Originally published in the Spring 2013 issue of the Hopkins Undergraduate Research Journal (HURJ).
I was interviewed by Nina Porzucki for Public Radio International’s “The World” radio program, featured in this April 23, 2013 story on being a young American Muslim in the post-9/11 United States.
On the origins of the word “Islam” and how we conceptualize religion.
Originally published in Elias Isquith’s Jubilee on February 20, 2013.
This was my response to Isobel Coleman’s “Gender Disparities, Economic Growth and Islamization in Pakistan” (2004), an assigned reading for my Politics of South Asia class.
Originally published in the JHU Politik on April 21, 2013.
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