Connecticut's education board must prepare optional Islamic and Arab studies materials, while a new group will address ...

The new law directs the state to create the curriculum but school districts can decide if and how they use it.

A new Connecticut law encouraging school districts to provide instruction in Islamic and Arab studies is drawing criticism from several Republican lawmakers and the Connecticut Catholic Conference, ...

Pro-democracy protests in the Middle East have raised questions about what role political Islam will play in new governments in Tunisia and Egypt, as well as others that might emerge from the ...

OVER THE PAST decade, Tariq Ramadan has emerged as one of the most influential “anti-imperialist” Islamic intellectuals in the West. At the heart of Ramadan’s critique is the idea that, while Western ...

While taking Arabic over four semesters here at Princeton, I have learned about the language as well as about the complexities of incorporating lessons about culture and religion into language ...

Ramadan, a professor of Islamic studies at the University of Oxford, is more famous for being the grandson of Hasan al-Banna, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood. In this book, he uses the Arab ...

The authors are at pains to refute the idea that Islam is incompatible with democracy, citing survey data showing that Muslims everywhere aspire to it. They examine six Muslim-majority ...

THE sight of corrupt old Arab tyrants being toppled at the behest of a new generation of young idealists, inspired by democracy, united by Facebook and excited by the notion of opening up to a wider ...

In contrast to the large number of combatants who flocked from all over the world to fight in Syria and Iraq, Israeli Arab jihadists represent a mere epiphenomenon. Since 2011, between 50 and 100 Arab ...