Middle Eastern Studies at CSULB

Meet the Students Who Are Shaking the Teaching of History THE BLOG Meet the Students Who Are Shaking the Teaching of History 17/06/2016 15:03 | Updated 7 hours ago Usman Butt Is a London360 Reporter and Producer Chris Gratien and Emrah Safa Gurkan Telling history use to be the preserve of a small group of academics writing books for other academics. There…

Author discusses new book on history of area studies and Middle East studies Author discusses his new book on the evolution of Middle East studies in specific and area studies more broadly.

Tunisia's Olympic shark: The swimmer who inspired a nation This summer, all eyes will be glued to Tunisian TVs as they watch Oussama Mellouli dive back into the water for one last shot at glory

Omar Mateen and Rightwing Homophobia: Hate Crime or Domestic Terrorism? By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - US law enforcement is at least initially categorizing the horrific Orlando …

Top 7 ways to tell if Someone is lying about being a 'Salafi Jihadi' By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Regulars at Pulse Nightclub are saying that Omar Mateen, the alleged …

"So, yes, I condemn Islamophobia, but not just because I think it’s morally wrong to discriminate against a religious community. I condemn Islamophobia because the evidence shows that it is only going to worsen the problem we are trying to solve."

I've studied radicalization – and Islamophobia often plants the seed | Sarah Lyons-Padilla The evidence shows that alienating an entire religious community, as Donald Trump has done, will make us less safe. There are better ways to fight extremism

Love and Desire: the Truest Resistance to Terror and Power The victims in Orlando were killed because of who they loved, who they desired, and for no other reason. The massacre was not “an attack on our country.” It was a savage hate crime against gay peop…

Women Who Work Are 'Deficient,' Key U.S. Ally Says This latest in a series of remarks by Recep Tayyip Erdogan sparked fear among he is leading Turkey down the path toward conservative Islam.

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Seattle poet erases borders with poetry Elizabeth Austen talks to Seattle poet Faiza Sultan and poet and translator Lena Khalaf Tuffaha about how Sultan uses her poetry to bridge cultures.

US Muslims hope the service for the boxing legend will help underscore that "Islam is fully part of American life".
"Muhammad planned all of this," said Imam Zaid Shakir, a prominent US Muslim scholar who will lead Thursday's prayers.
"And he planned for it to be a teaching moment."

Muhammad Ali mourned with traditional Muslim funeral Thousands gather in Louisville to attend a traditional Muslim prayer service for Muhammad Ali.

"The recent constitutional amendments do not simply represent the persistence of authoritarian rule. They represent the deepening of the nature of such rule. Proclamations, whether from their regime or analysts, of progress, reform, or stability cannot be taken at face value. It is thus imperative that we listen to the analysis of those historical and contemporary activists and intellectuals that the Jordanian regime relentlessly attempts to silence, contain, and erase. These struggles for social justice render any celebration of the regime’s ostensible reform suspect."

The Facade of Jordanian Reform: A Brief History of the Constitution In a matter of days this past month, the Jordanian legislature moved rapidly to substantially concentrate official government power in the institution of the monarch. The cabinet introduced a set of constitutional amendments on 18 April 2016. ...