Islam
A T-shirt, a Muslim and a Handful of Eleven-year-olds
An intense anti-Arab media campaign against the Khalil Gibran International Academy ends with a high-tech lynching.
Dear Thomas Friedman, You're Wrong (Again)
"Muslim bodies must once again be shamed, blamed, and asked to apologize in Thomas Friedman's "Calling All Pakistanis". Omer Shah calls out Friedman's decontextualizing of larger geopolitical strategies and relationships."
Three Muslim Families, Three Cities: A Review of Muslims of Metropolis
Through the stories of a Bangladeshi family in New York, a Palestinian family in London, and a Kurdish family in Germany, Kavitha Rajagopalan's Muslims of Metropolis is a necessary intervention into the popular discourse that informs our ideas about Muslims.
Muslims of Metropolis: The Stories of Three Immigrant Families in the West. By Kavitha Rajagopalan. Rutgers University Press, 2008, 283 pages.
Perpetrator and Victim
Intervention Concepts for Civil Violence in Gujarat
Bollywood Imagines the Good (and Bad) Muslim
My Name is Khan...and I am not a terrorist is the already ubiquitous chorus from the most recent Bollywood blockbuster to cross over to western audiences. The film seeks to engage American anxieties around nationalism and race and at the same time reveals similar commentaries about India. Omer Shah reviews the film and asks: are we ever able to construct Muslim identities without the notion of terrorist?
Reading <i>The Trouble with Islam</i>, Part 1
Reflecting on Irshad Manji's Ijtihad
