Tazeen M. Ali
@tazeenmali.bsky.social
scholar of islam & gender in the US • currently writing on US & UK Muslims on TV • author of The Women’s Mosque of America: Authority & Community in US Islam NYUP • she/her • views are my own
Election day and keeping fingers crossed for NYC! Resharing my June article on Zohran Mamdani and the Islamophobia of the mayoral race, which has only gotten more egregious in the last weeks: arcmag.org/zohran-mamda...
Zohran Mamdani and the Making of a “Muslim Menace” | ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera
In a campaign mailer designed by a PAC supporting disgraced former New York governor and current mayoral hopeful Andrew Cuomo, Queens assembly member Zohran Mamdani’s image appears with his beard digi...
arcmag.org
November 4, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Election day and keeping fingers crossed for NYC! Resharing my June article on Zohran Mamdani and the Islamophobia of the mayoral race, which has only gotten more egregious in the last weeks: arcmag.org/zohran-mamda...
Excited to share my review of the legendary Cat Stevens’s new memoir. I reflect on how his legacy is shaped by the Rushdie fatwa controversy & what that says about Muslim identity, celebrity, and the politics of public redemption: arcmag.org/from-a-wild-...
From a Wild World to the Straight Path | ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera
Long before the folk legend Cat Stevens became Yusuf Islam, he was Steven Georgiou, the London-born son of a Greek Cypriot father and a Swedish mother. He adopted the name Cat Stevens in 1966 as he ro...
arcmag.org
October 6, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Excited to share my review of the legendary Cat Stevens’s new memoir. I reflect on how his legacy is shaped by the Rushdie fatwa controversy & what that says about Muslim identity, celebrity, and the politics of public redemption: arcmag.org/from-a-wild-...
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From "24" to "Homeland," Muslim men on TV were often terrorists or villains. Now, shows like "Ramy" and "Man Like Mobeen" written by Muslims are telling nuanced stories of faith, identity, and everyday life, according to a scholar of Islam and gender.
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Muslim men have often been portrayed as ‘terrorists’ or ‘fanatics’ on TV shows, but Muslim-led storytelling is trying to change that narrative
Post 9/11, brown and sometimes Black Muslim characters were portrayed as ‘good’ only when aligned with US state power. Muslim filmmakers are trying to change that.
theconversation.com
September 18, 2025 at 3:48 AM
From "24" to "Homeland," Muslim men on TV were often terrorists or villains. Now, shows like "Ramy" and "Man Like Mobeen" written by Muslims are telling nuanced stories of faith, identity, and everyday life, according to a scholar of Islam and gender.
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Check out my new piece in @us.theconversation.com on contemporary representations of gender and Muslim masculinity on television (also a glimpse into my current book project):
From "24" to "Homeland," Muslim men on TV were often terrorists or villains. Now, shows like "Ramy" and "Man Like Mobeen" written by Muslims are telling nuanced stories of faith, identity, and everyday life, according to a scholar of Islam and gender.
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Muslim men have often been portrayed as ‘terrorists’ or ‘fanatics’ on TV shows, but Muslim-led storytelling is trying to change that narrative
Post 9/11, brown and sometimes Black Muslim characters were portrayed as ‘good’ only when aligned with US state power. Muslim filmmakers are trying to change that.
theconversation.com
September 19, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Check out my new piece in @us.theconversation.com on contemporary representations of gender and Muslim masculinity on television (also a glimpse into my current book project):
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Tazeen M. Ali reviews 'Neo-Traditionalism in Islam in the West: Orthodoxy, Spirituality and Politics' by Walaa Quisay. readingreligion.org/978139950277...
September 2, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Tazeen M. Ali reviews 'Neo-Traditionalism in Islam in the West: Orthodoxy, Spirituality and Politics' by Walaa Quisay. readingreligion.org/978139950277...
I was featured on @npr.org ’s It’s Been a Minute, with host Brittany Luse and fellow scholar of religion, Nathan Lean @nathanlean.bsky.social , to discuss Islamophobia in the wake of Zohran Mamdani’s primary victory. The show aired yesterday and you can listen here: www.npr.org/2025/07/09/1...
Zohran Mamdani & the politics of "good" vs. "bad" Muslims : It's Been a Minute
Before, during, and after Zohran Mamdani became the Democratic nominee for mayor of New York City, Republicans and Democrats were both leaning into decades old Islamophobic tropes to delegitimize his ...
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July 10, 2025 at 1:48 PM
I was featured on @npr.org ’s It’s Been a Minute, with host Brittany Luse and fellow scholar of religion, Nathan Lean @nathanlean.bsky.social , to discuss Islamophobia in the wake of Zohran Mamdani’s primary victory. The show aired yesterday and you can listen here: www.npr.org/2025/07/09/1...
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Explore Arc's latest online journal piece on the shaping of a "Muslim Menace."
@tazeenmali.bsky.social, author of “The Women’s Mosque of America,” writes about the racial hurdles Zohran Mamdani faced on the way to his Tuesday mayoral primary upset.
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@tazeenmali.bsky.social, author of “The Women’s Mosque of America,” writes about the racial hurdles Zohran Mamdani faced on the way to his Tuesday mayoral primary upset.
Read more:
Zohran Mamdani and the Making of a “Muslim Menace” | ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera
In a campaign mailer designed by a PAC supporting disgraced former New York governor and current mayoral hopeful Andrew Cuomo, Queens assembly member Zohran Mamdani’s image appears with his beard…
buff.ly
June 27, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Explore Arc's latest online journal piece on the shaping of a "Muslim Menace."
@tazeenmali.bsky.social, author of “The Women’s Mosque of America,” writes about the racial hurdles Zohran Mamdani faced on the way to his Tuesday mayoral primary upset.
Read more:
@tazeenmali.bsky.social, author of “The Women’s Mosque of America,” writes about the racial hurdles Zohran Mamdani faced on the way to his Tuesday mayoral primary upset.
Read more:
Last day to vote in NYC! I wrote about how #ZohranMamdani ‘s Shia identity & progressive politics have elicited Islamophobic backlash, revealing the establishment’s unease w/ the expanding influence of his incredible movement #NYCPrimary arcmag.org/zohran-mamda...
Zohran Mamdani and the Making of a “Muslim Menace” | ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera
In a campaign mailer designed by a PAC supporting disgraced former New York governor and current mayoral hopeful Andrew Cuomo, Queens assembly member Zohran Mamdani’s image appears with his beard digi...
arcmag.org
June 24, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Last day to vote in NYC! I wrote about how #ZohranMamdani ‘s Shia identity & progressive politics have elicited Islamophobic backlash, revealing the establishment’s unease w/ the expanding influence of his incredible movement #NYCPrimary arcmag.org/zohran-mamda...
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We had a great visit with @tazeenmali.bsky.social! We discussed her chapter on "Ramy", Islamophobia, and masculinity, featuring thoughtful responding remarks from Greenberg Fellow Alexander Cacciato '25.
Dr. Ali also visited Prof. Ribovich's class to talk about television as pedagogy on religion.
Dr. Ali also visited Prof. Ribovich's class to talk about television as pedagogy on religion.
April 17, 2025 at 3:28 PM
We had a great visit with @tazeenmali.bsky.social! We discussed her chapter on "Ramy", Islamophobia, and masculinity, featuring thoughtful responding remarks from Greenberg Fellow Alexander Cacciato '25.
Dr. Ali also visited Prof. Ribovich's class to talk about television as pedagogy on religion.
Dr. Ali also visited Prof. Ribovich's class to talk about television as pedagogy on religion.
It was such a delight to speak to @gregsoden.bsky.social on his Classical Ideas podcast!
Episode 322 of Classical Ideas features a great chat on Ramy, Dubai Bling, and Muslim Matchmaker with @tazeenmali.bsky.social from Washington University! Thank you to @sacredwrites.bsky.social!
Listen: linktr.ee/classicalideas
Listen: linktr.ee/classicalideas
May 6, 2025 at 3:50 AM
It was such a delight to speak to @gregsoden.bsky.social on his Classical Ideas podcast!
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Episode 322 of Classical Ideas Podcast discusses Islam in television! We discuss her forthcoming project Muslims on Screen, Ramy, Dubai Bling, and Muslim Matchmaker! Thanks @tazeenmali.bsky.social and @sacredwrites.bsky.social!
Listen: linktr.ee/classicalideas
Listen: linktr.ee/classicalideas
May 2, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Episode 322 of Classical Ideas Podcast discusses Islam in television! We discuss her forthcoming project Muslims on Screen, Ramy, Dubai Bling, and Muslim Matchmaker! Thanks @tazeenmali.bsky.social and @sacredwrites.bsky.social!
Listen: linktr.ee/classicalideas
Listen: linktr.ee/classicalideas
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Excited to welcome @tazeenmali.bsky.social to campus on Wed. April 16. Dr. Ali will be participating in our Works-in-Progress lunch series, sharing a chapter from her upcoming book. Alexander Cacciato '25 will be her respondent. All are welcome to join us on Wed. April 16, 12-1:15 p.m. McCook 201.
April 14, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Excited to welcome @tazeenmali.bsky.social to campus on Wed. April 16. Dr. Ali will be participating in our Works-in-Progress lunch series, sharing a chapter from her upcoming book. Alexander Cacciato '25 will be her respondent. All are welcome to join us on Wed. April 16, 12-1:15 p.m. McCook 201.
My review of Hulu’s Muslim Matchmaker for Arc mag: arcmag.org/get-married-...
March 13, 2025 at 2:48 PM
My review of Hulu’s Muslim Matchmaker for Arc mag: arcmag.org/get-married-...
Ramadan Mubarak! For those interested in some light Ramadan reading or discussions of representation on TV, check out my open-access article “Representations of US Muslims in Hulu’s Ramy: Islamophobia, Religiosity, and Dating” in JRPC:
online.ucpress.edu/jrpc/article...
online.ucpress.edu/jrpc/article...
Representations of US Muslims in Hulu’s RamyIslamophobia, Religiosity, and Dating
This article investigates how Egyptian American comedian Ramy Youssef’s 2019 comedy-drama series Ramy disrupts dominant representations of Muslims in US entertainment media. The show explores the firs...
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March 2, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Ramadan Mubarak! For those interested in some light Ramadan reading or discussions of representation on TV, check out my open-access article “Representations of US Muslims in Hulu’s Ramy: Islamophobia, Religiosity, and Dating” in JRPC:
online.ucpress.edu/jrpc/article...
online.ucpress.edu/jrpc/article...
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Join us tomorrow for @tazeenmali.bsky.social “Performing Islamophobia: September 11th and the Specter of the Violent Muslim Man in Hulu's Ramy"
Details:
mavcor.yale.edu/node/20038
Details:
mavcor.yale.edu/node/20038
Tazeen Ali, "Performing Islamophobia: September 11th and the Specter of the Violent Muslim Man in Hulu's Ramy" | MAVCOR
mavcor.yale.edu
February 24, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Join us tomorrow for @tazeenmali.bsky.social “Performing Islamophobia: September 11th and the Specter of the Violent Muslim Man in Hulu's Ramy"
Details:
mavcor.yale.edu/node/20038
Details:
mavcor.yale.edu/node/20038
I had so much fun writing this piece on Dubai Bling - thank you to @publicbooks.bsky.social for giving it a home!
New at PB, Tazeen M Ali examines the gendered politics of womanhood, wealth, and power on Netflix’s “Dubai Bling”:
The Costs of Having It All: On Netflix’s “Dubai Bling”
“Dubai Bling” reveals contemporary shifts in public discourse on feminism and the patriarchal family unit.
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January 24, 2025 at 3:31 PM
I had so much fun writing this piece on Dubai Bling - thank you to @publicbooks.bsky.social for giving it a home!
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TOMORROW!
Kicking off the publication of “Martyrs and Migrants” in March, I will be in conversation with Zainab Saleh at the Crown Center for Middle East Studies. Register at the link below!
The book is available for pre-order now with @nyupress.bsky.social, use code NYUAU30 for 30% off!
Kicking off the publication of “Martyrs and Migrants” in March, I will be in conversation with Zainab Saleh at the Crown Center for Middle East Studies. Register at the link below!
The book is available for pre-order now with @nyupress.bsky.social, use code NYUAU30 for 30% off!
Kicking off the publication of “Martyrs and Migrants” (available for preorder with @nyupress.bsky.social), I will be in conversation with Zainab Saleh on the book’s stakes, methods, and themes at the Crown Center later this month. Register below! www.brandeis.edu/crown/events...
Martyrs and Migrants: Coptic Christians and the Persecution Politics of US Empire
www.brandeis.edu
January 21, 2025 at 3:35 PM
TOMORROW!
Kicking off the publication of “Martyrs and Migrants” in March, I will be in conversation with Zainab Saleh at the Crown Center for Middle East Studies. Register at the link below!
The book is available for pre-order now with @nyupress.bsky.social, use code NYUAU30 for 30% off!
Kicking off the publication of “Martyrs and Migrants” in March, I will be in conversation with Zainab Saleh at the Crown Center for Middle East Studies. Register at the link below!
The book is available for pre-order now with @nyupress.bsky.social, use code NYUAU30 for 30% off!
Check out my conversation with the National Museum of American Religion on the life of Dr. Betty Shabazz, educator, civil rights advocate, and wife of Malcolm X.
Available on YouTube and widely on other podcast platforms:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=sgRA...
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Available on YouTube and widely on other podcast platforms:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=sgRA...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...
The Women and Men of American Religion. Story 7: Dr. Betty Shabazz
YouTube video by National Museum of American Religion
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January 15, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Check out my conversation with the National Museum of American Religion on the life of Dr. Betty Shabazz, educator, civil rights advocate, and wife of Malcolm X.
Available on YouTube and widely on other podcast platforms:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=sgRA...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...
Available on YouTube and widely on other podcast platforms:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=sgRA...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...
Looking forward to being a part of this cohort!
Please put your virtual hands together for the intrepid cohort of religion, gender, and sexuality scholars selected for our January Intensive Public Scholarship Training, funded by the Carpenter Foundation! 👏 meet them below and www.sacred-writes.org/carpenter-co...
2025 Carpenter Cohorts — Sacred Writes
Sacred Writes’ trainings provide scholars with opportunities to acquire skills, identify resources, push disciplinary boundaries, and build communities of accountability and support to produce public ...
www.sacred-writes.org
December 31, 2024 at 8:50 PM
Looking forward to being a part of this cohort!