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When satire targets marginalized groups, it risks reinforcing harmful stereotypes rather than challenging them.
The international community should focus on empowering Syria’s local civil society groups and advocating for women’s rights to ensure a more inclusive society.
Gifting has evolved dramatically in Africa since humans first evolved the instinct to give.
The fall of the Assad regime marks a turning point in Syria’s history. But it also opens a ‘chapter fraught with peril’ for the country’s minorities, an expert on religious minorities writes.
The fatwa says the October 7 attacks broke Islamic law which forbids harming civilians, including women and children, during war.
Wars have always required false dichotomies: Christian and Muslim, civilization and barbarism, West and East to justify violence against the other.
Bangladesh has avoided total collapse, but what step the country takes next remains to be seen.
A scholar of Iraq describes the ongoing loss following the genocidal violence by IS − not just of human lives, but of a rich cultural heritage.
The annual Ojude-Oba festival in south-west Nigeria can be further promoted so that the community can derive more benefits.
Despite reports of mismanagement, the 2024 Hajj brought together pilgrims of diverse backgrounds from 180 countries.
Hajj has grappled with public health and safety risks such as crowd crushes and infectious diseases in the past. It’s now facing an emerging risk: climate extremes.
Iran’s government have declared their former president is a martyr, and this is forming part of the political campaign ahead of the election.
Mosques with walls, barriers and separated entrances all send a clear message to Muslim women: that these spaces are not designed to include us.
The sudden death of Iran’s president, Ebrahim Raisi, has also sparked much speculation about the identity of the country’s next supreme leader.
Cinema buildings provide exactly what many faith groups need: space for congregants to take part in communal ritual and worship.
Some of these men went from being indentured pearl divers to soldiers in Borneo. Other fled their home country as teenagers to earn money.
In religious traditions, patience is more than waiting, or even more than enduring a hardship. But what does patience look like? And when should we not exercise patience?
Thanks to a strong oral Urdu literary tradition in South Asia, poems from the past linger in the popular imagination.
Online Ramadan content has boosted Muslim voices and empowered people to to speak for themselves and on their own terms.
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Affiliate Researcher, Religion and Civic Culture Center, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences; Bayreuth University
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Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Florida International University
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Research Fellow, Middle East Studies, Deakin University
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Professor of Islamic Studies, Head of School, The Centre for Islamic Studies and Civilisation, Charles Sturt University
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Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Western Sydney University
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Professor of Political Science, Director of Center for Islamic & Arabic Studies, San Diego State University
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Affiliated Faculty of Bioethics, Religion, and Society, Department of Religious Studies, DePaul University
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Emeritus Professor in the History of Religious Thought, The University of Queensland
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Assistant Professor of Philanthropic Studies, Indiana University
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Director of the Curtin Extremism Research Network (CERN), Curtin University
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Technology Sydney
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Reader in Political Science and International Relations, Aston University
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Honorary Research Associate, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University
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Class of 1950 Herman B Wells Endowed Professor and Professor of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures, Indiana University