America right now? How would it complicate our understanding of the Black Lives Matter movement?

Professor Michael Sells visited Duke for two talks; “Translator of Desires” — a poetry reading of the Islamic mystic Abu Bakr ibn al-Arabi; and a workshop on the Qur’an and its listeners. Student Abdul Latif interviewed him.

by PETER COOKE for ISLAMiCommentary on OCTOBER 20, 2015: My first experience working face to face with refugees was last fall in Durham, with the Univ

The conflicts to which military personnel are deployed are becoming continually more convoluted and paradoxical. What motivates young men and women to join the military in a world that is everything but stable?

From the news headlines over the past year you’d think that the news about Muslims mainly consists of ISIS, Charlie Hebdo, Qur’an controversies, the occasional Muslim holiday, and lately the bigoted opinions of some presidential candidates.

"A program called Critical Muslim Studies, an intensive two-week summer school, convened in Granada in early June. My biggest take-away — that knowledge and education as we know it was shaped primarily by the colonialist West ..."

Negative depictions of Muslims in French-language comics have had a long history in France. Eliza Bourque Dandridge, a doctoral student at Duke focuses on researching these depictions in bandes dessinées (BD), French-language comic books...

A scholar's response to Reza Aslan and Hasan Minhaj’s “Open Letter to American Muslims on Same Sex Marriage”

“Is psychoanalysis possible in the Islamic Republic of Iran?” This is the question that Gohar Homayounpour poses to herself, and to us, at the beginning of this memoir of displacement, nostalgia, love, and pain.

In a meeting with Latin American Muslim leaders last month Turkish President Erdogan claimed that Muslims discovered the Americas centuries before Columbus. This claim is not new.

Is Sigmund Freud a stranger to the robust intellectual scenes of the modern Middle East? Is there mutual ignorance between Islam and psychoanalysis? Do only secular Arab thinkers invoke Western discourses of suspicion, such as psychoanalysis?

Advice on How to Get Started on an International Development Career by AMBER WATSON for ISLAMiCOMMENTARY on OCTOBER 30, 2014: “20 years ago, I was in y

Columbia University graduate student Sarah Wall interned this summer at a youth center in Indonesia where sexual education and reproductive services were administered to at-risk teens.

Coffee, soap, and the triangular lateen sail, are also highlighted as important Islamic inventions and cultivations.

My creative work depicts a revolutionary fist made out of a collage of graffiti from the Arab Spring revolutions, outlined by lyrics and words from musicians like Ramy Essam and El General and from poets like Ahmed Fouad Negm.