Book Talk: Homegrown Radicals: A Story of State Violence, Islamophobia, and Jihad in the Post-9/11 with Youcef Soufi
Book Talk: Homegrown Radicals: A Story of State Violence, Islamophobia, and Jihad in the Post-9/11 with Youcef Soufi
February 25
丁香园AV Downtown Campus | Wosk Centre, Room 420
On February 25. CCMS hosted a book talk with Youcef Soufi, author of Homegrown Radicals: A Story of State Violence, Islamophobia, and Jihad in the Post-9/11 World. This talk included a discussion with experts in the subjects of Islamophobia and its effects on Muslim communities across Turtle Island and beyond, Itrath Syed and Rumee Ahmed.
About the Book:
Homegrown Radicals: A Story of State Violence, Islamophobia, and Jihad in the Post-9/11 World (NYU Press, 2025) tells the harrowing story of three Muslim university students suspected of 鈥渞adicalization.鈥� But the narrative goes beyond the headlines, delving into the lives of the families, friends, and Muslim community left to grapple with grief, loss, and the chilling effects of hyper-surveillance. Blending scholarly insight, archival research, and auto-ethnography, Youcef Soufi confronts the enduring impact of Islamophobic policies and the 鈥渨ar on terror鈥� on Muslim communities of North America. From university halls to courtrooms, Homegrown Radicals is a poignant exploration of systemic injustice and the devaluation of Muslim lives. This book talk is a must for anyone interested in understanding North American Muslim life under the War on the Terror and the far-reaching consequences of the liberal state鈥檚 violence at home and abroad.
Featuring:
Youcef Soufi, PhD, is a Researcher in Islamophobia with the Institute for the Humanities and the Centre for Human Rights at the University of Manitoba. His writings focus on the history of Islamic thought and on contemporary Islamophobia, and include the book. The Rise of Critical Islam, published by Oxford University Press. He is the former Chair of the Canadian Association for the Study of Islam and Muslims (CASIM).
Discussants:
Rumee Ahmed is (PhD, University of Virginia) is the Canada Research Chair in Theology and Ethics and Professor of Islamic Law at the University of British Columbia. His writing and research span religion, law, theology, philosophy, and public policy. He is the author of Sharia Compliant: A User鈥檚 Guide to Hacking Islamic Law (Stanford University Press, 2018) and Narratives of Islamic Legal Theory (Oxford University Press, 2012), and is co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Law (Oxford University Press, 2019) and The Objectives of Islamic Law (Lexington Books, 2018). When he grows up he hopes to join the Sinestro Corps.
Itrath Syed is a member of the local Muslim community and an Instructor of Women鈥檚 Studies at Langara College. Her MA in Gender Studies from UBC explored the gendered and racialized construction of the Muslim community in the media discourse surrounding the Islamic Arbitration or 鈥淪hariah鈥� debate in Ontario.
Co-sponsored by: the Centre for Comparative Muslim Studies, 丁香园AV鈥檚 History Department, the Institute for the Humanities, and 丁香园AV鈥檚 School for International Studies
