Dr Stephen Sheehi on Islamophobia and the Arab Spring, at Nazareth College

The War on Terror and much global conflict are rooted in Islamophobia. Dr Stephen Sheehi has written an excellent book on the subject. We are lucky that he will be in town this week and will be speaking at Nazareth College. Pls don’t miss this!

“Sheehi’s analysis of Islamophobia as an ideological formation brings a much needed dose of fresh air, and analytical clarity, to the burgeoning field of research on how the a deep-seated psychological fear of Islam and Muslims has been produced and circulated to enable not merely war, but a globalized militarism of historically unprecedented scale that most Americans have come to take for granted as necessary and inevitable in the post-September 11 world. A worthy update of Said’s seminal discussion of Orientalism and one that leaves few players in the contemporary foreign policy establishment, in particular so-called liberals, unscathed.” (Mark LeVine, author of Why They Don’t Hate Us and Heavy Metal Islam)

Nazareth College’s Hickey Center for Interfaith Studies and Dialogue presents:

Islamophobia: The Ideological Campaign Against Muslims
When: Wednesday, November 28th at 7:00pm
Where: Gerald G.Wilmot Hall, Arts Center, Nazareth College

The Arab Spring And Foundation Of Modern Arab Identity
When: Thursday, November 29th at 12:15pm
Where: Galisano Academic Center, Room 38, Nazareth College

Speaker: Dr Stephen Sheehi

Stephen Sheehi is Associate Professor of Arabic and Arab Culture and the Director of the Arabic Program at the University of South Carolina. He is also core faculty in USC’s Comparative Literature Program and the Islamic World Cultures Program. In addition to Arabic, he teaches courses on the intellectual, literary, cultural, artistic and food heritage of the modern Arabo-Islamic world. His work interrogates various modalities of self, society, and political economy within Arab modernity but takes particular interest in cultural, literary and intellectual history, photography and art of the Arab Renaissance. Prof. Sheehi’s latest book is Islamophobia: The Ideological Campaign Against Muslims (Atlanta: Clarity Press, 2011). The book examines the rise of anti-Muslim and anti-Arab sentiments in the West following the end of the Cold War.

The Event is free and open to the public. Pls park in Lot A of the Arts Center, Nazareth College.

Co-sponsored by: International Studies Program and Department of Religious Studies

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