The State of US-Islamic World Relations

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Globalization, Culture and Music

Listen/watch the three music links. The first is a London based Indian singer who combines old Indian movie songs with an MTV approach to life, the second is a French Arab Hip Hop artist, who dreams of kicking the shit out of the welfare man, and the third is a London based Egyptian Muslim singing a song in English, Turkish, Urdu and Arabic. What do these sound tracks say about our globalizing world?

Religion and Global Order

Religion is playing an important role in global politics today.

Religion and America:

1. Religion and U.S. Grant Strategy

2. The Rise of Political Christianity

Religious Resurgence

1. Religion on the Modern World Stage

2. Globalization of Wahabism

Islam and the West

Soft Voice, Strong Message: Students, world leaders seek UD professor's thought-provoking views on Muslim politics, religious extremism

Muslim Life in America Review the entire website before you post your comments.

Islam in Texas: Watch this Video

Islam in Europe

Dealing with Global Inequity

We will follow the same format as previously. Group I is a taskforce appointed by the World Economic Forum and Group II is a taskforce appointed by World Social Forum to address one of the most important consequences of Globalization -- the growing gap between the rich and the poor. Group I will assess if there is indeed a growing problem on inequity and develop a plan to address the gap without slowing the progress of economic globalization and international trade. Group II will explore the darkside of globalization and determine if globalization needs to be fought, challenged in order to fight global inequity. both groups should identify the core causes for the problem, come up with the objectives for their plan, the strategy to achieve it and the plan on how to get resources to achieve their goals.


Tom Lewis on inequity.
L. Strope on inequity.
On the global level.
Income inequality.
See power point presentation on the topic.

Defining Globalization

Globalization is one of the most studied issues of our time. As a result, many discipline-specific modes of understanding globalization have emerged. But how can one grasp globalization beyond individual disciplines? To read and comment more click here: What do you think of the 3 Ps of Globalization? Also read Teaching Globalization in Era of Terrorism.

Muqtedar Khan with Benazir Bhutto a two time PM of Pakistan

Dear students, I am in a lounge at London airport on my way back from Doha, Qatar where I was participating in the US-Islamic World Forum. Here I have had the opportunity to meet with many world leaders and I will share some of my conversations when I get back. In the picture you see Benazir Bhutto [the one who is not me] the first Muslim woman to be elected leader of a Muslim country.

In the picture you see Benazir Bhutto [the one who is not me] the first Muslim woman to be elected leader of a Muslim country. Benazir, BTW, was educated at both Harvard and Oxford.