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EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Asma T. Uddin Washington, D.C.
Asma T. Uddin is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of altmuslimah.com. She is also a Legal Fellow with the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding (ISPU) and an international law attorney with The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, a non-profit, non-partisan, public interest law firm based in Washington, D.C. Prior to joining The Becket Fund, she practiced commercial litigation at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius in Philadelphia and corporate real estate at Greenberg Traurig in Miami. Her editing experience includes, among other things, Dr. Umar F. Abd-Allah's A Muslim in Victorian America, which was published in 2007 by Oxford University Press. As Associate Editor and legal columnist for Islamica Magazine, Asma focused her writings on how American Muslims can rethink their social position within the American legal framework. Asma's writing has appeared in Muslim Girl Magazine, altmuslim, beliefnet, and in the Guardian's Comment is Free. She is also an expert panelist for the Washington Post religion blog, On Faith, and a contributor to Huffington Post Religion, CNN.com, and Common Ground News. Her more scholarly work has been published by Cambridge University Press and in the Rutgers Journal of Law and Religion, The Review of Faith & International Affairs, St. Thomas University Law Journal, and the First Amendment Law Review. Asma speaks widely on constitutional issues in legal academia. She has also traveled throughout Europe and the Muslim world to meet with Muslim and other minority groups as well as politicians, journalists, and anti-discrimination organizations. She is a 2005 graduate of The University of Chicago Law School, where she was an editor of The University of Chicago Law Review. A full list of Asma's speaking engagements on behalf of Altmuslimah can be found here. Contact: asma.uddin@altmuslimah.com |
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 | | Hook-up culture No sex on campus? By Asma Uddin and Ashley McGuire, October 24, 2011 Another school year is in full swing. Frat houses around the country are once again swollen with partygoers and intoxicated youth. Sunday mornings once again mark the regret of thousands of young women who hooked-up the night prior and either cannot remember what they did, or do remember and are trying to forget. Another hook-up season is in full swing. ( No comments) |
 | | muslim 9/11 reflections The complexity of Muslim identity, 10 years after 9/11 By Asma Uddin, September 13, 2011 With the tenth anniversary of 9/11, Muslims and non-Muslims alike are reflecting on what we, as Americans, have achieved since that fateful day -- and all that is still left for us to do. For Muslims, this conversation is happening at multiple levels, as we struggle to make sense of not just the socio-political issues facing our faith community, but also the deeply personal, spiritual questions 9/11 has posed for us as individuals. ( No comments) |
 | | Book: "Marry Him" Another look at an important book By Asma Uddin, January 3, 2011 One of the many issues Altmuslimah covers is the Muslim marriage crisis—not just the difficulty many Muslim women encounter when trying to find suitable matches but also the rising divorce rate in the Muslim American community. Altmuslimah has featured several commentaries on these and related topics. In her article, When I Think About Marrying, Zeba Iqbal explored the sheer irony of being told throughout her life that one’s level of education and professional success defines success, only to later be labeled a failure because she hadn’t also been able to secure a husband. ( No comments) |
 | | Outreach Help us help you By The Altmuslimah editorial team, May 28, 2010 Altmuslimah.com has been featured at the United Nations, on National Public Radio and at universities across the United States. Your financial contribution supports our volunteer effort to bring forth gender equality by enabling our editors to represent Altmuslimah at key speaking engagements and scale up our efforts through key partnerships. It also helps ensure that you will continue to receive compelling commentary and expert analysis of critical issues with advanced and easy-to-use technological upgrades. ( No comments) |
 | | Author Elif Shafak “Even the worldliest love has a spiritual side” By Asma T. Uddin, May 5, 2010 In her poetic new novel, Elif Shafak explores two parallel journeys toward Love – one set in modern times and another in the thirteenth century, between Sufi masters Rumi and Shams of Tabriz. The intersection between these two narratives reveals important lessons about self, selflessness, and Divine submission. Altmuslimah’s Asma Uddin spoke with the author about the deeper messages behind her lyrical prose. ( 6 comments) |
 | | Diplomacy Muslim women leading the way: An interview with Farah Pandith By Asma T. Uddin and Sarah Jawaid, April 21, 2010 “One of the things that troubles me greatly, not just for women but for youth as well, is that they don’t have the kind of alternative narratives available to them online that offer them that a diversity of thought on particular issues. I’m not talking about the typical conversations... but to talk about the choices you make and why you make them and how you live them. It seems from the questions you’re asking that Altmuslimah is concerned with how Muslim women can lead.” ( No comments) |
 | | Diplomacy Creating opportunities for Muslim engagement: An interview with Farah Pandith By Asma T. Uddin and Sarah Jawaid, April 19, 2010 It’s almost been a year since Farah Pandith was appointed Special Representative to Muslim Communities by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. The office, housed in the US State Department plays an important role in creating opportunities for people across varying opinions to engage in crucial dialogue. We sat down with Pandith to discuss the role she sees her office playing in connecting the Muslim community with each other and a broader audience, both aboard as well as in the US. ( 4 comments) |
 | | activism Domestic violence in the Muslim community By Asma T. Uddin, December 12, 2009 On December 13, 2009 at 1:00PM EST, a virtual meeting about domestic violence, featuring several gender rights activists, will occur right here on Altmuslimah. Join us for this important event - the instigator for what Altmuslimah and partners hope will be fresh perspectives, solution-oriented discussion, and an active campaign against domestic violence in the Muslim community. ( 5 comments) |
 | | Author Carolyn Baugh “Fiction based on a landscape of reality” By Asma T. Uddin and Sarah Rashid, October 21, 2009 Carolyn Baugh, a native of Indiana who is in her fourth year of the Ph.D. program in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Pennsylvania, writes in her new book The View from Garden City (Macmillan) about an unnamed American woman studying at the American University in Cairo who engages with several of Cairo's women, learning more about their heartbreaking, fascinating and inspiring stories. ( No comments) |
 | | Book "Sisters in War" Love, family, and survival in the new Iraq By Asma T. Uddin and Rahilla Zafar, October 2, 2009 Journalist Christina Asquith's new book Sisters in War: A Story of Love, Family, and Survival in the New Iraq tells the story of four women, their internal growth and external accomplishments, all of which give the reader a balanced, multifaceted look into the realities of post-war Iraq, including the failures, incompetency, oversights, and hubris involved but also the small successes and the opening of new opportunities. ( 1 comment) |
 | | Gender The focal point of cross-cultural dialogue By Asma T. Uddin, September 25, 2009 In the years since 9/11, Muslim men and women have responded to nativist hate mongering by working within the American legal framework. Muslim women have made the hijab a civil rights issue; similarly, the fight for the human rights of detainees has been going strong for some time. An additional response – one that is more nuanced to the gendered aspects of the problem – is to use gender and Muslim notions of femininity and masculinity as the focal point of cross-cultural dialogue. ( 11 comments) |
 | | Stereotypes Mad magazine: Marie Claire’s bias against Muslim women By Asma T. Uddin, September 7, 2009 There are multiple levels of victimization expressed in Marie Claire’s coverage of Muslim women, ranging from self-victimization (Islam as the answer for desperate, lost souls and only those souls), to falling prey to female weaknesses (Islam as attractive to only stupid, career-barren women), to being the inevitable victim of the ominous Islam of one’s family, society, and government. All of this adds up to Marie Claire’s distorted view of Muslim women. ( 14 comments) |
 | | Book "Honour Killing: Stories of Men Who Killed" A disturbing look into a killer’s psyche By Asma T. Uddin, June 24, 2009 As Ayse Onal's intensely disturbing book Honour Killing: Stories of Men Who Killed shows, honor killings are not merely a feminist issue. They reflect a larger problem with human social values, where men and women collude to defend a family’s honor. And through her interviews, Onal finds that the killer is often just as much a victim as the female he killed. ( 3 comments) |
 | | Book "Love in a Headscarf" Love of God, husband, and self By Asma T. Uddin, April 20, 2009 Like Divine Love, love for your spouse requires some extent of extinguishment of your “self”. Indeed, the very search for a husband teaches Shelina Zahra Janmohamed in her new book, Love in a Headscarf, her smallness in the larger landscape of the world. Love - with a lower-case “l” - happens when you just know that your partner is the person who completes you. ( 16 comments) |
 | | Introducing Altmuslimah Exploring both sides of the gender divide By Asma T. Uddin, March 8, 2009 The editors at Altmuslimah.com, a partner site to altmuslim.com, have embarked on an ambitious project: providing a space for compelling comment on gender in Islam, and building a platform for intra- and inter-community dialogue on a wide variety of gender-related issues ( 6 comments) |
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