Spotlight on the Humanities: Hussein Rashid on “American Muslims: 500 Years of History” – Princeton Public Library. In 2016, America mourned the passing of one of its heroes, boxing champion Muhammad Ali. His funeral service gave public light to the long history of Muslims in America, and the deep impact…
I will speaking at Hofstra University on a panel on Islamophobia and American Democracy. Please come if you can.
Iona College I will be giving a talk at Iona College on Thursday, Oct. 13, 2016 at 7PM. The talk will be on Muslims in America, Islamophobia, and the Presidential election.
I'll be speaking at BU's Pardee School with their Mizan Project in a conference called "Activism, Advocacy, and Scholarship on Islam in the Digital Realm: Prospects, Progress, and Challenges." My session is labeled "Wild Card," which suits me just fine.
Emanu-El | Calendar. All temple members and their guests are invited to join us for an evening celebrating our commitment to our friends in the Muslim American community. First, Muslim scholar and educator Dr. Hussein Rashid will address the congregation at Sabbath services about his experience of being Muslim in…
The loud discourse on Islam in the United States today marks Muslims as a threat, embroiled in pre-modern sensibilities, and unable to participate in democratic societies. These articulations are often made by recycling colonial and oriental images of Muslim women as oppressed and Muslim men as violent, with objects such…