Inhabiting Orthodoxy: Discussing Islam and Feminism, Continued
Examining how Muslim women in the Middle East inscribe themselves in their own religion can help clarify differences and similarities between ‘us’ and ‘them’.
Hidden Victims of International Terrorism: Muslim Women in the USA
Muslim women face a dilemma: in some places they are attacked for not wearing a headscarf, in others for wearing one. After every new terrorist attack, they are targeted.
Times of Tumult: Discussing Islam and Feminism
Religion, far from being what separates us, may actually be one of the things that we share in common.
Disrupting the ‘Conditional Selfhood’ of Threat Construction
It is essential to interrogate how representations of the homegrown threat in security practice may instead be influencing insecurity.
Review – Holy Ignorance: When Religion and Culture Part Ways
With philosophically rigourous analysis, Roy goes beyond the well-trod tropes of ‘radical Islam’ and pushes us to think outside of a ‘clash of civilizations’ paradigm.
Islam and the Politics of Temporality: The Case of ISIS
ISIS is not unique when it comes to the significance of temporality as issues pertaining to the past have been a constant factor in Islamic thought.
Islamophobia(s) In the Aftermath of the Nice Attack
To understand the changing nature of Islamophobia, it is necessary to understand it in the plural and to differentiate between its illiberal and liberal forms.
Hillary Clinton’s Response to the Pulse Orlando Shootings
Queer scholars must deconstruct discourses and affective structures that attempt to put queer subjects in binaries and offer citizenship in exchange of being a part of global warfare.
Challenging ISIS on its Own Turf
While organizations bemoan the Islamophobia being generated due to extremist misdeeds, it is important that Muslims avoid supporting others because of their religion.
Revisiting Turkey’s Protean Self vs. ‘Other’
‘Ontological insecurity’ provides a more accurate analysis of Turkey’s Europeanization project as an alternative theoretical perspective to realism and constructivism.
