by LAWI WENG for THE IRAWADDY (NEWS SERVICE) on MAY 22, 2015: RANGOON — Muslim community leaders in Arakan State have accused the Burmese government of failing to take action against human traffickers while neighboring countries crack down on the regional trade in humans, many of whom are Rohingya Muslims from Burma. A spokesman for […]
via (U.S.) OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE on MAY 20, 2015: On May 20, 2015, the ODNI released a sizeable tranche of documents recovered during the raid on the compound used to hide Usama bin Ladin. The release, which followed a rigorous interagency review, aligns with the President’s call for increased transparency–consistent with […]
Duke study abroad students read “A House in Fez” and find a temporary home in Morocco compiled by JULIE POUCHER HARBIN, EDITOR, ISLAMiCommentary on MAY 19, 2015: On May 16 eight Duke students arrived in Morocco — ready to embark on a six-week, two-course Duke in the Arab World (DAW) program in which they will “have the opportunity […]
Column » ‘By the Book’ with Joseph Preville by JOSEPH RICHARD PREVILLE and JULIE POUCHER HARBIN for ISLAMiCommentary on MAY 15, 2015: Great journalists invite us to be companions with them on their journeys to extraordinary places. Carla Power offers such an invitation in her new book, If the Oceans Were Ink: An Unlikely Friendship and a Journey […]
by ANN MARIE WAINSCOTT for IPI GLOBAL OBSERVATORY on MAY 11, 2015: In its April vote to extend the Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) until April 2016, the United Nations Security Council called for an “intensive and substantive” phase of negotiations over the territory. These would seek to finally end the 40-year […]
by JULIE POUCHER HARBIN, EDITOR, ISLAMiCommentary for DUKE TODAY on APRIL 20, 2015: DURHAM, NC – At the end of World War I, the defeated capital of the Ottoman Empire, Istanbul, was “a city of poverty and refugees” with a multi-ethnic population of 1 million, with 100,000 refugees including Balkan Muslims, Russians, Crimean and Caucasian […]
compiled by JULIE POUCHER HARBIN, EDITOR, ISLAMiCommentary on MAY 21, 2015: ISIS militants captured the historic city of Palmyra in Syria this week and were reported today to have entered the archaeological ruins there — what UNESCO has named a world heritage site. Watch the BBC report above. Professors Carol Myers, Eric Meyers, and Kevin Butcher […]
by JULIE POUCHER HARBIN, EDITOR, ISLAMiCommentary — Q & A with REBECCA STEIN — on MAY 18, 2015: Digital Militarism: Israel’s Occupation in the Social Media Age (Stanford University Press, April 2015), by scholars Adi Kunstman and Rebecca Stein, has been called “a pioneering book, showing how information and communication technologies have turned into wartime arsenals, and […]
ISIS Control of Palmyra Sends ‘Shockwaves’ Through Archaeological Community
compiled by JULIE POUCHER HARBIN, EDITOR, ISLAMiCommentary on MAY 21, 2015: ISIS militants captured the historic city of Palmyra in Syria this week and were reported today to have entered the archaeological ruins there — what UNESCO has named a world heritage site. Watch the BBC report above. Professors Carol Myers, Eric Meyers, and Kevin Butcher […]
Rebecca Stein on “Digital Militarism: Israel’s Occupation in the Social Media Age” (Book Q & A)
by JULIE POUCHER HARBIN, EDITOR, ISLAMiCommentary — Q & A with REBECCA STEIN — on MAY 18, 2015: Digital Militarism: Israel’s Occupation in the Social Media Age (Stanford University Press, April 2015), by scholars Adi Kunstman and Rebecca Stein, has been called “a pioneering book, showing how information and communication technologies have turned into wartime arsenals, and […]
Carla Power on an Unlikely Friendship & Journey to the Heart of the Quran (Book Q & A)
Column » ‘By the Book’ with Joseph Preville by JOSEPH RICHARD PREVILLE and JULIE POUCHER HARBIN for ISLAMiCommentary on MAY 15, 2015: Great journalists invite us to be companions with them on their journeys to extraordinary places. Carla Power offers such an invitation in her new book, If the Oceans Were Ink: An Unlikely Friendship and a Journey […]
WATCH: Global Norms, Geopolitics, and the Evolution of Minority Politics in Turkey
compiled by JULIE POUCHER HARBIN, EDITOR, ISLAMiCommentary/TIRN on MAY 13, 2015: Michael Reynolds, an Associate Professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University, presented on “Global Norms, Geopolitics, and the Evolution of Minority Politics in Turkey” at the March 19, 2015 workshop “Turkish Reasonable Accommodations: From Multiculturalism to Secular Nationalism and Back.” “Often in analyses […]
WATCH: The Cosmo-Politics of Nostalgia — Istanbul, Identity, and Difference
compiled by JULIE POUCHER HARBIN, EDITOR, ISLAMiCommentary/TIRN on MAY 6, 2015: Nora Fisher Onar is a Research Associate of the Centre for International Studies of the University of Oxford and a Transatlantic Fellow of the German Marshall Fund in Washington DC. Fisher Onar presented “The Cosmo-Politics of Nostalgia: Istanbul, Identity, and Difference” at the March […]
Carla Power on an Unlikely Friendship & Journey to the Heart of the Quran (Book Q & A)
Column » ‘By the Book’ with Joseph Preville by JOSEPH RICHARD PREVILLE and JULIE POUCHER HARBIN for ISLAMiCommentary on MAY 15, 2015: Great journalists invite us to be companions with them on their journeys to extraordinary places. Carla Power offers such an invitation in her new book, If the Oceans Were Ink: An Unlikely Friendship and a Journey […]
“Lives in Common”: Menachem Klein on his Latest Book & Prospects for Peace in Israel/Palestine
“Only few Israelis and Palestinians see their counterparts as equal human beings with the same collective and individual rights. The Israeli elections may bring new political leadership, but this leadership should introduce this missing perspective, not follow the right wing governments in seeing the Palestinians and other Arab – Muslim societies as an existential threat […]
“Islam in America”: A Conversation with Jonathan Curiel (Book Q & A)
Column » ‘By the Book’ with Joseph Preville by JOSEPH RICHARD PREVILLE and JULIE POUCHER HARBIN for ISLAMiCommentary on FEBRUARY 19, 2015: How do Muslims fit into the quilt of American history? Jonathan Curiel investigates this question in his new book, Islam in America (I.B. Tauris, April 28, 2015). “America’s first Muslims,” he writes, “were perceived […]
“Ms. Marvel” and ISLAMiCommentary Contributor A. David Lewis Among Eisner Award Nominees
by JULIE POUCHER HARBIN, EDITOR, ISLAMiCommentary on APRIL 24, 2014: ISLAMiCommentary contributor A. David Lewis, PhD, is one of six nominees for a Will Eisner Comic Industry Award in the Best Scholarly/Academic Work category for American Comics, Literary Theory, and Religion: The Superhero Afterlife (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014). His monthly ISLAMiCommentary columns “Comics & Dialogue: Islam in Graphic Novels” can be […]
“All In and All Out”: Examining Islam in G. Willow Wilson’s Graphic Novels
Column » Comics & Dialogue: Islam in Graphic Novels by A. DAVID LEWIS for ISLAMiCommentary on APRIL 15, 2015: When Publishers Weekly called G. Willow Wilson “a talented young writer” almost a decade ago, they likely had no idea of the superstar status she would earn over the next several years. Though Wilson is probably most […]
Column » Comics & Dialogue: Islam in Graphic Novels by A. DAVID LEWIS for ISLAMiCommentary on FEBRUARY 18, 2015: Currently based in Portland, Oregon, Katie Miranda is a Cartoonist-Calligrapher-Jewelry Designer-Illustrator-Activist. A hyphenate par excellence. “Comics and Dialogue” had a chance to talk with her about, among other things, her views on Islam and comics, Palestine and […]
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