Event

Asian America Across the Disciplines Series Spring 2021 presents "Combating Islamophobia: Between Throwing Data at the Problem and "You'd Love Us if Only You Knew Us" by Ahmet Selim Tekelioglu, Ph.D. Outreach and Education Director, CAIR-Philadelphia.

Professor Ahmet Selim is a Turkish-American academic and organizer. His research focuses on American Muslim history and identity. He is the Education and Outreach Director at the Philadelphia Chapter of Council on American-Islamic Relations, CAIR-Philadelphia. Dr. Tekelioglu directs the digital Islamic Studies project themaydan.com at George Mason University where he is a research fellow at the Center for Global Islamic Studies. He serves on the boards of POWER Interfaith and JACL-Philadelphia. 

In this lecture with Dr. Selim we will contextualize Islamophobia/ anti-Muslim racism in the US in our current historical moment. Next, we will analyze its different manifestations and examine various tactics employed to counter it. With a specific focus on my experiences from the ground as an organizer in Philadelphia, I will invite us to think around how we could develop a critical perspective on anti-Muslim racism as it impacts AAPI, African, African-American, and other Muslim-Americans.

Hosted by ASAM and ASAM 110-301 Asian American Activism