Talk of creationism generally brings to mind pitched battles over textbook standards in states like Texas and Arkansas. Surprisingly, however, creationism has been extremely successful in South Korea, a subject on the...
Last year marked a triumph for the pro-democracy movement in Burma (Myanmar) as the country began to open up after decades of stifling military rule. But this lifting of censorship has exposed an ethnically intolerant...
Last Saturday, several hundred Indian Americans and human rights activists gathered in New York City to remember the Gujarat Massacre and mark its 10th anniversary. On February 28, 2002, in the state of Gujarat in...
In Terrifying Muslims, Junaid Rana, an Associate Professor of Asian American Studies at the University of Illinois, tracks the racialization of Islam historically and the implications for the South Asian diaspora since...
Saadia Toor joins us in the studio to discuss her new book, State of Islam: Culture and Cold War Politics in Pakistan. The book tells the story of the Pakistani nation-state through the lens of the Cold War, and more...
The uproar over a proposed Islamic cultural center in Lower Manhattan shows no signs of abating and is shaping up to be a divisive issue in the upcoming mid-term elections. Faiza Patel of the Brennan Center and by...
Plans to build mosques in downtown Manhattan near the World Trade Center site, in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, and in Midland Beach, trudge forward, meeting resistance at every step. This past Sunday, there was yet...
Last week, bombs exploded in two Jakarta hotels, killing at least 9 people and injuring 50. The incident is the first major attack in five years in Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim-majority country. Lately,...
Award-winning Bangladeshi author and human rights activist Taslima Nasrin was exiled from Bangladesh in 1993 as a result of her writings on women's emancipation and secularism. She is the author of thirty-two books...
