Religion & Politics

Sweden Democrats party leader Jimmie Akesson speaks on election evening at Kristallen restaurant in central Stockholm, Sweden September 9, 2018. TT News Agency/Anders Wiklund/via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. SWEDEN OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN SWEDEN.

Immigration

The Rise of Sweden Democrats: Islam, Populism and the End of Swedish Exceptionalism

Danielle Lee Tomson

Wednesday, March 25, 2020

A supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood and ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi holds up a copy of the Koran during a protest in front of Al Istkama mosque at Giza Square, south of Cairo, August 19, 2013. REUTERS/Louafi Larbi (EGYPT - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST)

Islamist Movements

The lesser threat: How the Muslim Brotherhood views Shias and Shiism

Shadi Hamid

Mediterranean Politics Tuesday, March 10, 2020

The Chinese national flag flies outside the mosque at the Xinjiang International Grand Bazar during a government organised trip in Urumqi, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, China, January 3, 2019. Picture taken January 3, 2019. TO MATCH INSIGHT CHINA-XINJIANG/ REUTERS/Ben Blanchard - RC17EBB289F0

Order from Chaos

Understanding China’s ‘preventive repression’ in Xinjiang

Sheena Chestnut Greitens, Myunghee Lee, and Emir Yazici

Wednesday, March 4, 2020

Marine Le Pen - Presidente du Rassemblement National

Religion & Politics

Muslims and the secular city: How right-wing populists shape the French debate over Islam

Catherine Fieschi

Friday, February 28, 2020

Reports

People hold banners reading "Refugees and Muslims are welcome" during a memorial service held for those killed on Saturday by a 22-year-old gunman, in Copenhagen February 16, 2015. Danish police said on Monday they had charged two people with aiding the man suspected of shooting dead two people in attacks on a synagogue and an event promoting free speech in Copenhagen at the weekend. The shootings, which Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt called acts of terrorism, sent shockwaves through Denmark and have been compared to the January attacks in Paris by Islamist militants that killed 17. REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger (DENMARK - Tags: CRIME LAW POLITICS RELIGION CIVIL UNREST) - LR2EB2G1L133Y

Religion & Politics

Islam as a “floating signifier”: Right-wing populism and perceptions of Muslims in Denmark

Susi Meret and Andreas Beyer Gregersen

Wednesday, July 24, 2019

Anti-immigration party Alternative for Germany (AfD) chairwoman Frauke Petry (R) and party member Armin Paul Hampel (background R) meet with Nurhan Soykan, first deputy chairwoman of the Central Council of Muslims in Germany and Sadiqu Al-Mousllie (2nd L) member of the Syrian opposition in Germany, at a hotel in Berlin, Germany May 23, 2016. REUTERS/Axel Schmidt - LR1EC5N0S6B8U

Religion & Politics

Right-wing populism in Germany: Muslims and minorities after the 2015 refugee crisis

Jeffrey Gedmin

Wednesday, July 24, 2019

Syrian migrants walk along a railway track after crossing the Hungarian-Serbian border into Hungary, near Roszke, August 26, 2015. Hungary's government has started to construct a 175-km-long (110-mile-long) fence on its border with Serbia in order to halt a massive flow of migrants who enter the EU via Hungary and head to western Europe. REUTERS/Laszlo Balogh - GF10000182998

Religion & Politics

Anti-Muslim populism in Hungary: From the margins to the mainstream

Péter Krekó, Bulcsú Hunyadi, and Patrik Szicherle

Wednesday, July 24, 2019

Muslims hold Friday prayers in front of the Colosseum in Rome, Italy October 21, 2016, to protest against the closure of unlicensed mosques. REUTERS/Tony Gentile - D1BEUIGTQKAA

Religion & Politics

Muslims in the West and the rise of the new populists: The case of Italy

Manuela Caiani

Wednesday, July 24, 2019

Dutch far-right politician Geert Wilders of the PVV party reacts as a dog barks at him as he campaigns in Valkenburg, Netherlands, March 11, 2017. REUTERS/Dylan Martinez - RC1F934580E0

Religion & Politics

“The biggest problem in the Netherlands”: Understanding the Party for Freedom’s politicization of Islam

Koen Damhuis

Wednesday, July 24, 2019

Blog Posts

Faithful pray during a Sunday Mass in Saint Joseph Cathedral in Bambari, Central African Republic, October 18, 2015. Pope Francis' first Africa trip will highlight the problems of building dialog between Christianity and Islam as both religions grow fast on the continent, threatening to widen an already volatile fault line there between them. Picture taken October 18. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic

Future Development

Higher power to deliver: The overlooked nexus between religion and development

Paul M. Bisca and Rebekka Grun

Tuesday, February 25, 2020

A sentry box is pictured on the site of the former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz II-Birkenau, during the ceremonies marking the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the camp and International Holocaust Victims Remembrance Day, in Brzezinka near Oswiecim, Poland, January 27, 2020. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel

Order from Chaos

75 years after Auschwitz, anti-Semitism is on the rise

Walter Reich

Tuesday, January 28, 2020

Two Muslim women take pictures after the first Friday prayers during the month of Ramadan at Diyanet Center of America in Lanham, Maryland, U.S., May 10, 2019. REUTERS/Amr Alfiky - RC15CA4BC8D0

Order from Chaos

For religious American Muslims, hostility from the right and disdain from the left

Shadi Hamid

Monday, August 5, 2019

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Experts

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Multimedia

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

Order from Chaos

Islam as statecraft: How governments use religion in foreign policy

Eliora Katz

Tuesday, February 19, 2019

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

Podcast Episode

How Saudi Arabia and Iran use Islam in foreign policy

Shadi Hamid, Peter Mandaville, and Fred Dews

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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Experts debate the intersections of Islam, democracy, pluralism, and citizenship in the Middle East

William McCants and Rashid Dar

Tuesday, October 3, 2017

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Reports

“Cause of Death” – A film screening and panel discussion with the director

In the shadow of impeachment hearings, dueling visions for the nation

Islam as statecraft: How governments use religion in foreign policy

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