Category: Media Appearances

A fun little interview I did for Columbia College Today.   What, if anything, about your College experience would you do over? I tried to go to as many talks as I could on campus, because we had so many great speakers. I always left feeling inspired and interested. I…Continue readingColumbia Take 5

Ms. Marvel’s America: Looking toward a superhero in challenging times | Goshen College. “Superheroes, of course, can’t swoop in and save us in times of crisis. But they can demonstrate ways for us to help each other with the tools we do have at hand,” says Goshen College Professor of…Continue readingMs. Marvel’s America: Looking toward a superhero in challenging times | Goshen College

This week we feature selections from the December 8, 2019 Sounds of Faith concert at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History. According to Dr. Hussein Rashid a religious literacy expert and cultural competency consultant who teaches at the New School in New York,  if you don’t appreciate the religious…Continue readingSounds of Faith concert at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History

Scholars of religion and biblical literature object to having conference badges coded and scanned. Hussein Rashid, independent scholar of religion, also tweeted that he’d seen nothing in his conference registration documents to suggest QR codes were a possibility. The society was therefore retroactively changing its terms of attendance, he said,…Continue readingScholars of religion and biblical literature object to having conference badges coded and scanned

NYCC ‘19: Wilson, Shammas, Alfageeh & Henderson on Orientalism in comics & the White, Western gaze – The Beat. Rashid began proceedings by citing theorist Edward Said and describing Orientalism as “a Western style for dominating, restructuring, and having authority over the Orient.” The othering that Orientalism does to Asian…Continue readingNYCC ‘19: Wilson, Shammas, Alfageeh & Henderson on Orientalism in comics & the White, Western gaze – The Beat

Discovering Islam in New York City: a tour of its Muslim History | the.Ismaili. Hussein Rashid, professor at Columbia University and himself once the coordinator for CPOI, said he arranged this tour for Jamati members in order to “seize opportunities to expand our knowledge,” following Mawlana Hazar Imam’s general guidance.…Continue readingDiscovering Islam in New York City: a tour of its Muslim History | the.Ismaili

My Salaam – Bringing comics to heal and preserve culture in Syrian refugee camps. CYRIC’s founder, A. David Lewis, is himself a comics and graphic novel author. He started the organisation as a way to help Syrian refugee children by preserving their cultural heritage. “Specifically, it focuses on traditional Syrian…Continue readingMy Salaam – Bringing comics to heal and preserve culture in Syrian refugee camps

Breaking fast and drawing together: The iftar at Ramadan with Hussein Rashid – Religion News Service. The holy month of Ramadan is marked by a well-known 30-day fast from sunup to sundown. When the sun goes down, the fast is traditionally broken with water and three dates. To unpack some…Continue readingBreaking fast and drawing together: The iftar at Ramadan with Hussein Rashid – Religion News Service