It is a curious theological and historical fact that in Islam the primary enemy was never atheism or unbelief but…
Author: Mucahit Bilici
Mucahit Bilici is Associate Professor of Sociology at John Jay College and CUNY Graduate Center. He is the author of Finding Mecca in America: How Islam Is Becoming an American Religion (University of Chicago Press, 2012) and Hamal Kürt: Türk İslamı ve Kürt Sorunu [Kurd the Porter: Turkish Islam and the Kurdish Question] (Avesta, 2017). He writes on Kurds, Islam, and Muslims in America.
Mountains and Politics
The recent American betrayal of the Kurds in Northeast Syria brought back into circulation the mantra that has traditionally served…
Do Kurdish Lives Matter?
There were only three days to the New Year when Cihan Can, a 33-year-old civil engineer from my hometown, Diyarbakir,…