Famed American Islamic Scholar Hamza Yusuf’s participation in the Trump Administration’s Commission on Unalienable Rights provokes deep debate

The appointment of Hamza Yusuf to the Commission on Unalienable Rights (CUR) in July, has lead to a sleuth of articles criticizing not only this particular decision, but the questioning of Yusuf’s position within the American Muslim community. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo set up the Commission to examine and then advise Trump on how…

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‘Decolonising the university’ in Germany: Debates and challenges

American and British universities in particular have been rocked by a wave of student-driven contestation focused on the content of curricula, on the predominance of white (and frequently male) authors and faculty, as well as on institutions’ enmenshment in colonial exploitation and racialised hierarchies. Students and activists have begun to voice similar challenges in Germany;…

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