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Hatem Bazian addresses the historical trajectory of Islamophobia and its significance in understanding geopolitical transformation in the post-Cold War world. As We..

This book is my attempt to correct a grave injustice by zooming in on a free, spiritual, inventive Moroccan woman filmmaker. While little known outside Morocco, there she is a cultural icon and a revered dame du cinéma.

We, the undersigned, express our solidarity with our colleague François Burgat, a prominent academic who stands trial for apology for terrorism in France. His first court date was on April 24, 2025, a few days after French president Emmanuel Macron, in reaction to the Trump administrat..

My current research focuses on nineteenth-century architecture in Iran, particularly madrasas and their integration with other spaces like mosques.

The Middle East and Islamic Consortium (MEICON), a collaborative academic and research project, is now accepting submissions for the 2025 MEICON Student Conference, to be organized by SFU’s Centre for Comparative Muslim Studies. This in-person conference will be held on Saturday, March 15, 2025,..

I finished this book just as the current phase of Israeli genocide against Palestinians began, and I’d like to direct readers to the final question of this NEWTON, which addresses why any of this still matters.

My current research focuses on women’s same-sex relationships, particularly exploring how gender, love, and spirituality intersect within religious frameworks.

The book is born out of my PhD thesis, which in turn was a translation and critical study of Imam Badr al-Din al-Zarkashi's fourteenth-century work, al-Ijaba li-Iradi ma Istadrakathu Aisha Ala al-Sahabah - The Corrective: Aisha's Rectification of the..

An editor from Oxford University Press contacted me about the possibility of editing a handbook on the history of modern Egypt. Given the years that had passed since the appearance of the classic Cambridge volumes on Egyptian history, there was clearly room and..

On 8 January 2009, while reading the daily news from local media in Turkey’s Kurdistan, I was astounded by a brief clip from Antep. None of it seemed to make sense. It reported that three days earlier, on 5 January, Turkish security forces in Gaziantep had stop..

There were two interrelated things which drove me to write this book: first, the clear understanding I had in 2012, in the wake of my father’s death, that two colonial projects deracinated me from the world of my ancestors, the Jewish Muslim world, and the Magh..

In this 13th episode of Gaza on My Mind / غزّة على بالي, we converse with Pharmacist and writer Omar Hamad from Gaza about the continuing calamity there amid ceasefire theater (in Arabic). We also discuss with Paris-based Poli..

The book is the result of almost twenty years of engaging with Palestine and Islamic almsgiving (zakat). From 2004 to 2005, I studied for one year at the Palestinian University of Birzeit. 

Within the fields of French history and French colonial history, there has been so much scholarship on colonial Algeria, yet both fields have been largely silent on Algerian women, particularly before the War of Independence (1954-1962).

Like most first books, this book grew out of my dissertation. Initially, I was drawn to the proliferation of charitable advertisements, campaigns, and slogans in the Turkish public sphere. The rise of organized, professional forms of charity—popular among both ..

Empire of Refugees is a transimperial history of migration that reveals the origins of organized refugee resettlement in the Middle East. It explores how the Ottoman government reshaped the empire through refugee migration.

Toby Matthiesen, The Caliph and the Imam: The Making of Sunnism and Shiism (Oxford University Press, 2023).

Most of my research has been conducted in the field of Muslim women’s issues as a minority group. My research deals with women’s struggles for recognition of their ignored or misrecognized gender and religious identities under the rule of secular or/and Islamis..