Events

 

  • Achieving Excellence Speaker Series Features Sahar Aziz [Pittsburgh Law]

    The University of Pittsburgh School of Law will feature professor/author Sahar Aziz in a forum, moderated by Professor SpearIt, which ties the themes from her book, The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes Religious Freedom, to the concerns and experiences of Muslims living in the City of Pittsburgh. Then Professor Aziz will present the keynote lecture about her…

  • Free Speech in the Age of Politically-Motivated Violence [Georgetown Law]

    The Journal of National Security Law and Policy hosted a symposium at Georgetown Law Center on the relationship between free speech and politically-motivated violence. Sahar Aziz participated on a panel addressing threats of violence, including the doctrine established in Brandenburg v. Ohio and the infamous “Unite the Right” rally and implications of United States v.…

  • Dickinson College to Host Talk on Race and Religious Freedom

    Middle East and legal studies scholar Sahar Aziz will deliver the annual Wesley Lecture at Dickinson. The talk, “The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashed Religious Freedom,” will take place Thursday, Feb. 24, at 7 p.m. in the Anita Tuvin Schlechter (ATS) Auditorium. It is free and open to the public. Well-fitting masks are required, and…

  • The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes Religious Freedom [UC Berkeley]

    The University of Berkeley’s Center for the Study of Religion hosted Rutgers Law Professor and Chancellor’s Social Justice Scholar, Sahar Aziz, for a keynote lecture on her new book The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes Religious Freedom.” Why does a country with religious liberty enmeshed in its legal and social structures produce such overt prejudice…

  • Sahar Aziz Presents “The Racial Muslim” [UC Hastings School of Law]

    The Center for Racial and Economic Justice and Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly welcome Professor of Law and Chancellor’s Social Justice Scholar, Sahar Aziz, in conversation with Professor Evelyn Rangel-Medina, to discuss her new book, The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes Religious Freedom, which explores the racialization of religion in the United States. Muslims have experienced a long history of exclusion and discrimination…

  • The Racial Muslim [Georgetown University]

    Sahar Aziz will deliver a lecture on her groundbreaking book The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes Religious Freedom at Georgetown University’s Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding on February 9, 2022.  Registration for the online lecture is available here.

  • The Arab Terrorist Trope and the Racial Muslim [Palestinian American Community Center]

    The Palestinian American Community Center (PACC) hosted Professor Sahar Aziz in January 2022 for a community conversation on race, religion, and civil rights in connection with the release of her new book The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes Religious Freedom.

  • Roundtable Discussion on How to Heal From Racial Trauma in the Workplace [AALS]

    On January 5, 2022, Sahar Aziz joined an expert roundtable at the Association of American Law Schools to discuss how the myriad forms of discrimination, ranging from microaggressions to racial slurs, experienced by women impact their careers and mental health. Professor Aziz offered insights based on her research about the triple bind faced by Muslim…

  • The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes Religious Freedom [Fordham University School of Law]

    On Nov. 30, 2021 Rutgers University Law School Professor Sahar Aziz gave a virtual talk on her recently published book, The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes Religious Freedom, which demonstrates how race and religion intersect to create what she calls the “Racial Muslim.” The program was moderated by Tanya Katerí Hernández, Archibald R. Murray Professor of Law…

  • Ripples From 9/11 [Princeton University]

    Professor Sahar Aziz joined scholars of political science and sociology at Princeton University to examine the how America has changed in the twenty years since the September 11th terrorist attacks. In the panel “Ripples From 9/11: 20 Years Later” hosted by the School of Public and International Affairs, Professor Aziz expounded on the expansion of…