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  Event: Wikipedia as Pedagogy: How faculty and students are shaping public scholarship in the field of religion Hosted by WikiEducation and the AAR Teaching & Learning Committee In this webinAAR, you will hear from three faculty who https://husseinrashid.com/2026/05/08/event-wikipedia-as-pedagogy-how-faculty-and-students-are-shaping-public-scholarship-in-the-field-of-religion.html/ #Events #Teaching #DigitalEducation #EngagedLearning #pedagogy #PublicScholarship #wiki #Wikipedia

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  Event: Wikipedia as Pedagogy: How faculty and students are shaping public scholarship in the field of religion Hosted by WikiEducation and the AAR Teaching & Learning Committee In this webinAAR, you will hear from three faculty who have incorporated Wikipedia editing into their pedagogy. During this roundtable session, faculty will discuss why they decided to adopt the Wikipedia assignment and how it has affected their teaching. We’ll explore what Wikipedia can offer… https://husseinra...

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  Co-Convening Conference on Ethics of Aga Khan IV With my dear friend Shenila Khoja-Moolji, I'm co-convening a conference on the ethical worldview of Shah Karim al-Husayni, Aga Khan IV. This conference seeks papers on the thought, guidance, and institutional legacy of His Highness Prince Karim Aga Khan IV(1936–2025). As the forty-ninth hereditary Imam of the Shia Imami Ismaili Muslims, Aga Khan IV shaped the religious, ethical, and institutional life of his followers. https://husseinras...

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  Co-Convening Conference on Ethics of Aga Khan IV With my dear friend Shenila Khoja-Moolji, I'm co-convening a conference on the ethical worldview of Shah Karim al-Husayni, Aga Khan IV. This conference seeks papers on the thought, guidance, and institutional legacy of His Highness Prince Karim Aga Khan IV(1936–2025). As the forty-ninth heredi https://husseinrashid.com/2026/05/09/co-convening-conference-on-ethics-of-aga-khan-iv.html/ #Events #Religion #Conference #Ismaili #Shiism

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  New at Religion Dispatches: Another Mass Shooting. More Dead Muslims. This is America.  The night before the 101st birthday of Malcolm X, the night before the 105th birthday of Yuri Kochiyama, as I go to a reading group at the Jewish Cultural Center of Harlem to discuss the song “Strange Fruit,” I get the news. Another mass shooting. More dead Muslims. Portrait Billie Holiday, Downbeat, New by libraryofcongress is licensed under CC-CC0 1.0 https://husseinrashid.com/2026/05/24/new-at-religion-d...

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  Video: WebinAAR Wikipedia as Pedagogy In this webinAAR, you will hear from three faculty who have incorporated Wikipedia editing into their pedagogy. During this roundtable session, faculty discuss why they decided to adopt the Wikipedia assignment and how it has affected their teaching. The panelists explore what Wikipedia can offer students and how students can help shape public understanding of religion by contributing to Wikipedia. They discuss how AI has reframed… https://husseinrashid.co...

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  Zocalo: Ramadan Invites Us to Imagine a Better Future I have a new piece on Zócalo about Ramadan as a futurist practice. Ramadan is a futurist practice. Ritual fasting and increased spiritual contemplation are ruptures in Muslims’ daily habits, not just in eating, but in our movement through the world. They force you to pay attention, with eyes misty with spirituality—to feel viscerally what is wrong with the world. Ramadan invites Muslims to imagine how we can remake… https://husseinrashid.co...

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  This is a great @99pi.org on #NYC 311 system. @zohrankmamdani you should give it a listen https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/99-invisible/id394775318?i=1000754566027

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  Video: Representing Religion in Museums The video from my WebinAAR, a webinar for the American Academy of Religion, has posted and is embedded below. https://husseinrashid.com/2026/03/31/video-representing-religion-in-museums.html/

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  Video: Representing Religion in Museums The video from my WebinAAR, a webinar for the American Academy of Religion, has posted and is embedded below. https://player.vimeo.com/video/1171118173?dnt=1&app_id=122963#embed https://husseinrashid.com/2026/03/31/video-representing-religion-in-museums.html/ #Events #Religion #Video #museums #ReligiousLiteracy

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  Media: WBUR on Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan Four previously unknown recordings of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, the Pakistani singer known as the ‘King of the Kings of Qawwali’ who died in 1997, have been rediscovered on a warehouse shelf in England. They’re released on a new album called “Chain of Light.” Michael Brook — the Canadian guitarist and composer who recorded the newly released tracks with Kahn back in 1990 — and Hussein Rashid, a scholar of Muslim and U.S. culture, join… https://husseinrashid.co...

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  Video: Relationships and Commitments: Land Beyond Ownership https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOkm1GL3y0c Part of the Learning Series, Seasons of Responsibility: Interreligious Conversations on Environmental Justice and Repair There are ways to exist in harmony with all of creation that cultivate the soul and a relationship with the Divine. Hussei https://husseinrashid.com/2026/04/01/video-relationships-and-commitments-land-beyond-ownership.html/ #Interfaith #Religion #Video

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  Video: Relationships and Commitments: Land Beyond Ownership Part of the Learning Series, Seasons of Responsibility: Interreligious Conversations on Environmental Justice and Repair There are ways to exist in harmony with all of creation that cultivate the soul and a relationship with the Divine. Hussein Rashid and Rabbi Gordon Tucker bring Muslim and Jewish texts into dialogue to explore how religious traditions resist transactional relationships with the earth and… https://husseinrashid.com/2...

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  Video: Multifaith Mondays: Moral Witness for Democracy (March 23, 2026) https://youtu.be/LPHrJRglnd4?t=403 I was honored to be able to offer a small reflection at this event. Since March 3, 2025, Multifaith Monday vigils have served as a sacred space for collective lament, prophetic resistance, and multifaith community-building in a tim https://husseinrashid.com/2026/04/02/video-multifaith-mondays-moral-witness-for-democracy-march-23-2026.html/ #Interfaith #Video #democracy

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  Video: Multifaith Mondays: Moral Witness for Democracy (March 23, 2026) I was honored to be able to offer a small reflection at this event. Since March 3, 2025, Multifaith Monday vigils have served as a sacred space for collective lament, prophetic resistance, and multifaith community-building in a time of deep division and threat to America’s democratic values. Every Monday, New Yorkers come together — rain or shine, hot or cold — to draw strength from each other, and… https://husseinrashid.c...

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  I found @kellyjbaker.bsky.social in Bluesky and that makes me happy. Follow her.

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  APRIL Colloquium Fellow 2026 I'm pleased that I've been selected as 2026 Fellow for the Association for Public Religion and Intellectual Life (APRIL) Colloquium on “Representing Religion in Museums.” The colloquium will provide a forum of like-minded cultural workers to discuss just how museums address religion and treat religious objects. https://husseinrashid.com/2026/05/03/april-colloquium-fellow-2026.html/ #Networks #Resume #museums #ReligiousLiteracy #sensory #technnolo...

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  APRIL Colloquium Fellow 2026 I'm pleased that I've been selected as 2026 Fellow for the Association for Public Religion and Intellectual Life (APRIL) Colloquium on “Representing Religion in Museums.” The colloquium will provide a forum of like-minded cultural workers to discuss just how museums address religion and treat religious objects. We will take stock of developments in the field and chart a course for future research and interpretation. https://husseinrashid.com/2026/05...