Addressing Islamophobia in Curricula

khaled beydoun

Khaled Beydoun

Workshop Overview:
This workshop was designed to:

  • Initiate an interdisciplinary dialogue on how to better address Islamophobia and various forms of marginality both in theory and practice
  • Develop teaching materials to judiciously integrate Islam and marginality related issues in our curricula.
  • Create resource centers to foster research and educate Ƶ Community on Islam and Islamophobia.
  • Design short/long term plans to address both in theory & practice Islam and marignality related issues

Presentation:

  • Between Indigence, Islamophobia, and Erasure: Poor and Muslim in “War on Terror” America ()

More Information:

  • Breakout Session: Education

    This session was designed for participants to brainstorm, strategize, and plan new approaches to teaching ‘against’ Islamophobia in higher education. Additionally, participants collaboratively developed a long term plan to support building critical frameworks for their students. The emphasis was on sustainable, counter- hegemonic pedagogical practices that are cross-disciplinary and inclusive. 

  • Peer Mentoring and Networking

    • Training students
    • Mobilizing pre-existing interests
    • CETL funds/student workers

    Curriculum

    • Stand alone (Gen Ed) course o Unit/module
    • CaseStudies
    • Websites and Resources 
    • Using Ƶ Avenues (CETL) resources
    • 1st Year Learning Community
    • Conference & Diversity Inclusion
    • Focus on interdisciplinary & intersectional approaches

    Disrupt & Deconstruct/Rebuild & Reconstruct

    • Interdisciplinary Unit
    • On Islam/Islamophobia
    • ‘Take on the road’, Beyond Ƶ.
    • Intersectional Approaches
    • Disrupt the Binary (Either a ‘violent extremist’ or ‘non-religious moderate’
    • Structural Racism & Discrimination
    • Orientalism
    • Focus on Intersectional Pedagogy
  • This session was designed to place an emphasis on sustainable, counter-hegemonic
    theories that are cross disciplinary and inclusive. Participants brainstormed about research methodologies, available resources and strategized on how to create resource centers to foster research and educate Ƶ Community on Islam and Islamophobia. Additionally, participants collaboratively developed a long term plan to build critical frameworks that foster students’ critical thinking and research skills. 
    • Letti Volpp
    • Asma Barlas
    • Yvonne Haddad
    • Leila Ahmed
    • Sarah Gualtieri
    • Fatima Mernissi
    • Talal Asad
    • Amina Wadud
    • Abdullah An-Naim (Emory)
    • Edward Said
    • Hamid Dabashi
    • Jack Shaheen
    • Mamood Mamadani
    • Mustafa Akyol
    • Sayeed Hussein Nasr
    • Kambiz Ghaneabassi
    • Silvian Diouf
    • Edward Curtis
    • Fear Ink
    • Khaled Abdul El-Fadl
    • Anti Muslim Bigotry
    • Deconstructing the Social Construct (disrupting binary)
    • Using humor
    • Media & Popular Culture
    • Analysis Opp.
    • Connecting through discussions of bias (K-12)
    • Questions at course on Islamophobia
    • Intersectionality
    • Course
    • Unit
    • Resources
    • Case Study
    • Deconstruct
    • Disrupt