Islamophobia Archives | Contending Modernities

Black Dignity as a Universal Horizon

Nadia Fadil
August 31, 2023

The political vocabularies and tactics generated through the African American struggle has had a universal reach that has inspired and shaped struggles all over the world.

Introducing The Mirza Family Chair Inaugural Symposium

Series: Mirza Family Chair Inaugural Symposium

Joshua S. Lupo
January 31, 2023February 7, 2023

Inspired by the work of Ebrahim Moosa, this symposium addresses challenging questions about how to confront Islamophobia in west and how to reimagine the study of religion today.

Why are We Still Talking about the “Clash of Civilizations”? Anne Norton and the Search for the Andalusias of Modernity

Series: Mirza Family Chair Inaugural Symposium

Atalia Omer
January 31, 2023January 31, 2023

Norton’s book illuminates the dynamics of sexual politics and how they operate to exclude, securitize, and otherize Muslims.

A Secular Conversion of Protestant Morals?

Series: Symposium on The Moral Triangle

Sultan Doughan
February 17, 2022February 18, 2022

The history of post-Holocaust Germany and German-Jewish relations cannot be fully grasped without understanding the wider efforts of the Protestant Church.

Germany’s Split Identity: Liberal at Home, Reactionary on Palestine

Series: Symposium on The Moral Triangle

Amos Goldberg
February 9, 2022February 9, 2022

Personal and collective identities always hold tensions, ambivalences, paradoxes, and even contradictions. But when these become so extreme that the gaps cannot be negotiated, mitigated, bridged, or even discussed, they become a reason for deep (political) concern.

Introduction to Symposium on The Moral Triangle

Series: Symposium on The Moral Triangle

Joshua S. Lupo
February 9, 2022March 4, 2022

What readers will discern in these pages is that the historical traumas experienced by one group can occlude the realities of violence and oppression in another.

Re-Entangling Palestine

Series: Symposium on The Arab and Jewish Questions

Nadia Fadil
August 30, 2021August 30, 2021

While the notion of solidarity assumes a separation in the struggles, and a tactical alliance and support, the vocabulary of entanglement forces us to reckon with the interdependency of these different struggles.

Introducing The Arab and Jewish Questions

Series: Symposium on The Arab and Jewish Questions

Leila Farsakh
August 26, 2021August 26, 2021

This book interrogates the opposition between the “Arab” and the “Jew” in order to challenge dominant understandings of political identities, nationalism, and citizenship rights.

Interrogating Modernity and Egalitarian Binationalism in Palestine/Israel

Series: Symposium on The Arab and Jewish Questions

Bashir Bashir
August 26, 2021

“The question of Palestine,” “the Jewish question,” and “the Muslim question” are conceptually and historically linked, and their entanglement continues to fuel tensions in the Middle East, Europe, and the USA.

Islamophobia and Epistemological Ignorance

Uzma Jamil
July 29, 2021July 29, 2021

Islamophobia is sustained, not through personal prejudice, but through a systemic refusal to see Quebec’s own Whiteness as integral to its national identity.

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