Description

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This book puts together grounded research on the discourses that counter Islamophobic tropes in North America. Dealing with an important and urgent issue of human rights, it explores how public policies, new conceptualizations, and social movements can transform Islamophobia into a positive and healthy discourse. Surprisingly, and apart from selected media studies, empirical investigations about countering xenophobia and hate are rare. The book proposes effective means and mechanisms to help generate debate, dialogue, and discussion concerning policy issues to mitigate Islamophobia. Written in uncomplicated language, this topical book will attract specialist and non-specialist readers interested in the topic of Islamophobia, understanding the roots of Islamophobic hate rhetoric, and how to counter it.

About the Author

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Professor el-Sayed el-Aswad received his doctorate in anthropology from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He has taught at Wayne State University (USA), Tanta University (Egypt), Bahrain University, and United Arab Emirates University (UAEU). He received the CHSS-UAEU Award for excellence in scientific research publication for the 2013-2014 academic year. He served as chairperson of the sociology departments at both the UAEU and Tanta University as well as the editor-in chief of the Journal of Horizons in Humanities and Social Sciences (UAEU). He has published widely in both Arabic and English and is the author of The Quality of Life and Policy Issues among the Middle East and North African Countries (Springer 2019), Muslim Worldviews and Everyday Lives (AltaMira Press, 2012), Religion and Folk Cosmology: Scenarios of the Visible and Invisible in Rural Egypt (Praeger Press, 2002; translated into Arabic in 2005), Symbolic Anthropology (Munsh't al-Ma'raif, Alexandria, 2002), and Folk House in the UAE (al-Bait al-Sha'bi) (UAE University Press, 1996). He has been awarded fellowships from various institutes including the Fulbright Program, the Ford Foundation, the Egyptian government, and the United Arab Emirates University. Professor el-Sayed el-Aswad is a member of the editorial advisory boards of the Digest of Middle East Studies (DOMES), Muslims in Global Societies Series, Tabsir: Insight on Islam and the Middle East, and CyberOrient (online journal about the Middle East). He is a member of the American Anthropological Association, the Middle Eastern Studies of North America, and the American Academy of Religion. He has published 10 books, over 90 papers in peer-reviewed and indexed journals, and over 40 book reviews.