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Over the past twenty years, tens of thousands of domestic workers—migrant women of diverse ethnonational, linguistic, educational and religious backgrounds—have converted to Islam in the Greater Arabian Peninsula and Persian Gulf (Gulf) region. Among the region’s vast population of nonciti..

Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies Graduate Student Conference

New York, 27-28 February 2014

Knox Hall, Columbia University
606 West 122nd Street

Presented by the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and Africa..

South Asian Women’s Creative Collective, A Bomb, With Ribbon Around It. Queens Museum, Queens, New York, 14 December 2013 – 18 January 2014.

A Bomb, With a Ribbon Around It, at the Queens Museum through 18..

Call For Papers: MESAAS Graduate Conference 2014

27-28 February 2014
Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
Columbia University in the City of New York

Abstract Deadline: 1 January 2014

The organiz..

[This post is part of an ongoing Profile of a Contemporary Conduit series on Jadaliyya that seeks to highlight distinct voices primarily in and from the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia.]

Jadaliyya (J): What do you thi..

Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims: Race and Labor in the South Asian Diaspora. Durham: Duke University Press, 2011.

Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this book?

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[The following statement was issued by the South Asia Solidarity Initiative (SASI) on 6 November, 2011.]

SASI Calls for People-to-People Solidarity with Palestine and Condemns Duplicity of South Asian States in P..

Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children, which turns thirty this year, opens with one of the most celebrated bouts of throat-clearing in literary history:

I was born in the city of Bombay...once upon a time. No, that won’t do, there’s no gettin..

Senator Dick Durbin, the senior Democrat from Illinois, held a historic hearing last week on “The State of Muslim Civil Rights ..