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Paul Elie

January 2, 2019

We Still Live within the Mediated, Alienated World of “The Moviegoer”

In this review for the New Yorker, Berkley Center Senior Fellow Paul Elie takes a look at Walker Percy's The Moviegoer, describing it as "the first work of what we call contemporary American fiction, the earliest novel to render a set of circumstances and an outlook that still feel recognizably ours."

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December 7, 2018

The Rise of Islamic Soft Power

Berkley Center Senior Research Fellow Peter Mandaville examines the rise of Islamic soft power in a Foreign Affairs article co-authored with Shadi Hamid of the Brookings Institution.

Jocelyne Cesari

December 6, 2018

Islam in the West

In a December 2018 interview recorded at Lambeth Palace during the World Muslim Leaders Forum, Berkley Center Senior Fellow Jocelyne Cesari explains why Islam does not reform and discusses the historical and political reasons for the growing fear of Islam in the West.

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The WFLF 2024-2025 fellows and the WFLF team.

April 3, 2025

Women Faith Leaders Fellowship Empowers Sisters to Lead Change

The Women Faith Leaders Fellowship (WFLF), hosted by the Georgetown University Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, is working to create an environment where women faith leaders are positioned at the forefront of innovative and holistic development efforts to advance the well-being of women and girls. The 2024-2025 cohort are currently working on their capstone projects, and will come the Hilltop Campus in May. 

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March 26, 2025

Lucinda Mosher to Moderate Panel on Human Dignity Across Sacred Traditions

On April 10, 2025, Berkley Center Research Fellow Lucinda Mosher will moderate a panel at the "3rd Sacred Languages Symposium: Human Dignity," hosted by Hartford International University for Religion & Peace. The symposium explores how sacred texts across diverse traditions articulate and uphold the concept of human dignity.   

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