{"id":1100,"date":"2021-09-09T14:58:14","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T18:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/islamic\/?p=1100"},"modified":"2021-09-09T14:58:16","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T18:58:16","slug":"homayra-ziad-in-the-baltimore-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/islamic\/2021\/09\/09\/homayra-ziad-in-the-baltimore-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"Homayra Ziad in the Baltimore Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A profile and interview with Program Director Homayra Ziad appears in the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/maryland\/bs-prem-md-muslims-since-911-20210909-sxuglgm2vredbfv36dhktufsqy-story.html\"> Baltimore Sun<\/a> in anticipation of the twentieth anniversary of 9\/11. In the article, Dr.Ziad answers questions about the military relationship between the United States and several Muslim-majority countries, and the effect that this has on Muslim Americans. The following is a snippet from the article:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Ask Homayra Ziad about 9\/11\u2032s impact, and prepare for a multilayered lecture \u2014 fitting for the director of the Program in Islamic Studies at Johns Hopkins.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>To Ziad, 44, a Muslim American born in Pakistan, the first step toward healing is to establish a sense of what Islam is and isn\u2019t.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cDespite the fact that we have a historically diverse community,\u201d she says, powerful forces on the post-9\/11 landscape are incentivized to promote stereotypes of Muslims as \u201cforeign,\u201d \u201cviolent\u201d and \u201cpeople who hate the U.S.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Ziad cites the military-industrial complex as one that exploits such portrayals to build support for wars like the 20-year Afghanistan conflict. The result, in her view: thousands of battlefield deaths and countless ruined lives, but also acceptance of civil rights violations ranging from the surveillance of mosques to inappropriate deportation and torture.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>That, she says, makes accurate teaching of Islam \u201ca matter of life and death.\u201d As part of a course she\u2019s teaching on 9\/11\u2032s effects, she\u2019s teaming with a community-based nonprofit, the Justice for Muslims Collective, to illustrate how such concessions promote Islamophobia.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The growing number of people committed to such work makes Ziad largely optimistic. \u201cI have a lot of hope,\u201d she says.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A profile and interview with Program Director Homayra Ziad appears in the Baltimore Sun in anticipation of the twentieth anniversary of 9\/11. In the article, Dr.Ziad answers questions about the military relationship between the United States and several Muslim-majority countries, and the effect that this has on Muslim Americans. The following is a snippet from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/islamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/islamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/islamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/islamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/islamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/islamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1101,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/islamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100\/revisions\/1101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/islamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/islamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/islamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}