Qur’an of the Oppressed

A three-day series hosted by the Anthropology and Social Change Department between February 3-5 2025.

Join Anthropology and Social Change for another edition of their Visiting Scholar Series. This three-part series will be live-streamed for online viewers on the department's YouTube channel. Registration is available at the links below.

• Lecture 1: 1492 & the Cosmic War Between Selfish Earth Eaters and the Worlds of the Below
  • Date/Time: February 3, 6pm-7:30pm
  • Location: Namaste Hall, CIIS
• Lecture 2: Dreaming Dangerously Beyond Nation-States: Anarcha-Islam, Decolonization, and the Land 
  • Date/Time: February 4, 6pm-7:30pm
  • Location: 1st Floor Lobby, CIIS
• Lecture 3: An Ethics of Disagreement & Politics of Hospitality: A Queer-Feminist Islam Where All Worlds Fit
  • Date/Time: February 5, 6pm-7:30pm
  • Location: 1st Floor Lobby, CIIS

Guest Speaker

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Mohamed Abdou is a North African-Egyptian Muslim anarchist interdisciplinary activist-scholar of Indigenous, Black, critical race, and Islamic studies, as well as gender, sexuality, abolition, and decolonization with extensive fieldwork experience in the Middle East-North Africa, Asia, and Turtle Island. This year, he is the Arcapita Visiting Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African studies (MESAAS) at Columbia University. He is a former Assistant Professor of Sociology at the American University of Cairo and recently completed his postdoctoral fellowship at Cornell University. He has also taught at the University of Toronto & Queen’s University. His research stems from his involvement with the anti-globalization post-Seattle 1999 movements, organizing for Palestinian liberation, the Tyendinaga Mohawks and the sister territories of Kahnawake, Akwesasne, and Kanehsatake, during the standoff over the Culbertson tract, as well as the anti-war protests of Iraq and Afghanistan, the Indigenous Zapatista movement in Chiapas, and the 2011 Egyptian uprisings. He is author of Islam & Anarchism: Relationships & Resonances (Pluto Press, 2022). He wrote his transnational ethnographic and historical-archival Ph.D. dissertation on Islam & Queer-Muslims: Identity & Sexuality in the Contemporary (2019). Visit his website at https://www.mabdou.net/.

Related Academic Programs

M.A. and Ph.D. in Anthropology and Social Change