In this episode of the Radio ReOrient podcast, Dr. Shehla Khan, Dr. Sher Ali Tareen, and Salman Sayyid discuss the ongoing crisis in Pakistan under Gaza’s looming shadow . The latest exacerbation of the crisis comes with the general elections of February 2024, which represent an electoral heist of historically unprecedented proportions followed by the regime’s concerted efforts to normalize the results. This conversation ties the current political climate to broader global issues, including...

In this episode of Radio ReOrient, Salman Sayyid, with Hizer Mir as your host, discusses why Gaza matters. This leads to a wide range of discussions with topics ranging from ongoing support form Washington, London and other Western governments for Israel, how the notion of ummah deployed in light of the attack on Gaza has disrupted the nation state model (amongst others) and what is meant by the concept of Palestinisation of Muslims and how that can be resisted.

Islamophobia is a global phenomenon found not only among the international 'usual suspects' of gross and systemic human and civil rights violators but also among established liberal democracies that present themselves as custodians of the international legal order. In this episode of Radio ReOrient, we talk to Saul Takahashi, an international human rights lawyer and academic who navigates the intersections between Islamophobia and the international liberal order. He describes his odyssey...

This episode of Radio Reorient is based on an event held on Islamophobia and Emancipation. This event was held to discuss the definition of Islamophobia that was put forth by the people’s definition in the UK… Islamophobia is a form of racism against Muslimness and perceived Muslimness. In this intriguing episode of Radio ReOrient, Kawter Najib, Abdoolkarim Vakil, Salman Sayyid, hosted by myself, Hizer Mir engage in a discussion that explores Islamophobia, its definition and emancipation.

In this episode, Kawter Najib sits with Hizer Mir to return to the topic of Islamophobia in France. In this discussion we talk about Kawter’s own experiences of Islamophobia in France as well as the Islamophobic murder of French-Algerian teenager Nahel Merzouk in the summer.

In this episode of Radio ReOrient, Rebecca Ruth Gould, Claudia Radiven and your host Salman Sayyid, talk about some of the issues raised by Rebecca’s new book Erasing Palestine (https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/2903-erasing-palestine).

In the realm of popular culture, representations of ancient Greeks and Romans abound in the West and Western adjacent societies. Classics, primarily focused on the study of Greeks and Romans, serve as Western history's foundational narrative. However, this narrative tends to create a timeline that excludes Muslim contributions and unintentionally supports the colonial-racial agenda of the West. In this intriguing episode of Radio ReOrient, Dr Marchella Ward from the Open University and...

In this episode, Naoki Yamamoto, assistant professor in Turkic Studies at Marmara University sits with Hizer Mir to discuss Sufism and manga with an eye towards the possible development of an Islamicate manga. Manga is a quintessentially Japanese style of comics and graphic novels. Naoki is working towards an Islamicate version of manga in order to contribute to a growing global Islamicate culture.

This episode features the second part of a series on the Political Struggle in Pakistan. Professor Salman Sayyid, Dr. Sher Ali Tareen and Dr. Shehla Khan critically explore liberalism, populism and secularism. Focusing on how these concepts are key to understanding the deep crisis engulfing Pakistan, but are often construed in simplistic binaries rooted in orientalism that impoverish the debate, and impede the search for a resolution. In contrast, the podcast seeks to shift the debate to a...

In this episode of Radio ReOrient, Salman Sayyid and Sher Ali Tareen converse with Shehla Khan about the political, economic, and constitutional crisis that has been intensifying in Pakistan since the ouster of Prime Minister Imran Khan in April 2022.

In this episode, we listen in on a symposium on Muslimness organised by the Critical Muslim Studies project. The symposium featured Abdoolkarim Vakil and Ovamir Anjum as the speakers and was chaired by Mona Makinejad.

In this episode, Salman Sayyid and Haroon Bashir sit with Fatima Rajina to discuss Muslim communities in Argentina and Chile.

In this episode, Hizer Mir sits with Salman Sayyid to discuss the divine, texts (primary and secondary) within Islam and power.

In this episode, Hizer Mir sits with Adam Olowo to discuss the myth of religious violence. We also discuss how far the category of religion can be used outside of Europe/the West.

In this episode, Hizer Mir sits with Murad Idris for the second part of their discussion on his book “War for Peace”. In this part, ideas pertaining to war for peace in the thought of Al-Farabi and Qutb are discussed.

In this episode, Ayesha Khan and Dr. Shehla Khan continue their conversation with Dr. Sher Ali Tareen, relating his writings on Imranophobia to broader questions of decoloniality, secularity, culture, and the trajectory of events in Pakistan.

This podcast features Ayesha Khan and Dr. Shehla Khan in conversation with Dr. Sher Ali Tareen, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Department Chair of Religious Studies at Franklin Marshall College, and author of the widely acclaimed volume, Defending Muhammad in Modernity. Taking its cue from the political crisis that has erupted in Pakistan since the ouster of Prime Minister Imran Khan in April 2022, the episode traverses the various articles that Dr. Tareen published prior to and...

In this episode, coming to you from Istanbul, we listen on the last plenary session of the inaugural conference of the International Islamophobia Studies Research Association.

In this episode, Ismail Patel sits with Hatem Bazian to discuss Palestine, the Arab world and global civil society. Their discussion touches upon a range of issues such as relations between Israel and the wider Arab world as well as how the Palestinian struggle is viewed within global civil society.

In this episode, the last of season 7, Ayesha Khan sits with Salman Sayyid to talk about recent events in Pakistan and how they relate both the idea of Pakistan and Kemalism/Coloniality.

In this episode, Hizer Mir sits with Murad Idris to discuss his work War for peace. In this part, issues related to defining the idea of war for peace, essentialism and the political are discussed.

In this episode of Forgotten Ummah, Dr. Baptiste Brodard speaks with Prof. Salman Sayyid and Dr. Haroon Bashir about the history of Islam in Mexico and Columbia and the development of Latin-Islamic identities.

In this episode of In Conversation, Hizer Mir and Sumeyye Sakarya sit together to discuss Islamism, whether Islamism is an acceptable term to use and the contours of the discourse known as Kemalism.

In this episode, the second to mark the launch of the new Critical Muslim Studies website (link in comments), Hizer Mir sits with Professor Salman Sayyid to reflect on the proliferation of Critical Muslim Studies and discuss some of its key themes. This discussion touches upon post-Orientalism and Eurocentricism.