Religion
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This is a history that stubbornly refuses to yield the space of memory to those who wish that we were never here. My new edited book, Arab American Public History, is now available from Temple University Press, and like a number of my works, it has been published at a terrifying moment for the communities…
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This past summer, I rejoined the staff of the Journal of Africana Religions, which I co-founded with Sylvester Johnson in 2011, as interim managing editor. When I left the journal in 2021, the journal was fully staffed. We had recruited three new editors; Prof. Johnson and long-time Managing Editor Jeremy Rehwaldt were also still serving.…
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It may be one of the most important projects on which I have ever worked. For the past couple years, I have served as lead scholar for Hidden Voices: Muslim Americans in United States History, a curriculum written for the New York City Department of Education (DOE), which operates the largest single public school district…
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I am proud to join Professors Danielle Boaz (UNC Charlotte) and Youssef Carter (UNC Chapel Hill) as co-principal investigator in a multi-year project, funded by the Religion and Theology Program of the Henry Luce Foundation, that amplifies community efforts to prevent discrimination and violence against practitioners of Africana religions. The first stage engaged practitioners of…