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Aryna Sabalenka proposes rule change for top 10 WTA and ATP stars | Tennis | Sport

Aryna Sabalenka has called on tennis’ lawmakers to make a drastic change for the top 10 players in…
#Tennis #News #ArynaSabalenka #CanadianOpen #Mediaappearances #Sabalenkapressconference #tennisnews #tennisrulechange #Top10players #USOpen
https://www.europesays.com/tennis/46432/

WNBA Reacts to Angel Reese Announcement on Wednesday https://www.rawchili.com/4984360/ #AngelReese #Atlanta #MediaAppearances #MichelleObama #WNBA

Video: In the Future, We’ll All Speak Seven Languages

For the Muslim Futures anthology, I was interviewed by Ryah Aqel, one of the editors, about my story and what it means to me.

In the Future, We'll ALL Speak Seven Languages by Karim AhmadA chat with Hussein Rashid about his MUSLIM FUTURES story, “HO JAMALO”! Read

https://husseinrashid.com/2026/03/16/video-in-the-future-well-all-speak-seven-languages.html/

#MediaAppearances #Video #comics #fiction #MuslimFutures #Publication

Video: In the Future, We’ll All Speak Seven Languages

For the Muslim Futures anthology, I was interviewed by Ryah Aqel, one of the editors, about my story and what it means to me.

In the Future, We'll ALL Speak Seven Languages by Karim AhmadA chat with Hussein Rashid about his MUSLIM FUTURES story, “HO JAMALO”! Read

https://husseinrashid.com/2026/03/16/video-in-the-future-well-all-speak-seven-languages.html/

#MediaAppearances #Video #comics #fiction #MuslimFutures #Publication

Graymalkin Lane on Arabian Knight Podcast

Always excited to join my friends on Graymalkin Lane to discuss the X-Men. This episode is about Arabian Knight, Orientalism, and having a good time.

https://husseinrashid.com/2026/02/19/graymalkin-lane-on-arabian-knight-podcast.html/

#MediaAppearances #comics #Orientalism #podcast #XMen

In the News: How Shia Muslims in NYC feel about having a mayor who shares their faith

I was recently interviewed by NY1 News about what it means to be a Shi'ah Muslim in New York City with a Shi'ah mayor. The original article is here, and the video is embedded below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s

https://husseinrashid.com/2026/02/05/in-the-news-how-shia-muslims-in-nyc-feel-about-having-a-mayor-who-shares-their-faith.html/

#MediaAppearances #Religion #intrafaith #NYC #Shiism

Doha Debates: Are superheroes the moral leaders of our time?

Over the summer I took part in a Doha Debate on whether superheroes are the moral leaders of our time or not.

Video version.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x01NIvKNE-U

Audio version.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/doha-debates-podcast/id1

https://husseinrashid.com/2026/02/05/doha-debates-are-superheroes-the-moral-leaders-of-our-time.html/

#MediaAppearances #Video #comics #PopularCulture #superheroes

Doha Debates: Are superheroes the moral leaders of our time?

Over the summer I took part in a Doha Debate on whether superheroes are the moral leaders of our time or not.

Video version.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x01NIvKNE-U

Audio version.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/doha-debates-podcast/id1

https://husseinrashid.com/2026/02/05/doha-debates-are-superheroes-the-moral-leaders-of-our-time.html/

#MediaAppearances #Video #comics #PopularCulture #superheroes

Arizona Diamondbacks Player Reviews: #14 Lourdes Gurriel Jr.

Overview 2025 Stats: .248/.295/.418, 95 OPS+, 0.5 bWAR Date of Birth: October 10, 1993 2025 Earnings: $14,000,000 2026 Status: Player exercised option…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #MLB #D-backs #gabrielmoreno #LourdesGurrielJr. #mediaappearances #Sports
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/372038/

Arizona Diamondbacks Player Reviews: #14 Lourdes Gurriel Jr. https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/494897/ #Baseball #DBacks #GabrielMoreno #LourdesGurrielJr. #MediaAppearances #MLB

Quoted in RNS about No Kings Rally and Religion

New York faith leaders join 'No Kings' march against Trump administration agenda

Hussein Rashid, a Muslim scholar who teaches at Union Theological Seminary, addressed the crowd wearing a T-shirt reading “Salam,” Arabic for peace. “God is called the compassionate and the merciful often in the Qura

https://husseinrashid.com/2025/10/quoted-in-rns-about-no-kings-rally-and-religion.html

#MediaAppearances #Politics #Religion #interfaith

Quoted in RNS about No Kings Rally and Religion

New York faith leaders join 'No Kings' march against Trump administration agenda

Hussein Rashid, a Muslim scholar who teaches at Union Theological Seminary, addressed the crowd wearing a T-shirt reading “Salam,” Arabic for peace. “God is called the compassionate and the merciful often in the Qura

https://husseinrashid.com/2025/10/quoted-in-rns-about-no-kings-rally-and-religion.html

#MediaAppearances #Politics #Religion #interfaith

CNN Short Doc on Harvard Departure

CNN ran a short doc on my departure from Harvard. Two versions of the same documentary are embedded below.

https://youtu.be/TRw-SXhkNZ0

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/TjqtUW4ljcA

https://husseinrashid.com/2025/10/cnn-short-doc-on-harvard-departure.html

#MediaAppearances #AntiMuslimBias #Harvard #racism #ReligionAndPublicLife #ReligiousLiteracy

CNN Short Doc on Harvard Departure

CNN ran a short doc on my departure from Harvard. Two versions of the same documentary are embedded below.

https://youtu.be/TRw-SXhkNZ0

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/TjqtUW4ljcA

https://husseinrashid.com/2025/10/cnn-short-doc-on-harvard-departure.html

#MediaAppearances #AntiMuslimBias #Harvard #racism #ReligionAndPublicLife #ReligiousLiteracy

Quoted in New York Times on Harvard Protest

The Harvard ‘Die-in’ That Set Off a Debate Over Protest and Punishment

“This became a good case study because it involved an Arab man and Black man in a way that they could use racist language to pull into these stereotypes,” said Hussein Rashid, a former Harvard Divinity School l

https://husseinrashid.com/2025/10/quoted-in-new-york-times-on-harvard-protest.html

#MediaAppearances #AntiMuslimBias #Harvard #racism #ReligionAndPublicLife

Harvard Crimson on Harvard’s Racism

‘A Campaign of Anti-Palestinian Racism’: HDS Students, Alumni Decry Program Suspension

In January, RPL Associate Dean Diane L. Moore and Assistant Dean for RPL Hussein Rashid departed unexpectedly. In a blistering resignation letter, Rashid accused Harvard of enabling anti-Muslim bias by failing

https://husseinrashid.com/2025/04/harvard-crimson-on-harvards-racism.html

#MediaAppearances #AntiMuslimBias #Harvard #racism #ReligionAndPublicLife

Harvard Crimson on My Resignation

Leaders of Harvard Divinity School’s Religion and Public Life Program To Depart Abruptly

Rashid wrote in his resignation letter that Harvard had failed to adequately respond to statements against RPL by Harvard-affiliated groups, which he described as racist and false.“I have no choice but to read th

https://husseinrashid.com/2025/02/harvard-crimson-on-my-resignation.html

#MediaAppearances #AntiMuslimBias #Harvard #racism #ReligionAndPublicLife

Harvard Crimson on RCPI Suspension

Harvard Divinity School Suspends Religion, Conflict, and Peace Initiative

The RPL program has already seen significant leadership turnover in recent months. Its director, Diane L. Moore, announced her retirement in January, departing a semester earlier than originally planned.And its assistant dire

https://husseinrashid.com/2025/04/harvard-crimson-on-rcpi-suspension.html

#MediaAppearances #AntiMuslimBias #Harvard #racism #ReligionAndPublicLife

Harvard Crimson Student Reflection

Harvard Dismantled the Program That Changed My Life

Three weeks ago, HDS announced it would “suspend” RCPI amidst budget cuts and accusations of one-sidedness. HDS also let go of Hilary Rantisi, a dedicated teacher, scholar, and mentor — and the only Palestinian American employed at HDS. In January

https://husseinrashid.com/2025/04/harvard-crimson-student-reflection.html

#MediaAppearances #AntiMuslimBias #Harvard #racism #ReligionAndPublicLife

Harvard Crimson on Discrimination Complaints

Nearly 200 Harvard Affiliates File Complaints Alleging ‘Hostile Environment’ for Palestinians, Arabs, and Muslims

Both Jay Ulfelder, program director of Harvard Kennedy School’s Nonviolent Action Lab and Hussein Rashid, Assistant Dean of Religion and Public Life at the Harvard D

https://husseinrashid.com/2025/02/harvard-crimson-on-discrimination-complaints.html

#MediaAppearances #AntiMuslimBias #Harvard #racism #ReligionAndPublicLife

Harvard Crimson on Closure of RPL

A Divinity School Program Became a Political Liability. In One Semester, Harvard Took It Apart.

 The report on combating anti-Arab, anti-Muslim, and anti-Palestinian bias raised concerns about the recent leadership changes within the program, referencing Rashid’s accusations of bias within the Univer

https://husseinrashid.com/2025/08/harvard-crimson-on-closure-of-rpl.html

#MediaAppearances #AntiMuslimBias #Harvard #racism #ReligionAndPublicLife

NBC News Story

How a Harvard initiative studying the Israeli-Palestinian conflict collapsed

“Nobody came to our defense,” said Hussein Rashid, the program’s former assistant dean, who resigned from his post in January and left at the end of June. “Our students were fantastic — our administrators were cowards.”…The next day, Rashid sent his own scathin

https://husseinrashid.com/2025/07/nbc-news-story.html

#MediaAppearances #AntiMuslimBias #Harvard #racism #ReligionAndPublicLife

Harvard Islamica Podcast

https://soundcloud.com/harvard-islamic/ep-18-islam-in-north-america-dr-hussein-rashid?si=b3811531a2d0438797e6559d7bcd0e83&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

In this episode, Dr. Hussein Rashid talks about his recently published volume, Islam in North America: An Introduction (Bloomsbur

https://husseinrashid.com/2025/02/harvard-islamica-podcast.html

#Books #MediaAppearances #Religion #Resources #MuslimsInAmerica #Publication

RNS: Administrators at Harvard Divinity School quit, say school condoned hate

Administrators at Harvard Divinity School quit, say school condoned hate

“Since I was a student here decades ago, I have been acutely aware of the anti-Muslim bias (amongst other racisms and discriminatory attitudes that exist he

https://husseinrashid.com/2025/02/rns-administrators-at-harvard-divinity-school-quit-say-school-condoned-hate.html

#MediaAppearances #education #interfaith #ReligiousLiteracy

Media: WBUR on Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

Four previously unknown recordings of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, the Pakistani singer known as the ‘King of the Kings of Qawwali’ who died in 1997, have been rediscovered on a warehouse shelf in England. They’re released on a new album called “Chain of Light.”

Michael Brook — the Canadian guitarist and composer who recorded the new

https://husseinrashid.com/2024/10/media-wbur-on-nusrat-fateh-ali-khan.html

#MediaAppearances #Music #qawwali #sufism

Media: WBUR on Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

Four previously unknown recordings of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, the Pakistani singer known as the ‘King of the Kings of Qawwali’ who died in 1997, have been rediscovered on a warehouse shelf in England. They’re released on a new album called “Chain of Light.”

Michael Brook — the Canadian guitarist and composer who recorded the new

https://husseinrashid.com/2024/10/media-wbur-on-nusrat-fateh-ali-khan.html

#MediaAppearances #Music #qawwali #sufism

Media Appearance: God at the Movies

God at the Movies: The Enduring Influence of Religion in Film

“Marvel is doing some interesting things with religion,” says Hussein Rashid, assistant dean for Religion and Public Life at Harvard Divinity School. He mentions Loki and Thor about Norse Gods, and Moon Knightabout Egyptian Gods. “I am really curious to see if they will explor

https://husseinrashid.com/2024/04/media-appearance-god-at-the-movies.html

#MediaAppearances #media #movies

WBUR: Faith leaders reflect on difficult questions as Israel-Hamas war colors holy days

Faith leaders reflect on difficult questions as Israel-Hamas war colors holy days

Rabbi Josh Franklin, Pastor and author Henry Brinton and Muslim elder Hussein Rashid answer the question, "What is the most difficult question you

https://husseinrashid.com/2024/03/wbur-faith-leaders-reflect-on-difficult-questions-as-israel-hamas-war-colors-holy-days.html

#MediaAppearances #Religion #interfaith

District 214 hosts World Religions Summit, explores religious diversity in a multicultural society

District 214 hosts World Religions Summit, explores religious diversity in a multicultural society

The all-day summit brought together 75 students from four schools, cl

https://husseinrashid.com/2024/03/district-214-hosts-world-religions-summit-explores-religious-diversity-in-a-multicultural-society.html

#Events #MediaAppearances #Religion #Conference #education #ReligiousLiteracy

Podcast: Generation M: Time and Again

The great journalist Ahmed Ali Akbar invited be to his recap show of Ms. Marvel to talk Episode 5, "Time and Again," about Partition.

You can find the episode here.

https://husseinrashid.com/2023/12/podcast-generation-m-time-and-again.html

#MediaAppearances #Religion #comics #history #MsMarvel #MsMarvel #partition #SouthAsia #television

WBUR Here and Now: Community leader on uptick in Islamophobia amid mideast conflict

Here & Now host Scott Tong asks Rabbi Josh Stanton and Muslim elder Hussein Rashidhow they are counseling and consoling their flock during this time of heightened anger, hatred and violence becaus

https://husseinrashid.com/2023/10/wbur-here-and-now-community-leader-on-uptick-in-islamophobia-amid-mideast-conflict.html

#Interfaith #MediaAppearances #Religion #antisemitism #conflict #hope #Islamophobia

MSNBC: Faith and Peace Amid a Potential War

I was recently invited to join a panel on MSNBC with my friends Rabbi Joshua Stanton and Dr. Rev. Jacqui Lewis to talk about religion and peace.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=gV0-H4CwCug

https://husseinrashid.com/2023/10/msnbc-faith-and-peace-amid-a-potential-war.html

#Interfaith #MediaAppearances #conflict #ReligiousLiteracy

Quoted in RNS Story on Daredevil

Marvel’s latest adversary for ‘Daredevil’ exposes its blindness to antisemitic art

Not everyone sees the “Daredevil” images as only antisemitic. “The image also seems to pull on anti-Arab imagery,” said Hussein Rashid, an independent scholar whose focus is religion and comics.

“The use of symbols against an adversary or The Adversar

https://husseinrashid.com/2023/10/quoted-in-rns-story-on-daredevil.html

#MediaAppearances #Religion #comics