Interview with Mouhanad Khorchide: “For me, it’s a question of finding a contemporary interpretation of Islam”

Mouhanad Khorchide, originally from Lebanon, has been appointed Professor of Islamic Religious Education Theory at the University of Münster, where he will take over from Sven Kalisch, a controversial figure in Muslim circles. Enquired about his principles of a contemporary interpretation of Islam, Khorchide replied: “This interpretation [of the Koran] should ask what answers were…

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Muslims in European public spheres and the limits of liberal theories of citizenship

Recent events in Europe, from the cartoon crisis in Denmark to the controversy over the construction of minarets in Switzerland, have brought the status of Islam in the secular public sphere to the forefront of European political debates.

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Interview with the Senegalese Sociologist Amsata Sene Last Stop Senegal

Many young Senegalese want to go to Europe to escape unemployment and poverty. They risk their lives to fulfil this goal. Of those that make it, most are deported back to Senegal. Naima El Moussaoui spoke to the Senegalese sociologist Amsata Sene about the causes and the consequences of irregular migration to Europe Mr Sene,…

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Anousheh Ansari: “I am proud of being an Iranian Muslim”

Leading up to Ansari’s 2006 space voyage, the mainstream media dedicated their coverage of her historic flight to professional and technical matters, leaving aside the more controversial question of Ansari’s Iranian and Muslim identity. In this exclusive interview, Anousheh Ansari has the opportunity to tell her side of the story, including what it means to be an Iranian businesswoman and the first female private space explorer […]

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Riva Kastoryano: European conceptions of Islam vis-à-vis Turkey’s candidacy within the EU

Dr. Kastoryano is now director of research at Sciences Politique in Paris, having begun her tenure in 1988. Prior to this affiliation, she taught at Harvard University, and since 1988 has worked as a fellow at Princeton, at the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin and again at Harvard in 2003-2004. Since 2005, she has also acted as an invited professor at the New School for Social Research in New York. Her research interests today fall broadly to the political sociology of Europe, nationalisms and identity.

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