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Islam and Muslims in an Age of ISIS and Islamophobia

with Professor Omid Safi Director, Islamic Studies Center Duke University A public event sponsored by the UCLA Islamic Studies-MRI Fund Co-sponsored by the Center for Near Eastern Studies (CNES) and the Center for the Study of Religion (CSR) Fifteen years after the horrific attacks of 9/11, the American Muslim community and the American democratic experiment both...

The Arabic Freud: Psychoanalysis and Islam in Modern Egypt

Presented by Omnia El Shakry, Associate Professor of History at UC Davis What might it mean to think through psychoanalysis and Islam together, not as a problem, but as a creative encounter of ethical engagement? Traversing literatures minor and major, Omnia El Shakry shows how postwar thinkers in Egypt translated and blended psychoanalytic theories with...