Cyra Akila Choudhury - Islamophobia and the Law

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DOI: 10.1017/9781108380768

First published 2020

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Choudhury, Cyra Akila, 1971 editor. | Beydoun, Khaled A., 1978 editor.

Title: Islamophobia and the law / edited by Cyra Akila Choudhury, Florida International University; Khaled A. Beydoun, University of Arkansas School of Law.

Description: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA Cambridge University Press, 2020. | Includes index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2019040747 (print) | LCCN 2019040748 (ebook) | ISBN 9781108422123 (hardback) | ISBN 9781108433716 (paperback) | ISBN 9781108380768 (epub)

Subjects: LCSH: MuslimsLegal status, laws, etc.United States. | IslamophobiaUnited States.

Classification: LCC KF4869.M86 I825 2020 (print) | LCC KF4869.M86 (ebook) | DDC 342.7308/5297dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019040747

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019040748

ISBN 978-1-108-42212-3 Hardback

ISBN 978-1-108-43371-6 Paperback

Leti Volpp

Susan Akram and Kevin Johnson

Karen Engle

Muneer I. Ahmad

Shirin Sinnar

Khaled A. Beydoun

Faisal Kutty

Abed A. Ayoub

Amna A. Akbar

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Cyra Akila Choudhury

Karen Ellis Rhone

Aziza Ahmed

Sahar F. Aziz

Muneer Ahmad is Clinical Professor of Law at Yale Law School, where he co-teaches in the Transnational Development Clinic and the Worker and Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic (WIRAC). He received his AB from Harvard University (1993) and his JD from Harvard Law School (1996). His scholarship examines the intersections of immigration, race, and citizenship in both legal theory and legal practice.

Aziza Ahmed is Professor of Law at Northeastern University School of Law. She is an internationally renowned expert in health law, criminal law, and human rights. Her scholarship examines the legal, regulatory, and political environments regarding health in US domestic law, US foreign policy, and international law. She teaches property law, reproductive and sexual health and rights, and international health law: governance, development, and rights. Professor Ahmed was selected as a fellow with the program in Law and Public Affairs (LAPA) at Princeton University for 20172018. She combined a sabbatical and her fellowship, spending the academic year developing her work on law, feminism, and science into a book with particular emphasis on how womens health advocates shaped the AIDS response. She has also written extensively about abortion and reproductive health. Professor Ahmeds scholarship has appeared in the University of Miami Law Review, the American Journal of Law and Medicine, the University of Denver Law Review, the Harvard Journal of Law and Gender, the Boston University Law Review (online) and the American Journal of International Law (online), among other journals.

Amna A. Akbar is Associate Professor of Law at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law. Her research and teaching focus on social movements, race, and policing. She received her BA from Barnard College, Columbia University, and her JD from the University of Michigan.

Susan Akram directs Boston University School of Laws International Human Rights Clinic, in which she supervises students engaged in international advocacy in domestic, international, regional, and UN fora. She earned her BA with honors from the University of MichiganAnn Arbor, a JD from Georgetown University, and a Diplome in International Human Rights from the Institut International des Droits de lHomme. Her research and publications focus on immigration, asylum, refugees, forced migration, and human and civil rights issues, with an interest in the Middle East and the Arab and Muslim world. Since September 11, 2001, she has presented widely on the USA PATRIOT Act and on immigration-related laws and policies, as well as on her work challenging standard interpretations of womens asylum claims from the Arab/Muslim world.

Abed A. Ayoub serves as the national legal and policy director of the AmericanArab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), the countrys largest Arab American civil rights organization. Throughout his career Ayoub has worked to address issues impacting Arabs and Muslims in the United States, including matters related to discrimination, immigration, hate crimes, surveillance, and profiling. Ayoub works to enhance the communitys economic empowerment and access to education. Under his leadership, the ADC legal department has successfully assisted and provided support to thousands of impacted community members. He regularly advocates on behalf of the community with lawmakers and government agencies. Ayoub is a native of Detroit, Michigan.