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.
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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.