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Michael Farquhar and Alex Thurston write that Mauritania’s scholarly culture has meant that Mauritania has much to offer Saudi Arabia—making Mauritania not just a recipient of Saudi Arabian outreach, but also a contributor to Saudi Arabia’s own religious development.

Berkley Forum bloggers consider the role of religion in the contemporary alt-right movement and in the movement’s future, as well as what the rise of the alt-right might imply about the relationship between religion and politics in the United States.

Katherine Marshall outlines how the G20 Interfaith Forum brings religious voices into the global agenda-setting process and recaps the focus of the 2018 gathering, including the challenges of inequality and topics like the future of work and education in a fast-changing world.