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Professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Texas at Austin.

Joined November 2018
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The idea that everyone is "paid what they're worth" has proven to be a cruelly effective way to put the blame on workers for not getting ahead — while giving the rich and powerful cover to rig the game for their own benefit. Don't buy it.
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This is a good time to also share with you all my other son Haroon’s album, released last year! music.apple.com/us/album/ove…
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(Actually, year before last — 2021)
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Finally starting in on Mornings in Jenin by Susan Abulhawa!
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Definitely worth the read. Might start assigning it in my Gateway to the Middle East course.
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Enjoying another semester of discussion on authoritarianism/democracy in my zoom reading group, Sustaining Democracy, here at UT! This semester: Richard Hofstadter and Anne Applebaum. Most Wednesdays, 4 pm CST. If you’d like to join, contact me.
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Rereading @LailaLalami ‘s Moor’s Account. So many fascinating themes, among which, moral choice. Not only the question of *which* choices one makes, but of *when* a choice is made — the very duration of decision-making. /1
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We often think of choices as things that are discrete, bounded in a moment of time, when in fact, they are amorphous things, often beginning before we realize it and having multiple and overlapping endpoints. /2
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2/ The new reporting is part of our special report looking at the unprecedented number of former senior administration officials who say the president is unfit for office. THE INSIDERS airs at 9 pm Sunday night on CNN.
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Next up for the UT Isl Stds book club: Malcolm X’s Autobiography.
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We are just finishing SA Chakraborty’s “City of Brass” for our semesterly Isl Stds book club here at UT. We’ve had a blast with it!
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Been reading lots of Muslim-authored literature this summer, both fiction and autobiography. So enjoyable! Almost completed Alif the Unseen by @GWillowWilson, completed A Woman Is No Man by @EtafRum, and completed Exit West by Mohsin Hamid.
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His critique of American Christianity’s indelible link with whiteness is searing and prescient, seen through the lens of the Obama-Trump moment of our nation’s history.