Nearly two years since the 2014 attack on Gaza, San Francisco Bay Area child psychiatrist Bahar Hashemi, MD, talked about what she learned on her recent trip to Gaza about the effects of perpetual trauma on the children there.

Here’s a List of All of Our Original Book Q & As and Essays to Date, with Special Thanks to Joseph Preville for his “By the Book” Columns!

(RNS) As part of his “Islam in Film” class at the University of Nebraska, religious studies professor Kristian Petersen screens movies such as “The Hurt Locker” , “Argo” and “American Sniper” to make the point that depictions of Muslims on the big...

“We have to recognize that there are several shattered political visions that are still with us and there are several unhealed traumas or wounds – the Armenians, Kurds, Palestinians..we are still dealing with the long-term legacy..."

The motto of the Kingdom of Morocco is “Allah, al-Watan, al-Malik” (God, the Nation, the King). This motto was the spark for Yale University professor Jonathan Wyrtzen’s new book, "Making Morocco: Colonial Intervention and the Politics of Identity."

Afghan refugee Gulwali Passarlay opens up about his remarkable year-long journey to the UK, in a conversation with Duke students facilitated by Julie Poucher Harbin, editor of ISLAMiCommentary.

Following an event at Duke, policy analyst, journalist, and scholar Raza Rumi speaks, in an interview with ISLAMiCommentary, about countering violent extremism in the Middle East and in Pakistan.

Are Muslims embraced as part of the mosaic of Europe? Or, are they considered and treated as outsiders, foreigners, and invaders? Political Scientist Peter O’Brien deconstructs this issue in his new book "The Muslim Question in Europe."

Dozens of Middle East studies scholars, students and the general public packed a public talk — “Beyond Hysteria and Apologia: The ISIS Challenge in Perspective” — given by retired US diplomat Ambassador Alberto Fernandez.

Dozens of Middle East studies scholars, students and the general public packed a public talk — “Beyond Hysteria and Apologia: The ISIS Challenge in Perspective” — given by retired US diplomat Ambassador Alberto Fernandez last week.

The Syrian refugee crisis was decades in the making. The international community now has less time to try to resolve it. That was the message from a series of scholars, journalists and artists who spoke at a two-day conference last week at Duke.

Local and visiting scholars and students, activists, journalists, artists and local refugees will come together for a public conference at Duke University Jan. 28-29 to address the urgency of the Syrian, Iraqi and Sudanese refugee crises.

By spreading news of their brutal conquests via social media, the impact of extremist groups such ISIS has been magnified. Five Duke University faculty members will examine the impact of ISIS at home and abroad in a public discussion.

By spreading news of their brutal conquests via social media, the impact of extremist groups such ISIS has been magnified. Five Duke University faculty members will examine the impact of ISIS at home and abroad in a public discussion.

On Nov. 3-4 president of the National Iranian American Council Trita Parsi spoke on “The U.S. and Iran: Can the Nuclear Deal Bring Friendship?” at UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke.

In this written Q & A with Malachi Hacohen, ISLAMiCommentary gets this European historian’s take on how ISIS, the Syria civil war, and the refugee crisis is shaping European politics and identity today.

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..