Announcements

Fireside Chat with Institute for Social Policy and Understanding
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8 PM EST

A conversation with experts conducting quantitative research on Muslims in North America featuring Dalia Mogahed, ISPU's Director of Research, Besheer Mohamed, Senior Researcher at Pew Research Center, and Sarah Shah, Muslims in Canada Data Initiative.

Please note that the registration questions below include demographic questions that help us further our goal of ensuring we're reaching a diverse audience. This information is optional to provide, and your answers will be available only to ISPU staff.
Middle East Authoritarianism and the subversion of Western democracy
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Why the US Should Support Democracy in the Muslim World, and How?
TENTATIVE PROGRAM
8:30 - 9:00 Registration & Continental Breakfast

9:00 - 9:15 am Opening Remarks

Prof. Asma Afsaruddin - Chair of the CSID Board

Prof. Dalia Fahmy - Chair of the Program Committee

9:15 - 9:45 AM - Opening Speaker

Keynote Speaker (TBD)

9:45 - 11:15 AM - PANEL 1:

The Cost of Authoritarianism: Assessing U.S. Mideast Policy over the Long Term
Teachers Collaborating Across Boarders
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Decolonial Tools for Researching Queerness
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Announced by the University of Pittsburgh:

CCAS in partnership with Georgetown's Gender+ Justice Initiative is pleased to host Dr. Lamyaâ Achary, Moroccan sociologist and independent researcher, human rights, gender, and LGBTQIA+ activist, and expert in gender equality and sexual diversity for an event to discuss their work dedicated to promoting justice for women and LGBTIQ+ individuals in Morocco, as well as working with a number of feminist and queer organizations in the African continent and the Middle East.
The “Abraham Accords”: Implications for Human Rights, a Just Peace, and US Policy
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With the normalization of relations between Israel and some Arab countries moving at a relatively fast pace, and with the Abraham Accords having taken over a significant proportion of US policy conversations and priorities for the region, there is a great need to provide a detailed and objective assessment of this new policy direction and its potential impacts and implications.
CAIR 2023 Civil Rights Report: Progress in the Shadow of Prejudice
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In 2022, CAIR received a total of 5,156 complaints nationwide. This is a 23 percent decrease in total complaints since the 6,720 complaints CAIR received in 2021. Domestic politics have been less volatile over the last couple of years. Less volatility may have contributed to a reduction in the number of complaints. We note that complaints about law enforcement and government overreach dropped by 38 percent. At the same time, complaints about school incidents increased by 63 percent.

“In me is the essence of the Gita”: Muslim engagements with Hindu dharma in an age of Hindu Nationalism
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ACGIS Guest Lecture with Anand Vivek Taneja
Book Talk | Rebuilding Community: Displaced Women and the Making of a Shia Ismaili Muslim Sociality (Oxford University Press)
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Podcast Episode: From Basra to Brooklyn via Tunis
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We’re going to make a bold claim today. We think our latest podcast episode covers a wider range of geographies and ecologies than anything you’re likely to listen to any time soon. From the marshes of southern Iraq, to a limestone quarry in Tunisia, to a small Sicilian village to Ditmars Park in Brooklyn and the building of the New York City Subway and the Statue of Liberty…. Our guest somehow connects it all (with a little help from Brian and his encyclopedic knowledge of limestone).
Authority and Epistemology in Islamic Medical Ethics of Women’s Reproductive Health
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