In this episode, Dr. Hussein Rashid talks about his recently published volume, Islam in North America: An Introduction (Bloomsbury, 2024), which he co-edited with Huma Mohibullah and Vincent Biondo. Hussein discusses his trajectory as a scholar and how...
Farzin Vejdani, Associate Professor of Middle Eastern History, Toronto Metropolitan University Salma Waheedi, Moderator Lunch will be provided More Information
Beeta Baghoolizadeh, Associate Research Scholar, Middle East Institute at Columbia University Co-sponsors: Mahindra Humanities Center Persian and Persianate Studies Seminar
The Selection Committee is pleased to announce Jana Amin (NELC and Anthropology) as winner of the 2025 Alwaleed Bin Talal Undergraduate Thesis Prize in Islamic Studies for her thesis entitled, “ Tasting Freedom: Palestinian Women's Kitchens as Sites of...
Jews were an integral part of Muslim civilization in the Middle East, North Africa, Iberia, and beyond from its origins until the mid-20 th century. Integration and symbiosis were more common and enduring than episodes of tension and persecution. This...
In the first podcast episode of our "Climate Change and Muslim Societies" series, Dr. Safouan Azouzi discusses his research on Design for Social Innovation. Design, historically rooted in Eurocentric perspectives tied to capitalism and overconsumption...
Please note that this event has been rescheduled from October 22nd to October 23rd . “The South does not exist.” —Paul B. Preciado, The Invention of the South , 2017 How do we design from a place defined by its erasure? A place whose epistemologies have...
Thesis Prizes 2025 We are pleased to announce that we are accepting submissions for the Alwaleed Bin Talal Undergraduate Thesis Prize and Alwaleed Bin Talal Doctoral Dissertation Prize in Islamic Studies. The prizes recognize students who make original...
Sebastian Günther, Chair of Arabic and Islamic Studies, University of Göttingen Co-sponsor: Center for Middle Eastern Studies and Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
The Program on Law and Society in the Muslim World presents: "Justice without Pain: The Abolition of Torture in Modern Egyptian Penal Law" by Khaled Fahmy, Edward Keller Professor of North Africa and the Middle East, Tufts University Moderated by Salma...