Despite the need for housing, UC Santa Cruz is building more asphalt & parking than housing on its beautiful East Meadow. My letter published in Santa Cruz Sentinel today.

This is a big moment of celebration for the Somali people and for the Templeton Prize. Congratulations to Edna Adan! This prize shows how people use their faith to do good in the world.

This essay from Hala Y Alkarib in The New Humanitarian moved me to tears. “Sudan is our home,” writes Al Karib, “and we are committed to staying.” #HERO SIHA Network Women in Islam thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/first-…

So much I like about this book! Egor Lazarev argues that states use legal pluralism & people use state law “even when it is foreign to them." Also, state transformation “can be brought from the bottom-up by … women.” Chapter 2 on methods & positionality is🔥. Cambridge University Press - Politics

UNDUE PROCESS by Fiona Shen Bayh has earned *3* big awards: APSA-IPSA Theodore J. Lowri First Book Award, Giovanni Sartori Book Award for qualitative methods, and Juan Linz Award for the Study of Democracy & Autocracy. cambridge.org/9781009197144

Read this book if you care about how constitutional values & rights become social reality. Fabulous to see this out in the world, @w_k_taylor Cambridge University Press - Law

My essay, "The rule of law never dies," introduces a six-week forum on the entanglements of law, religion, and state building. Organized and hosted by The Immanent Frame. tif.ssrc.org/2023/09/19/the…

In the The Immanent Frame forum on religion, law and state building, Jason Klocek shows how colonial structures still shape international relations & how foreign policy doesn't grasp the ways that religion intersects with people's multidimensional identities. tif.ssrc.org/2023/10/04/col…

The world's attention is elsewhere now, for very good reasons. But please do not forget Sudan, where untold horrors have taken place & little remains of Khartoum, the country's beautiful capital city on the Nile. economist.com/middle-east-an…

Thank you to Humboldt University @BerlinLSI for hosting me this week. I enjoyed our discussion together about religion and the rule of law.

Settling into life in Berlin for a writers residency at the The American Academy in Berlin. I'm working on a book with Kathleen Moore on sharia, ethics, and law in the United States. 🏡📖🌄

This Wednesday at 13:15, I will be giving the Reza Banakar Memorial Lecture in Sweden, online and in-person Lund University. Details here. lu.se/evenemang/reza…

Multiple UN reports cite to a "perfect storm" of tens of thousands killed, widespread gender-based violence, war crimes, malnutrition, a lack of humanitarian aid -- and more displaced children than any place on earth. This is Sudan nearing 1 year of war. news.un.org/en/story/2024/…

OUT OF PLACE is a new book that encourages scholars to reflect on the power of positionality in research. It's a structured process of introspection & inquiry. The book came out today. It's available as Open Access at cambridge.org/outofplace. cambridge.org/core/books/out…

I share this book award with many people, starting with my mother, who helped me understand the power of religion in building the rule of law -- and building peace -- something the world could use more of right now.

It's the "worst displacement crisis” (IRC - International Rescue Committee) and “one of the worst humanitarian disasters” (UN Humanitarian). Thank you Nesrine Malik for writing about Sudan, sadness, hope, and 1 year of war. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

I spoke to a packed house in Berlin on the topic of "Islam and Politics in America Today." Thanks to the The American Academy in Berlin for creating space for this scholarship. Watch here: buff.ly/3QkS3W9

Vibhuti Ramachandran's **Immoral Traffic** won a book award--before publication! The book is an ethnography of NGOs & India's anti-prostitution law. It's out in a few months in the Cambridge University Press - Law Cambridge Studies in Law and Society book series. cambridge.org/lawandsociety

Putting diplomatic pressure on China & the UAE will help resolve Sudan's forgotten civil war that has displaced 11 million people. My article out today in lnternationale Politik Quarterly.

What sparked Sudan's civil war, and is there a path to peace? My interview with CNA Singapore CNA channelnewsasia.com/listen/daily-c…