Sociology 250, "Social Theory," Fall 2007.
Sociology 700, Graduate Course, "Social Theory," Fall 2007.
Sociology 273, "Social and Economic Justice," Spring 2007.
Sociology 950.2, 1-credit Graduate Course, "Middle East Politics," Spring 2007.
Sociology
119, "Sociology of Islam," Spring 2006.
Sociology 326.6, Graduate Course, "Celebrity Status," Spring 2005 (now a major motion picture).
Sociology
311, Graduate Course, "Political Sociology," Fall 2003.
Bad advice
to graduate students, from a fellow graduate student in the throes of dissertation-writing.
Good advice
on writing. Good advice
on framing novel arguments. Good advice
on networking.
Islamic and Middle Eastern studies:
Islamic statements against terrorism in the wake of the September 11 mass murders.
Carolina Center for
the Study of the Middle East and Muslim Civilizations.
- Upcoming
Carolina events related to Middle Eastern and Islamic studies.
Middle East Sociology Working Group.
The Unthinkable Revolution in Iran (Harvard University Press, 2004) (or Amazon.com).
Liberal
Islam: A Source-Book, edited by Charles Kurzman (Oxford University
Press, 1998).
- Liberal
Islam web links.
- Click to order book from Oxford
University Press or Amazon.com.
Modernist
Islam, 1840-1940: A Source-Book, edited by Charles Kurzman (Oxford
University Press, 2002).
- Click to order book from Oxford
University Press or Amazon.com.
Iranian Family Attitudes Survey.
Some of my articles and lectures:
- Xenophobia in Wartime America, "The State of Things," WUNC-FM, December 6, 2007.
- Welcome to World Peace, Christian Science Monitor, August 30, 2006 (with Neil Englehart).
- Bin
Laden and Other Thoroughly Modern Muslims, Contexts Magazine,
Fall-Winter 2002.
- Convocation
Address: On Approaching the Qur'an, University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill, August 18, 2002.
- Who
Speaks for Islam Today?, News and Observer
(Raleigh, N.C.), December 2, 2001.
- Understanding
the Attack on America, speech at peace rally, Chapel Hill, N.C., September
17, 2001.
- Lost
Opportunities: Limits of U.S. Support for Constitutionalism in Iran,
The
Iranian, April 19, 2000.
- Liberal
Islam: Prospects and Challenges (html
version), Middle East Review
of International Affairs, September 1999.
- more articles available through my curriculum
vitae.
Mr. Fish, "A Cartoon," Harper's Magazine Online, July 19, 2007
![From J. Clement, "Reflections on [the National Arts Council of Canada] Turning Fifty," National Post, 2007](http://img186.imageshack.us/img186/9746/canadacouncil1xc2.jpg)
From Gary Clement, "Reflections on [the Canada Council for the Arts] Turning 50,"
National Post, April 5, 2007
Unidentified photograph, purchased in Istanbul, Turkey, May 2008
