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African would-be immigrants (front) pray inside a mosque near the CETI (Short-stay Immigrant Centre) during the fasting month of Ramadan in Spain's North African enclave of Melilla October 10, 2005. Morocco, under pressure to stem illegal immigration to Spain and accused by rights groups of mistreating migrants, began flying detained Africans to Senegal and Mali on Monday, government officials said. 'We have already flown 140 illegal migrants back home in Senegal this morning and we are preparing a flight of 140 others also to Senegal soon from Oujda,' a senior official told Reuters. REUTERS/Andrea Comas - RP2DSFIXLEAB

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Morocco, commander of the (African) faithful?

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Monday, April 8, 2019

Worshippers attend morning prayers of Eid al-Fitr holiday, marking the end of the holy month of Ramadan, at al Biar mosque in Algiers, Algeria, July 17, 2015.REUTERS/Ramzi Boudina - GF10000161786

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Moderate Islam in the Maghreb: How US foreign policy shapes Islamist contention

Vish Sakthivel

Thursday, April 4, 2019

Education Plus Development

Why the spread of public education is unlikely to yield a secular world

David Baker

Wednesday, March 20, 2019

Iraqi soldiers stand guard near an election poster featuring pictures of Shi'ite leader Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani (L), and slain clerics Ayatollah Mohammad Baqir al-Hakim (C) and Ayatollah Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr in the holy city of Najaf December 6, 2005. Iraqis will go to the polls December 15 to elect their first full, four-year parliament since the fall of Saddam Hussein. REUTERS/Ali Abu Shish - RP2DSFIILWAB

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Iraq’s failed uprising after the 1979 Iranian revolution

Ranj Alaaldin

Monday, March 11, 2019

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Supporters of the anti-Islam movement PEGIDA (Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West) attend a demonstration in Dresden, Germany, October 21, 2018. REUTERS/David W. Cerny - RC126AC48970

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The role of Islam in European populism: How refugee flows and fear of Muslims drive right-wing support

Shadi Hamid

February 2019

Boys read the Koran inside Markaz Al-Madrasa Al-Islamia, an Islamic seminary and orphanage, during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan in Shadipora on the outskirts of Srinagar May 20, 2018. REUTERS/Danish Ismail - RC14F69A05E0

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Islam as statecraft: How governments use religion in foreign policy

Peter Mandaville and Shadi Hamid

November 2018

Continuity and change in U.S.-Japan economic relations

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How to Islamize an Islamic Republic: Jamaat-e-Islami in its own words

Asif Luqman Qazi

Tuesday, April 25, 2017

Alia Tunisi (L) and Sharon Suval (2nd L), first grade school teachers, talk to their students during reading hour at the Hand in Hand Arab Jewish bilingual school in Jerusalem December 3, 2014. The Hand in Hand school in Jerusalem presents an almost too-perfect scene in a tense and divided city, where Jews and Arabs do daily business but rarely befriend one other. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun

Religion & Politics

Tribes, identity, and individual freedom in Israel

Natan Sachs and Brian Reeves

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Supporters of the far right Bayit Yehudi party headed by Naftali Bennett celebrate at the party's headquarters in Ramat Gan, near Tel Aviv January 22, 2013. Hawkish Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu emerged the bruised winner of Israel's election on Tuesday, claiming victory despite unexpected losses to resurgent centre-left challengers. Netanyahu has traditionally looked to religious, conservative parties for backing and is widely expected to seek out self-made millionaire Bennett, who heads the Jewish Home party and stole much of the limelight during the campaign. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun

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Privatizing religion: The transformation of Israel’s Religious-Zionist community

Yair Ettinger

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Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the Labour Party, leaves his home in London, Britain, February 26, 2019. REUTERS/Peter Nicholls - RC1AD4B28A90

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Anti-Semitism, British politics, and the indecency of Jeremy Corbyn

James Kirchick

Thursday, March 7, 2019

A view of minarets of Prophet Mohammad's Mosque in the holy city of Medina January 3, 2007. Pilgrims from all over the world gather in the holy city of Mecca each year for the five-day haj, which is a duty for every able-bodied Muslim at least once in a lifetime. REUTERS/Ali Jarekji (SAUDI ARABIA) FOR BEST QUALITY IMAGE: ALSO SEE GF2E5440NM001 - GM1DUHYIKUAA

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Islam as statecraft: How governments use religion in foreign policy

Eliora Katz

Tuesday, February 19, 2019

Supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood and deposed Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi shout slogans at a rally against an Egyptian court's decision to sentence Mursi and other leaders to death, as they march under street decoration to mark the holy month of Ramadan in Al Haram street near Giza square, south of Cairo, Egypt June 19, 2015. Mursi will appeal against a conviction for violence, kidnapping and torture imposed by a court over the killing of protesters, his lawyers were quoted as saying by state media on Thursday. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh - GF10000133229

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What Iran’s 1979 revolution meant for the Muslim Brotherhood

Shadi Hamid and Sharan Grewal

Thursday, January 24, 2019

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Indonesian Muslims attend Friday prayers at the Istiqlal mosque in Jakarta July 23, 2010. Indonesia's Muslims learned last week they have been praying in the wrong direction, after the country's highest Islamic authority said its directive on the direction of Mecca actually had people facing Africa. Muslims are supposed to face the holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia during prayer and the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) issued an edict in March stipulating westward was the correct direction from the world's most populous Muslim country. It has now said the true direction is north-west. REUTERS/Supri (INDONESIA - Tags: RELIGION ODDLY IMAGES OF THE DAY) - GM1E67N18IZ01

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How Saudi Arabia and Iran use Islam in foreign policy

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Friday, January 11, 2019

On September 16-18, 2017, the Brookings Institution, in conjunction with the State of Qatar, will convene the 13th annual U.S.-Islamic World Forum in New York, NY. The theme of this years Forum is Crisis and Cooperation.

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Cairo University students shout slogans against the government and flash the 'V' and Rabaa signs after the verdict of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's trial, at the university's campus in Giza, on the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt, November 30, 2014. To match Special Report EGYPT-STUDENTS/ REUTERS/Staff/File Photo - RTX2F3NV

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Morocco, commander of the (African) faithful?

Moderate Islam in the Maghreb: How US foreign policy shapes Islamist contention

Why the spread of public education is unlikely to yield a secular world

Iraq’s failed uprising after the 1979 Iranian revolution

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The role of Islam in European populism: How refugee flows and fear of Muslims drive right-wing support

Islam as statecraft: How governments use religion in foreign policy

How to Islamize an Islamic Republic: Jamaat-e-Islami in its own words

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Privatizing religion: The transformation of Israel’s Religious-Zionist community

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Islam as statecraft: How governments use religion in foreign policy

What Iran’s 1979 revolution meant for the Muslim Brotherhood

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