ITREB USA presents Critical Conversations: “Faith & Practice – Service as a Way of Life” where we explore the concept of service in Islam and within the Ismaili Tariqah and how service is practiced in our lives. This Critical Conversation features Dr. Hussein Rashid and Zahra Kassam and is moderated…
1 December 2022, 6:30PM EST Tickets Curator Azra Dawood talks with Nathaniel Deutsch, Alyssa Maldonado-Estrada, and Hussein Rashid, three leading scholars of religion in New York City, about the intersections of the public and private, the political, secular and sacred. This program accompanies our new exhibition, City of Faith:Religion, Activism…
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Sectarian conundrums – Newspaper – DAWN.COM. Unfortunately, such content, as Hussein Rashid argues, creates “a normative Islam against which other Muslims are measured”.
Cyber Muslims: Mapping Islamic Digital Media in the Internet Age Through an array of detailed case studies, this book explores the vibrant digital expressions of diverse groups of Muslim cybernauts: religious clerics and Sufis, feminists and fashionistas, artists and activists, hajj pilgrims and social media influencers. These stories span a…
Shoulder to Shoulder hosted a panel discussion featuring Harman Singh from The Sikh Coalition, Taneeza Islam from South Dakota Voices for Peace, and Hussein Rashid representing the Interfaith Center of New York to learn more about what CRT is and isn’t and what we can do to create communities where…
Are the Arts Essential? Across twenty-five highly engaging essays, these luminaries join together to address this question and to share their own ideas, experiences, and ambitions for the arts. Darren Walker discusses the ideals of justice and fairness advanced through the arts; Mary Schmidt Campbell shows us how artists and…
Teaching Critical Religious Studies: Pedagogy and Critique in the Classroom Are you teaching religious studies in the best way possible? Do you inadvertently offer simplistic understandings of religion to undergraduate students, only to then unpick them at advanced levels? This book presents case studies of teaching methods that integrate student…
