Tag: Racial Muslim

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 “Fireside Chat on The Racial Muslim with Deb Amos [Rutgers]”
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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 book, in which she explores this paradox: how could a religious minority be so overtly discriminated against in a country that privileges religious freedom legally and normatively. — To learn more about the… Continue reading “Achieving Excellence Speaker Series Features Sahar Aziz [Pittsburgh Law]”
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Security, Race, and Rights [The Maydan]

As the 20th anniversary of September 11 reminds us of personal tragedy as well as structural violence of the state, The Maydan Podcast editor-in-chief Ahmet Tekelioglu hosts Sahar Aziz, a legal scholar, an expert on critical race theory, and the founding director of the Center for Security, Race, and Rights at  Rutgers University Law School. She is the author of The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes Religious Freedom published with the University of California Press in November 2021. Tekelioglu and Aziz also speak about the impact of 9/11 on legal… Continue reading “Security, Race, and Rights [The Maydan]”
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