Join us for the first day of the Islamophobia Conference 2023, with Professor Saeed Khan and Professor Joseph Massad, for a discussion on Islam and liberalism. 

This event is fully booked. To join the waiting list, please email events@ihrc.org with your full name and number of tickets you require. Thank you and apologies for any inconvenience. 

WHEN: Friday, 8 December, 2023, 18:30 – 20:00 GMT
WHERE: IHRC Bookshop (202 Preston Road, London, HA9 8PA)

About the speaker:

Joseph Massad is professor of modern Arab politics and intellectual history at Columbia University in New York. He writes on theories of identity and culture – including theories of nationalism, sexuality, race and religion. He is the author of Desiring Arabs (2007), which was awarded the Lionel Trilling Book Award; The Persistence of the Palestinian Question: Essays on Zionism and the Palestinian Question (2006); and Colonial Effects: The Making of National Identity in Jordan (2001). His latest book is Islam in Liberalism, University of Chicago Press, 2015.

About the chair: 

Saeed A. Khan is is Senior Lecturer Near East & Asian and Global Studies at Wayne State University, as well as Research Fellow at its Center for the Study of Citizenship and Honorary Fellow at Australian Catholic University. He is also Cofounder and Senior Fellow at the Institute for Social Policy & Understanding. He is a regular panelist on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s Turning Point, as well as a regular contributor to news outlets like the BBC, Veja, Quartz and Time Magazine.