The Center of Muslim Experience in the US, based at Arizona State University and led by Yasmin Saikia and Chad Haines, is a center conducting research about American Muslims and their significant contributions to American society and culture.

Jacqueline Fewkes is an anthropology professor at the Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College of Florida Atlantic University.  She is a cultural anthropologist who has conducted research in many parts of the world, including India, Indonesia, the Maldives, Saudi Arabia and the United States. Recently, she led the American Mosques Project, a study of mosques in the […]

Saeed Khan is a professor teaching in Near Eastern Studies at Wayne State University. He argued in 2023 that caught between the competing narratives of ever increasing toxicity in the culture wars, Muslims need to be wary of the pitfalls of choosing sides ahead of the elections.

Asra Nomani is an Indian American journalist and Federalist contributor, who — among other things — is outspoken in opposing critical race theory and gender diversity in education, which she has described as divisive ideologies.

Throughout 2024 — and, really, any time politics are in the news, which is always — we will see familiar narratives about what religious voters are doing. Pundits will ask who they are backing and why, what messaging and issues mobilize them. What will emerge is a version of events that conflates political conservatism with […]

The Bridge Initiative is a multi-year research project on Islamophobia housed in Georgetown University. The Bridge Initiative aims to disseminate original and accessible research, offers engaging analysis and commentary on contemporary issues, and hosts a wide repository of educational resources to inform the general public about Islamophobia.

Arsalan Iftikhar is an international human rights lawyer and author of the book Fear of a Muslim Planet: Global Islamophobia in the New World Order. Iftikhar has also been a faculty member at Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, where he researched and wrote about Islamophobia as a senior research fellow for The Bridge […]

Imran Awan is a professor of criminology at Birmingham City University. He is one of the United Kingdom’s leading criminologists and experts on Islamophobia and countering extremism.

Irene Zempi is an associate professor in criminology at Nottingham Trent University. Zempi is also chair of the British Society of Criminology Hate Crime Network, the lead of the NTU Hate Crime Research Group. She has published multiple books on Islamophobia.