"You look in excellent health to me, Potter, so you will excuse me if I don’t let you off homework today. I assure you that if you die, you need not hand it in” - Minerva McGonagall (J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban) I am in a research-only postdoc, but one morning … Continue reading Media&Religion Class Syllabus
#NiceAcademicWednesday: Make Academia Nice Again
“You will rise to a greater power. We will win ourselves a home. You'll get the power and the glory For ever and ever and ever” (Jesus Christ Superstar) Every Wednesday, after teaching and before ballet class, I sit in my office and read some of the articles I have on my desk … Continue reading #NiceAcademicWednesday: Make Academia Nice Again
#Islamexit: Islamophobia and Twitter after Brexit
Here below a blog post that I wrote for the LSE Brexit Blog. The original post is here . Feel free to let me know your opinion (who hasn't an opinion on Brexit, really?) and thanks again to Ros Taylor for inviting me to the blog. The aftermath of Brexit has been characterized by a spike … Continue reading #Islamexit: Islamophobia and Twitter after Brexit
“Blogging My Religion” on The Classical Ideas Podcast
"The feeling that while men raise their voices in anguish God remains with folded arms, silent.” ― Shūsaku Endō, Silence I really like listening to podcasts. Sometimes I wonder whether I listen to podcasts because I need to clean, travel, and go grocery shopping, or whether I clean, travel, and go grocery shopping mainly because I want … Continue reading “Blogging My Religion” on The Classical Ideas Podcast
Hypermediated Religious Spaces: A Summary of My Book
“When I read a book, I try my best, not always successfully, to let the wall crumble just a bit, the barricade that separates me from the book. I try to be involved” ― Rabih Alameddine, An Unnecessary Woman Last week I received copies of my book, “Blogging My Religion: Secular, Muslim, and Catholic … Continue reading Hypermediated Religious Spaces: A Summary of My Book
ISMRC, FRANKFURT AIRPORT, AND WORK IN PROGRESS
In August I attended the International Society for Media, Religion, and Culture (ISMRC) international conference. It's the biggest religion&media conference and it’s my favorite work-related gathering, after spending great academic and personal moments in Canterbury 2014 and Seoul 2016. This year it was organized in Boulder, where I did my Ph.D., so I was thrilled … Continue reading ISMRC, FRANKFURT AIRPORT, AND WORK IN PROGRESS
Good Muslim, Bad Muslim, Singing Muslim
Maybe she knew about kashf, the unveiling of light. How veiling and unveiling are part of the same process, the same cycle, how both are necessary; how both light and dark are connected moments in the development of the soul in its darkroom. Mohja Kahf, The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf: A Novel. … Continue reading Good Muslim, Bad Muslim, Singing Muslim
