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Teaching and Learning in a diverse classroom is a four-week, instructor-paced online course for anyone with teaching responsibilities at Cornell, at any level of diversity expertise. Modules explore strategies for inclusive course design, social identity and self-reflection, and pedagogical practices that effectively support student engagement and a sense of belonging across difference.
The Center for Dialogue and Pluralism supports Cornell University’s academic DEI education efforts by developing and leading multiphase and multi-party educational opportunities rooted in core intergroup dialogue processes and tailored to the needs of different constituencies on campus.
Various definitions of Islamophobia and anti-Arab racism that can contribute to constructive dialogue aimed at recognizing, preventing and combatting Islamophobia and anti-Arab racism are listed at the links below:
Online Resources
- Protecting Student Mental Health in the Face of Antisemitism and Islamophobia
- The Bridge Initiative at Georgetown University – What is Islamophobia?
- Challenge Islamophobia: A Project for Teaching for Change
- US department of Justice – Learn About Hate Crimes
- The UC Berkeley HAAS Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society — “Islamophobia in the United States: A Resource Reading Pack”
- ‘Backlash Effect’: Why the Middle East Conflict Triggers Hate Crimes in the US
- U.S. Department of Education Resources for Preventing and Addressing Islamophobia in Schools
Webinar and Lectures
- Academic Freedom and Middle East Scholars after October 7, Shibley Telhami (University of Maryland) and Marc Lynch (George Washington University).
- Out of Time: On the Rise and Resilience of Anti-Muslim Bigotry Today, Moustafa Bayoumi, Journalist and Professor of English, Brooklyn College, City University of New York.
- Racializing Religion: Islamophobia, Antisemitism and Palestine, Sahar Aziz, Professor of law, Middle East Legal Studies Scholar and Chancellor’s Social Justice Scholar, Rutgers University Law School.
- Striving for Tolerance and Interfaith Cooperation Lecture by Dr. Eboo Patel, Founder and Executive Director of the Interfaith Youth Core in Chicago.
- What’s Jewish About Social Justice? Ruth Messinger, global ambassador and former president of American Jewish World Service, posed the question of how Judaism and social justice movements are connected.
- eCornell: Twenty Years Of War: The Global War on Terror, Security Statecraft, and Racial Justice
- The Intersectionality of Antisemitism, Islamophobia and Racism Ross Brann, the Milton R. Konvitz Professor of Judeo-Islamic Studies and Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow, reviews the intersection of antisemitism, Islamophobia, and racism in history.
- The Birth of Modern Europe and the Expulsion of Muslims and Jews from Spain Tariq Ali, novelist and filmmaker, discusses the fall of the Kingdom of Granada in 1492 coincided with the expulsion of Jews from Catholic Spain, while the Muslims were expelled in 1526.
On Campus Programs
Readings
- Green Todd H. Green (2015), The Fear of Islam: An Introduction to Islamophobia in the West, 2nd ed. Minneapolis: Fortress Press
- Beydoun, Khaled (2018) American Islamophobia: Understanding the Roots and Rise of Fear, Oakland, California: University of California Press
- Awan, Imran (ed) (2016) Islamophobia in Cyberspace: Hate Crimes Go Viral, Abingdon, Oxon, England; New York : Ashgate
- Love, Erik (2017) Islamophobia and Racism in America, New York: New York University Press
- Tischauser, Jeffrey (2010) ANTI-ARAB AND ANTI-MUSLIM BIAS IN AMERICAN NEWSPAPERS: How They Reported the 2006 Israeli-Hezbollah and Israeli-Hamas Wars
- Anan Ameri and Holly Arida, editors (2012). Daily life of Arab Americans in the 21st century, Santa Barbara: Greenwood