Following President Donald Trump’s controversial travel ban on citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries, several Duke professors shared their thoughts on the executive order and its potential. Omid Safi is the director of the Duke Islamic...
By now we have had a chance to talk about why it is in fact a Muslim ban , based on both Trump’s own words and the words of Trump’s circle . I wanted to take a minute and talk about why this Muslim ban is personal to me. Read more here.
I am a teacher. Teaching is what I do. It’s tied to my core belief that knowledge is more powerful than ignorance, that light is more beautiful than darkness, and love more divine than hatred. This is why I teach, because I do believe in...
Prior to the inauguration of Donald Trump as the 45th president of the United States, some were saying that perhaps his posturing during the campaign was a tactic to get elected, and that once he had assumed the...
Donald Trump recently claimed that he saw Muslims celebrating in New Jersey after the September 11 attacks. He later reaffirmed this account despite a lack of evidence, adding that suspected terrorists should...
by JULIE POUCHER HARBIN, EDITOR, ISLAMiCommentary on FEBRUARY 4, 2015:
In the past decade, Istanbul has undergone an immense political and economic transformation, making it “an ideal site to study the contradictory forces that come...
