Muslim diasporas in Europe and the US

Pan-Islamic Networks of the Apocalypse: Mobilizing Diasporic Muslim Youth on Facebook

by David Drissel

Hip-Hop Hybridity for a Glocalized World: African and Muslim Diasporic Discourses in French Rap Music

by David Drissel

Muslims in Colorado: From a Novelty Religion to a Thriving Community

by Patrick D. Bowen

Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, Volume 29, Number 3, September 2009 , pp. 345-354

Trust, representation and communication are key to increasing engagement between the British Muslim community and the government

by Sherry Sayed Gadelrab

The ongoing situations in Afghanistan and Iraq and high profile debates on multiculturalism raise questions about... more The ongoing situations in Afghanistan and Iraq and high profile debates on multiculturalism raise questions about British foreign policy and the support of British Muslims for the government’s overseas policy decisions. Robert Mason and Sherry Sayed Gadelrab examine opinions of the British Muslim community around political engagement and how stronger links between this community and the coalition government could be developed.

Palestinian Women Filmmakers in the New World Diaspora

by Terri Ginsberg

forthcoming (in Arabic and English) in Palestinian Women Filmmakers: Strategies of Representation, Conditions of Production, ed. Alia Arasoughly (Shashat/Birzeit UP)

Muslims In Britain After 7/7: the Problem of the Few

by Tahir Abbas

Expressions of Muslim identity in architecture and urbanism in Birmingham, UK

by Noha Nasser

Польские татары: откуда и куда?

by Agata S. Nalborczyk

"Весь Мир" ("The Whole World" - international newspaper from Kazakhstan), 5 (33), Nov.-Dec. 2011.

Between the east and the west: The penetration of contemporary Islam into Poland

by Daniel Boćkowski

Published in “Limes” 2009, Vol. 2, No. 1, s. 39-46; DOI:10.3846/2029-0187.2009.1.39-47

The Road Not Taken: Shedding Xenophobia, Embracing the Other in Umm Zakiyyah’s If I Should Speak

by Arezou Zalipour

This is a co-authored paper.

In Umm Zakiyyah‟s If I Should Speak (2000), the protagonist, African American Christian Tamika Douglass experiences... more In Umm Zakiyyah‟s If I Should Speak (2000), the protagonist, African American Christian Tamika Douglass experiences travelling down the road not taken when she befriends her two minority Muslim American college flatmates, Dee @ Durrah and Aminah. Raised in a predominantly Christian society, Tamika develops a great mistrust of Islam and Muslims. However, her close and personal encounter with the two Muslims transforms her appreciation of the religion. Through Tamika‟s dialogue with them and personal observations of their daily living, Tamika journeys into the road less travelled by most Americans, one which is foreign albeit close to home. In the course of the narrative, Tamika learns to shed some of the xenophobic attitudes she has adopted growing up in the predominantly non-Muslim environment and embrace the internal conflicts that have crippled her awareness of the “other.” This paper considers the motif of the road as a metaphor for life and explicates how in journeying the road less travelled, Tamika finds a new sense of appreciation of herself and the other.

The Political Representation of Muslims in Brussels

by Fatima ZIBOUH

Compared with other major European cities, the Brussels-Capital Region has a unique configuration in terms of the... more Compared with other major European cities, the Brussels-Capital Region has a unique configuration in terms of the political repre- sentation of elected representatives descended from diverse ethnocultural groups, and in particular Muslim elected representatives. Nearly one out of five members of the Parliament of the Brussels-Capital Region is of Muslim origin. This is all the more unique given that, for the first time in Brussels and in the entire European Union, one of the seats in the Brussels Parliament is held by a Muslim member who wears a headscarf (Mahinur Ozdemir). The present article is based on documentary work as well as an em- pirical approach carried out using interviews which were conducted with Brussels MPs and community stakeholders mobilised be- fore the elections as well as an ethnographic observation of the election campaign. Its objective is to understand the explanatory factors regarding this political representation which
is quite unusual in Europe, by formulating the hy- pothesis of the deciding influence of institutional parameters combined with the demographic evolu- tion and community mobilisation of Muslims in Brussels.

Reflections on the Shari'a Debate In Britain

by Prakash Shah

A final version of this paper was published in (2010) Vol. 13 Studia z Prawa Wyznaniowego (Studies of Ecclesiastical Law), pp. 71-98.
(http://www.kul.pl/11824.html)

The Archbishop of Canterbury’s speech on Civil and Religious Law in England in February 2008 provoked and range of... more The Archbishop of Canterbury’s speech on Civil and Religious Law in England in February 2008 provoked and range of responses from outrage to sympathy. The speech aimed to delineate the contours of a new relationship between the ‘law of the land’ and religious law, particularly Muslim law or shari’a. This article aims to explore the extent to which the Archbishop’s ideas can bear fruit under current conditions of thinking and teaching about law. It places the Archbishop’s speech in the context of historical and existing regimes of legal plurality whereby states recognise more than one legal order. It then goes on to examine some of the detail in the Archbishop’s speech and examines the responses to it. Finally, the article examines the constraints and opportunities in achieving the greater level of attention to religious law which the Archbishop advocated within the framework of British legal systems.

Legal Pluralism —British Law and Possibilities With Muslim Ethnic Minorities

by Prakash Shah

This paper is published in (1994) Vol. 17, No. 66/67 Retfærd (Nordisk jurdisk tidsskrift), pp. 18-33.

Islamophobia in the construction of British Muslim identity politics

by Yahya Birt

in Peter E. Hopkins and Richard Gale (eds.) Muslims in Britain: Race, Place and Identities (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2009), 210-227.

The religification of Pakistani-American youth

by Ameena Ghaffar-Kucher

American Educational Research Journal

This article describes a cultural production process called religification,in which religious affiliation, rather than... more This article describes a cultural production process called religification,in which religious affiliation, rather than race or ethnicity, has become the core category of identity for working-class Pakistani-American youth in the United States. In this dialectical process, triggered by political changes following the September 11 terrorist attacks, the Muslim identity is both thrust upon Pakistani-American youth by those who question their citizenship and embraced by the youth themselves. Specifically, the article examines the ways in which schools are sites where citizenship is both constructed and contested and the roles that peers, school personnel, families, and the youth themselves play in this construction/contestation of citizenship.

http://aer.sagepub.com/content/early/2011/08/02/0002831211414858

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by David Bos

Column Column

Turkey- Kurdish Conflict: The Struggle for Homeland

by Lalatendu Keshari Das

Submitted as part of course requirements in the study of Muslim societies.

                  This paper tries to analyze the much talked about... more                   This paper tries to analyze the much talked about ‘Turkey-Kurdish’ conflict. According to the Kurds this conflict could also be called as ‘self-respect’ and ‘empowerment’ movement. The movement aims to end the centuries of ‘ill-treatment’ and ‘subjugation’ in the hands of both the Ottoman Turks and the Persian rulers on the one hand and the Turkish Republic and Iranian Republic on the other. In the meantime, the pro-Kurdistan supporters, since the third decade of the 20th century, have taken various methods, tricks and strategies to gain this, but in vein. These strategies ranged from peaceful marches to memoranda to various world governments, to violent Maoist style guerrilla battles with the government forces. The retaliation to such means meant that the various governments of this region adopted extraordinary levels of counter violence, suppressive measures. Notwithstanding what their motto was, these battles claimed thousands of innocent lives and rendered hundreds and thousands others homeless, destitute and orphaned.

Islamic Roots of Hip-Hop

by Naeem Mohaiemen

published in "Sound Unbound", DJ Spooky ed., MIT Press, 2008

Honorable Mention runner up for Villem Flusser Theory Award, Transmediale, Berlin. Honorable Mention runner up for Villem Flusser Theory Award, Transmediale, Berlin.

RIGHT TO RELIGION AS RIGHT TO CULTURE: MIGRANT RIGHTS REVISED

by Orhan Ceka

Cluster Paper in MA Studies