Muslims
The slow work of dialogue
For 20 years, Mennonite scholars from North America and Shi’a scholars from Iran have met periodically to build bridges.
Ordinary American stories
Edward Curtis traces two successive generations of Syrian Muslims across small towns and cities in the Dakotas, Iowa, and Indiana.
Class trip to a mosque
I wanted to introduce my students to Muslims, not just to Islam.
Kamila Shamsie’s novel is filled with perfect coincidences
Of all the coffee joints frequented by all the British citizens-of-Pakistani-descent in all of Amherst, Massachusetts, she walks into his?
To name or not to name
The Holocaust was perpetrated against specific groups of people. Is this fact a crucial part of every retelling?
"Next time you see me, I won't be wearing this shirt."
It starts off as a standard writeup of a protest and counter-protest of a mosque’s Friday prayers. An accompanying video portrays the two sides as polarized not just in rhetoric but in various cultural markers, starting with the fact that one side is packing the kind of firepower that would have shocked people not so long ago (and would still if the heat-packers weren’t so white).
You know, just a slice of 21st-century American life.
"Detroit is right next to Dearborn"
TLC has a new reality show about American Muslims, set in Dearborn, Michigan. American Muslim Aman Ali has a spirited response.
Clash of cultures?
What happens when an anthropologist who happens to be a Pakistani, a former diplomat and a member of the Incident Management Team of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security shows up at 100 American mosques armed with questionnaires and a few white student research assistants? For the most part, nothing very controversial.