Category: Media Appearances

Qawwalis, Found Sounds, and Benghazi: Locating the Sacred in a New York Church | On Being. The combination of Yoon’s voice and the electronic components helped create a bridge between the trappings of the modern and sense of spirituality as being ancient. The stories were inverted, and technology was ancient,…Continue readingQawwalis, Found Sounds, and Benghazi: Locating the Sacred in a New York Church | On Being

Muslim New Yorkers Learn to Pick Their Battles – WNYC. “There’s no longer a sense of Muslim and American, but Muslims as Americans,” said Rashid, “and I think that’s a really important part of that political engagement. And I think, looking at France, you still see this isolation, this difference.…Continue readingMuslim New Yorkers Learn to Pick Their Battles – WNYC

While the filmmakers behind the anti-Islam film, ‘Innocence of Muslims,’ may not have intended to cause protests and violence across the Muslim World, they did clearly intend to perpetuate Islamophobia. And while their film may not have succeeded in directly doing so, it seems as if the subsequent violent protests…Continue readingThe Takeaway: How Riots Abroad Affect Muslims at Home

Behind anti-Muslim video 'Innocence of Muslims:' what L.A. County knows but isn't saying | Alaska Dispatch. Professor Rashid says the moviemakers’ plan rested, in part, “on everyone being as full of hate as themselves. Fortunately, that's not the way the world actually is.”

Ramadan 2012: A HuffPost Community Observation Of The Islamic Month Of Fasting (LIVEBLOG). HuffPost Religion community member Hussein Rashid is tweeting the Qur’an during Ramadan using the hashtag #ttQuran. This beautiful verse about the Virgin Mary shows some of the commonality between Christianity and Islam. You can follow Hussein on…Continue readingRamadan 2012: A HuffPost Community Observation Of The Islamic Month Of Fasting (LIVEBLOG)

Pakistan: Neo-Sufi and the American Jugni, Part 2 | Clocktower Gallery & Radio | ARTonAIR.org. Part two of Neo-Sufi and the American Jugni focuses on the music of Arooj Aftab and the instrument Arif Lohar always has by his side, the chimta, or “musical fire tongs.”  On April 28th, 2012,…Continue readingPakistan: Neo-Sufi and the American Jugni, Part 2 | Clocktower Gallery & Radio | ARTonAIR.org

Pakistan: Neo-Sufi and the American Jugni, Part 1 | Clocktower Gallery & Radio | ARTonAIR.org. On April 28th, 2012, Pakistani musical icon M. Arif Lohar and Pakistani American musician Arooj Aftab brought their passionate blend of traditional Punjabi music, Sufi spiritual poetry and contemporary rock and pop music to Asia…Continue readingARTonAir: Neo-Sufi and the American Jugni, Part 1

I did two interviews for Odyssey Network’s Faith in Perspective. One on Muslims in America and one on Muslim Misperceptions.
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What Does Islamic Music Have to do With Blues, Jazz, and Surf Rock? More Than You Think. | FrontRow. What do Bruce Springsteen, Mahalia Jackson, and John Coltrane all have in common? Well according to Dr. Hussein Rashid of Hofstra University  each bear witness to the Islamic Contribution to American…Continue readingWhat Does Islamic Music Have to do With Blues, Jazz, and Surf Rock?

American Muslims and the NYPD Trust Deficit. Do you feel comfortable living your life as a Muslim in America?   I do. I am firm enough in my faith and happy enough to be an American that I know what the NYPD is doing is wrong. They will not take…Continue readingQuoted: Patheos: American Muslims and the NYPD Trust Deficit