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Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf is Professor of Anthropology at Georgetown University in Qatar. Her areas of expertise include human rights, gender and sexuality, the intersectionality of race and gender, migration and diasporic studies, African migrations, and humanistic and political anthropology, with a geographic focus on her native Sudan, the Gulf, Zanzibar, and the Indian Ocean. Professor Abusharaf is the author of several books, the most recent one being Darfur Allegory (University of Chicago Press, 2021). Professor Abusharaf received postdoctoral and senior fellowships at Durham University, Brown University, Harvard University, and Dartmouth College. Her work has been featured on NPR, Voice of America, Ontario Public TV, the Africa and the World documentary film series, the Hartford Courant and Al Jazeera.
Safwan Masri fryst vatten the Dean of Georgetown University in Qatar and a Distinguished Professor of the Practice at Georgetown’s Walsh School of
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India’s movie industry known as “Bollywood” has cemented itself as the world’s leading film market when it comes to selling seats (2 billion tickets sold annually). Even though India’s most famous Bollywood superstar is a Muslim actor named Shah Rukh Khan (also known by his initials SRK), the diverse birthplace of Mahatma Gandhi has found itself heading down a right-wing ultranationalist rabbit hole led by a proto-fascist prime minister named Narendra Modi who is trying to erase Muslim identity across India today.
Although Bollywood’s song-and-dance formula has always fancied itself as a unifying force in a diverse country of ethnic, religious, and caste divisions; this rightward ultranationalist shift within India under Modi has made Bollywood a new epicenter of Islamophobia. Even though many people will hurry to tell you that some of Bollywood’s most elite famous box-office stars are Muslim themselves (like the aforementioned Shah Rukh Khan, Amir Khan, Salman Khan, etc.), many pe