DCI virologist Micah A. Luftig, PhD, was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; recognized for his contributions to biological science in the field of viral oncology.

Thomas LeBlanc, MD, received the 2018 European Association of Palliative Care Clinical Impact Award. He presented his talk on “Integrating palliative care aside curative treatment in hemato-oncological diseases.”

Three young Duke scientists who research cancer have been selected to attend the 68th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in June, to be held in Germany.

A multi-institutional team of researchers led by David Kirsch, MD, PhD, has been awarded a $2.5 million grant from Stand Up to Cancer to investigate the efficacy of treating high-risk soft-tissue sarcoma patients with radiotherapy & immunotherapy.

Has Nostra Aetate – the Catholic Church’s declaration on relations with non-Christian religions — stood the test of time?

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.

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.

Are Muslims embraced as part of the mosaic of Europe? Or, are they considered and treated as outsiders,…

Duke professor Mbaye Lo highlights key elements in his current book project entitled “Justice versus Freedom: the Problem with Militant Islam.”

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.

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.

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.

The work of the Carnegie Corporation of New York-supported Transcultural Islam Project (ISLAMiCommentary and TIRN) has been highlighted in a new report by the Social Science Research Council. The report surveyed 160 digital projects.

Is there a more tragic country in the world today than Syria ? How did it descend into chaos, conflict, and crisis? John McHugo offers some answers in "Syria: A History of the Last Hundred Years." (The New Press, 2015).

Is there a more tragic country in the world today than Syria ? How did it descend into chaos, conflict, and crisis? John McHugo offers some answers in "Syria: A History of the Last Hundred Years" (The New Press, 2015).

The so-called Islamic State has no chance of actually conquering Paris or Beirut with small squads of suicide attackers, armed with crude bombs and a handful of machine guns. But that is not its real goal...

How did Muslims and Jews create and inhabit shared spaces in post-World War I France? Historian Ethan B. Katz examines the 'triangular affair' between Muslims, France, and Jews in "The Burdens of Brotherhood: Jews and Muslims from North Africa to Fra

This weekend’s discussions of America’s strategy for dealing with ISIS in light of the Paris attacks have been overly simplistic and wrongly assume that application of more and more U.S. military power is the proper way to address the ISIS threat.