Book Conference: The Routledge Handbook of Islam and Race, 2025

Day 2 - Saturday, December 13, 2025
9:30 - 11:30 AM
Opening Remarks, Zain Abdullah, Editor (9:30 AM -9:35 AM)

9:35 AM - 11:30 AM
Panel 3: Islam & Race in Africa
Moderator: Samba Camara, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Praise F. Owojuyigbe - "Islam in Equatorial Guinea" (Adeyemi Federal University of Education at Ondo, South West Nigeria)
May T. Kosba - Islam and Race in Egypt (Rutgers University USA)
Tahir Sitoto - Unapologetically Black, Unapologetically Muslim (University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa)
Brahim El Guabli - Racial Transitions: Islam and Transitional Justice in Morocco (Williams College USA)
Caitlyn Bolton - Swahili Arabic: Imitation and the Semiotics of Race (Boston College USA)
Haroon Bashir - Virtues of the Ḥabasha: Exploring Blackness in Islamicate Texts (Markfield Institute of Higher Education UK)
Lunch Break (11:30 AM -1:00 PM)

1:00 - 2:30 PM
Panel 4: Islam & Race in the Caribbean & South America
Moderator: Bryan Rusch, Duke University

Ahmed Idrissi Alami - Racialization and Ethnicity among Muslims in Jamaica (Purdue University USA)
Luciana Garcia de Oliveira - Bismillah Brazil!: Islam, Race, and Hip-Hop (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil)
Ellen McLarney - Islam and Race in Argentina (Duke University USA)
Break (2:30 -3: pm)

3:00 - 4:45 PM
Panel 5: Islam & Race in North America
Moderator: Bryan Rusch, Duke University

Alaina Morgan - From Bahia to Black Lives Matter: Black Islam in the United States. (University of Southern California USA)
Ken Chitwood - Dreams of al-Andalus: Latinx Muslims Re-Imagining Race (Freie Universität - Berlin / University of Southern California USA)
Naved Bakali - Racializing Muslim Youth and the French-Canadian Imaginary (University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada)

4:30 - 4:45 PM
Closing Remarks: Mbaye Lo, Duke University, Director, DISC & DUMESC