UPCOMING EVENTS
February 13, 2012
Equality, Freedom, & Religion
February 15, 2012
Education and Social Justice International Summer Research Fellowships 2011 Report Launch and 2012 Call for Applications
March 1, 2012
Religious Freedom: Why Now? Defending an Embattled Human Right
April 11, 2012
Religious Freedom and Equality: Emerging Conflicts in North America and Europe
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CENTER NEWS
February 8, 2012Presidential Candidate Rick Santorum Signs Religious Freedom Pledge Drafted by RFP Director Tom Farr
February 8, 2012
Jose Casanova Giving Ensign Lecture at Yale
February 7, 2012
Katherine Marshall at the UN for World Interfaith Harmony Week
February 6, 2012
Fitchburg State University Invites RFP Scholar Monica Duffy Toft for International Studies Speaker Series
February 3, 2012
Katherine Marshall Blogs: Women at Risk in an Unequal World
February 2, 2012
Research on Forgiveness Begins in Uganda for RFP Scholar Daniel Philpott
February 1, 2012
Call for Applications: Education and Social Justice International Summer Research Fellowships 2012
February 1, 2012
Catholic News Agency Quotes RFP Director Tom Farr on the Obama Administration's Stance Towards Religious Freedom
January 30, 2012
Taking Women and Religion Seriously: Intersecting Paths
January 27, 2012
Between Culture and Religion: The Case of Female Genital Cutting
January 23, 2012
RFP Scholar Will Inboden on the Obama Administration and Religious Freedom
January 10, 2012
Silenced: How Apostasy and Blasphemy Codes are Choking Freedom Worldwide
January 9, 2012
RFP Director Tom Farr Quoted in The Globe and Mail Editorial
September 15, 2009
'Journey into America' Screening and Ramadan Iftar Dinner
"Journey into America" is a project led by Ambassador Akbar Ahmed examining the evolution of American identity through the lens of the American Muslim community. Sponsored by the Brookings Institution, American University, and Georgetown University's Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, the project investigates how Islam tests the boundaries of the core American values of freedom, civil liberties, and society's acceptance of others. The experience of the Muslim community after 9/11 in America serves as the litmus test for how non-Muslim Americans are defining themselves.
The information and analyses from the project are featured in the book Journey into America: The Challenge of Islam (Brookings Press, 2009) and in the documentary of the project, also entitled Journey into America. For more information, please see articles in the Huffington Post and CNN.com, and The Riz Khan Show on Al-Jazeera English.
Featuring
Ambassador Akbar Ahmed
Ambassador Akbar Ahmed is currently the Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies at American University in Washington, DC, the First Distinguished Chair of Middle East and Islamic Studies at the US Naval Academy in Annapolis, and a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. A leading scholar of Islam, he has taught at Princeton, Harvard, and Cambridge Universities, and is the author of over a dozen award-winning books, including Discovering Islam, which was the basis of the BBC six-part TV series called “Living Islam.” His most recent book is Journey into America, an in-depth examination of Islam in the US. Ambassador Ahmed was one of the 138 Muslim signatories in October 2007 of A Common Word Between Us and You, a letter addressed to Christian leaders in an appeal for peace and cooperation between the two religions.
