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This year, the AbuSulayman Center’s annual conference will bring together both scholars and practitioners for an extended discussion of the many ways in which Muslim women are leading, shaping, and supporting their communities. It will examine the challenges they face in these leadership roles in a world where Muslim women continue to struggle against both patriarchal and Islamophobic assumptions about their agency and influence.

We are sharing the American Academy of Religion statement on the Crisis in Israel and Palestine dated October 24, 2023.

The AbuSulayman Center for Global Islamic Studies at George Mason University is hosting the Seventh Annual Graduate Student Book Review Colloquium on Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies virtually on December 7, 2023. This year, the event has a specific theme in partnership with the Black American Muslim Internationalism Project (BAMI), led by Dr. Aminah Al-Deen. This panel is exclusively for undergraduate applicants. Applications must be submitted by September 15, 2023, at 11:59pm EST.

Mohammad Salama, George Mason University professor of Arabic, was recently appointed Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences. Professor Salama, who is a core faculty member of the AbuSulayman Center for Global Islamic Studies steering committee, previously served as department chair for Modern and Classical Languages.

The George Mason University, Institute for Immigration Research (IIR) invites applications for a one-year, renewable (up to three years) position as the Shrivastava Family Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Immigration Research. The successful candidate’s areas of specialization will include immigration, economic, social and political consequences of migration, quality of life, and the overall issues related to immigration policy. This position is critical to the success of the IIR and requires the full understanding and active participation in fulfilling the mission of the IIR.

Town Hall Meeting: Transferring Legacies on June 3rd from 5:30-7:30 pm at Masjid Muhammad with Dr. Aminah Beverly (McCloud) Al-Deen, A. Peter Bailey, Ibrahim Mu’min, Dr. Muhammad Fraser-Rahim, Dr. Talib M. Shareef, and facilitated by Fitrah Muhammad. This event is hosted by BAMI in collaboration with the AbuSulayman Center for Global Islamic Studies at George Mason University and Masjid Muhammad. 

The Institute of Middle East and Islamic Countries Studies at Marmara University, in collaboration with the AbuSulayman Center for Global Islamic Studies at George Mason University, invites proposals for the third meeting of the Annual Graduate Colloquium in Middle Eastern and Ottoman Studies to be held on August 11-12, 2023 in Istanbul. Applications are due by May 20, 2023.

The Center For Islam In The Contemporary World at Shenandoah University is accepting applications for their graduate student institute program taking place May 30 - June 13, 2023, at George Mason University. Applications are due by April 24, 2023.

Cher Weixia Chen, associate professor in the School of Integrative Studies, Nathaniel Greenberg, associate professor in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages, and Mills Kelly, professor of history and director of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (RRCHNM), will spend time abroad thanks to Fulbright U.S. Scholar Awards.

The best-selling author of Reading Lolita in Tehran will discuss freedom of expression, the true purpose of education, and reading dangerously.