Sahar Aziz - Author, Professor, and Advocate

Islamophobia, Antisemitism and Palestine [Cornell]

Sahar Aziz, Distinguished Professor of Law and Chancellor’s Social Justice Scholar at Rutgers University Law School, examines the erroneous zero-sum discursive frames, most acutely in foreign policy debates, that pits Muslims and Jews as competitors, rather than allies, in defending civil and human rights. This talk was the third in the series “Antisemitism and Islamophobia Examined” that brought four leading academics to Cornell University in the Spring 2024 semester to explore the history of these forms of prejudice, examine the impact on Jews and Muslims in America today, and map… Continue reading

Keynote on Race and Religion at the Intersection [Drexel Law]

Professor Sahar Aziz delivered the Center for Law, Policy and Social Action (CLPSA) keynote at Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law. Professor Aziz examined the intersectional relationship between race and religion, namely as it pertains to Muslim identity and experiences of racialized religious discrimination and infringement upon religious freedom in the United States. Her highly acclaimed book featured in Time Magazine, The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes Religious Freedom, informed the public lecture on October 23, 2023.… Continue reading

Sahar Aziz Delivers Faculty Address to Rutgers Law Class of 2023

The Rutgers Law School (Newark) Class of 2023 selected Professor Sahar Aziz to deliver the faculty address at their commencement ceremony. She reminded graduates of the People’s Electric Law School to take seriously the weighty responsibility of lawyers as the guardians of our society’s democracy and the foundation on which justice stands. To hear her full remarks, click here or watch below.… Continue reading

Current US Engagements and Evolving US Priorities in the Region [Arab Center]

Professor Sahar Aziz contributed her expertise on Egypt-U.S. relations on a panel addressing current and future US priorities in the region and America’s bilateral relations with key players and policies in Gulf Arab states, Israel, Egypt, Syria, and Iran. The panel, Current U.S. Engagements and Evolving US Priorities inn the Region, discussed China and Russia’s roles in the region’s conflicts, the United States’ direct military involvement and its haphazard disengagement in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya, as well as the US retreat on commitments to human rights and democracy. —… Continue reading

Fireside Chat on The Racial Muslim with Deb Amos [Rutgers]

Internationally renowned journalist and NPR correspondent Deb Amos joined Professor Sahar Aziz at Rutgers University-Newark for a fireside chat about immigration, race, Islamophobia, and religious pluralism. Watch their conversation here and below. For a more in-depth analysis, read The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes Religious Freedom.… Continue reading

State-Sponsored Transnational Repression: A Conversation with the FBI [Princeton]

Professor Sahar Aziz participated on a panel at Princeton University that explores the causes and consequences of state sponsored transnational repression. Her remarks begin at minute 44.… Continue reading

Abortion, Race and Religion in Post-Roe America [CSRR]

The US Supreme Court's reversal of Roe v. Wade threatens the bodily autonomy of women across the country. Continue reading

Twentieth Anniversary of 9/11 Essays [Mich. J. Race & Law]

The Michigan Journal of Race and the Law published a special volume on the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks that featured articles by leading scholars on national security, immigration, criminal law, and race. Sahar Aziz’s article State Sponsored Radicalization conducts a comprehensive review of the literature that rebukes the dominant (fallacious) government narrative about ‘radicalization’ to terrorism. Not only are there no empirically based criteria for predicting who is more likely to engage in politically motivated violence, but increased religiosity of Muslims has no correlation to terrorist tendencies. And… Continue reading

Impact of Global Competition on Democracy and Human Rights in the Middle East [Arab Center]

Professor Sahar Aziz contributed her expertise on human rights in the Middle East during the Arab Center’s sixth annual conference on the panel Competition on Democracy and Human Rights in the Middle East. The conference addressed developments in US policy with regard to human rights and democracy, the role of Russia and China in empowering totalitarian regimes and representing a new axis of authoritarianism, the impact of US disengagement and growing Russian and Chinese power projections on human rights, the role of international mechanisms like UN resolutions and Human… Continue reading

National Conference on Race and Ethnicity 2022 [NCORE]

Sahar Aziz presented her groundbreaking book The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes Religious Freedom at the 2022 Annual National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in Portland, Oregon. Engaging with an audience of university administrators, faculty and students committed to diversity, equity and inclusion, Professor Aziz explained the historical and contemporary factors contributing to the racialization of Muslim identity, and consequent civil rights violations. Comparing discrimination against immigrant Muslims with the prejudicial treatment of Jews, Catholics, Mormons, and African American Muslims during the twentieth century, Professor Aziz explored the gap between… Continue reading

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