2008-09 News

● The Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies offers congratulations to Robert Crews, Assistant Professor of  History, who is named one of the 2009 Carnegie Scholar for his project entitled "Muslims without Borders: Empires, States and Transborder Communities from the Caucasus to the Hindu Kush”. The project seeks to understand how the mobility and interconnectedness of Muslims have intersected with the politics of empires, states, nations, and locales since the early 18th century. His research challenges predominant American frameworks for understanding Muslim identities of an undifferentiated “Muslim world” on one hand, and the nation-state on the other hand.
-- For the announcement on Carnegie Corporation's website, click here
-- For the announcement in the NY Times, click here
-- For an article in the Stanford Daily, click here

● Congratulations to 2009 Abbasi Program Student Grant Recipients! more

● Videos of the following 2008-09 Events are available through Stanford ITunes. Please click on the event title to view the video.

February 09, 2009: "Ending Chaos in Afghanistan and Pakistan: A New Direction in U.S. Foreign Policy"
- Ahmed Rashid (Journalist)

April 15, 2009: " Forum on Charting Change, Challenging Power: Women Leaders in Muslim Contexts"
-Baroness Kishwer Falkner (The Liberal Democratic Peer in House of Lords, Great Britain)
-Dr. Shahida Jaffrey (Founder and Vice Chancellor of Sardar Bahadur Khan Women's University, Quetta, Pakistan)
-Prof. Julia Clancy-Smith (Department of History, University of Arizona),

May 13, 2009: "What Do A Billion Muslims Really Think?: The Making of and Findings from the Gallup Poll"
- John Esposito (University Professor, Georgetown University)
-Michael Wolfe (President of Unity Productions Foundation)