Charles Tieszen

YouTube video by Middle East Eye Why Pope Francis left such an impact on the Muslim World | Jordan Denari Duffner | The Big Picture

Thanks to @MiddleEastEye for having me on their podcast, The Big Picture, to talk about Pope Francis and Islam. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLPO...

They called the targeting of brown people of another faith and erosion of civil liberties the “patriot” act so you would feel guilty or fearful for being against it. So you would adopt an us versus them mindset. You were being groomed for autocratic rule all along.

I have a review of David Freidenreich's wonderful book, _Jewish Muslims_ in the latest issue of _Antisemitism Studies_: muse.jhu.edu/issue/54552

This is what the Israelis and their apologists call a targeted, anti-terror campaign.

This is Rafah today.

The idea that race is a social & historical construct has a long history. It was a central plank of the post WWII US consensus for obvious reasons given what pseudo-scientific racism had wrought. One of the central planks of the US right in the post WWII era was that race is a biologically reality.

I’m not judging individual scholars for leaving the US for theoretically safer universities.

I’m judging the rest of you for not noticing or caring that roughly 75% of your adjunctified colleagues have neither the putative protection of academic freedom nor the means to leave.

Letter from a Palestinian Political Prisoner in Louisiana March 18, 2025

“I have always believed that it is my duty not only to liberate myself from my oppressor but to liberate my oppressor from their hatred and fear.” — Mahmoud Khalil from ICE Detention in Jena, Louisiana. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

As a Jewish faculty member at one of these institutions, I am saying right now, in the clearest tones possible: not in my name. This violent exploitation of Jews as an alibi for achieving Fascist ends is itself textbook antisemitism.

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Fiona Griffiths' book on the priests who served female monastic communities is now open access online:
doi.org/10.58117/M4H...

Front cover of book: _A medieval case for Islam’s Superiority_

Back cover of book with endorsements

Ayman Ibrahim and Clint Hackenburg have a new edition/translation of Ibn Layth’s 8th-century letter. I was able to read an early version of their book and even endorse it. Well done, gentlemen!

Ta-Nehisi Coates: If Democrats can’t draw the Line at Genocide, they can’t Draw the Line at Democracy Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Ta-Nehisi Coates and Angela Davis spoke at the University of Michigan’s Rackham Auditorium on February 19, 2025, interviewed by my colleague Angela Dillard, the vice provost for undergraduate education. The event was…

Ta-Nehisi Coates: If Democrats can’t draw the Line at Genocide, they can’t Draw the Line at Democracy

A lesson from my spouse, whose work (b4 leaving academics) focused on contemporary Islamic movements: follow the in/justice. Stevenson notes early on that Ahmed Yassin, Hamas' founder, 'ran a civic religious organisation to provide social services the Israeli occupation neglected or destroyed'.

Tom Stevenson · Illusions of Containment: Versions of Hamas Hamas had been able to take power in Gaza because Israel had failed to circumscribe Palestinian politics within the Oslo...

A pretty fair review essay, aptly titled: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Israel Just Killed a Pregnant Palestinian Woman – And Western Media Doesn’t Care How many Palestinian women and children have to be killed in the occupied West Bank before anyone in the US or UK gives a damn?

"Israel Just Killed a Pregnant Palestinian Woman – And Western Media Doesn’t Care"

My latest piece for Zeteo on the ongoing, brazen and shameful double standards in our media coverage of death and suffering in the Middle East.

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Very excited that my article on the history of Orthodox Christian-Muslim relations has now been published in Religion Compass; it summarizes my approach to this history and illustrates what I think are its most poignant and profound dimensions.

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Friends in Cleveland and at John Carroll University: I’ll be in town on Thursday for this event!

This is a genocidal war crime endorsed by the president of the United States

New in issue 44, @charlestieszen.bsky.social reviews A Christian-Muslim Comparative Theology of Saints, by H. Harmakaputra. Check it out: irstudies.org/index.php/ji...

Photo of book, Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History. Volume 22, Central Europe (1800-1914)

My print copy of our 22nd volume just arrived.

Fascinating, tragic read👇

Trump's Mass Anti-Immigrant Raids to Begin Here are action items to protect your immigrant neighbors, answers to common FAQs, and insights to debunk anti-immigrant propaganda

NYT reporting mass immigrant ICE raids have begun in Chicago.

I'm an immigrant & Chicago based human rights lawyer. I wrote this on how to handle ICE, actions to protect our immigrant neighbors, & debunking anti-immigrant hate.

No paywall. Please share widely. www.qasimrashid.com/p/trumps-mas...

About - Flâneur with a fist A newsletter from Charles Tieszen featuring reflections on dialogue, interfaith relations, and more. Click to read Flâneur with a fist, by Charles Tieszen, a Substack publication. Launched a year ago.

I write an occasional newsletter called 'Flâneur with a fist', which you can read about and, if you wish, subscribe to here: charlestieszen.substack.com/about

Holiness doesn't have a surname In graduate school I wrote a doctoral thesis about a collection of medieval texts originally written in southern Spain.

Durmaz' book provoked a number of personal responses, which I did not include in my review. I did, however, reflect on these in a piece I called 'Holiness doesn't have a surname', which appeared in my Substack newsletter: charlestieszen.substack.com/p/holiness-d...

Stories between Christianity and Islam: Saints, Memory, and Cultural Exchange in Late Antiquity and Beyond Published in Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations (Vol. 35, No. 3, 2024)

I reviewed Reyan Durmaz' new book, _Stories between Christianity and Islam_ for the latest issue of _Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations_. There are a few free versions of that review here, which will later appear behind a paywall: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/6PADP...

I recently reviewed Hans Harmakaputra's book, _A Christian-Muslim Comparative Theology of Saints_. That review appears in the latest issue of _Interreligious Studies_, which you can read here: irstudies.org/index.php/ji...

Cover of Irvin Weathersby Jr’s new book, In Open Contempt: Confronting White Supremacy in Art and Public Space.

Now THAT’S a book cover. 🤌🏼

Excellent content so far, too.

It covers material from Central and Eastern Europe (1800-1914). Originally, material from Russia was meant to be in the same volume. But relevant texts/authors were in such abundance that we had to split the volume in 2. CMR23, focusing on Russia, should appear in the spring of 2025.

Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History Volume 22. Central Europe (1800-1914) "Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History Volume 22. Central Europe (1800-1914)" published on 18 Dec 2024 by Brill.

Our 22nd volume is now available in print, hardback, and withing the online database: brill.com/display/titl...

Byzantine Syriac (Thirteen) - Worlds of Byzantium Worlds of Byzantium - October 2024

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Image of X post by C. Sahner about a new article in which J. Tannous discusses the use of Syriac in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.

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