Nader Hashemi
Nader Hashemi is the director of the Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding and an associate professor of Middle East and Islamic Politics at Georgetown University. He is the author of “Islam, Secularism and Liberal Democracy: Toward a Democratic Theory for Muslim Societies” (2009) and co-editor (with Danny Postel) of “Sectarianization: Mapping the New Politics of the Middle East” (2017). He is currently writing a book on the global destabilizing effects of Middle East authoritarianism.
Latest from Nader Hashemi
Teaching Gandhi in a Texas Detention Center
Badar Khan Suri, a postdoctoral fellow at Georgetown University, was arrested by masked federal agents and is now in an ICE detention facility in Texas, where he provides short tutorials on Gandhi for his fellow prisoners. A Georgetown colleague reflects on a recent visit with him.
Anwar Ibrahim and the Labyrinth of Post-Islamism
In these dark days of Muslim history — awash with torture states, corrupt ruling elites and repressed civil societies — the election of a democratic dissident who is both a devout Muslim and a global thinker has the potential to embolden other democratic forces in Muslim societies.