Race and Rights Podcast
The Race and Rights podcast explores the myriad issues that adversely impact the civil and human rights of America’s diverse Muslim, Arab, and South Asian communities here as well as abroad. Host Sahar Aziz (www.saharazizlaw.com) engages with academics and experts that provide critical analysis of law, policy, and politics that center the experiences of under-represented communities in the United States and the Global South.
You can learn more about the Rutgers Center for Security, Race and Rights (CSRR) by visiting our website at csrr.rutgers.edu and by following CSRR on Instagram @RutgersCSRR and Twitter @RUCSRR
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Episodes
46 episodes
Punishing Atrocities and Fair Trials: From Nuremberg to Global Terrorism (Episode 46)
In this episode, we welcome Professor Jonathan Hafetz for an insightful discussion on the complex legal challenges involved in prosecuting individuals accused of mass crimes. Our conversation traces the development of international justice mech...
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The West, Israel and Settler Colonization of Palestine with Joseph Massad (Episode 45)
There is a critical need for a comprehensive examination of the historical forces that have shaped the Palestinian-Israeli conflict from its colonial origins to the present day. Professor Joseph Massad has meticulously analyzed Western imperial...
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Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine with Lara Sheehi (Episode 44)
"Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine" examines the profound concept of sumud—psychological resilience and defiance—within the context of Palestinian life under occupation and settler colonialism. This episode exp...
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The New Crusades: Islamophobia and the Global War on Muslims with Khaled Beydoun (Episode 43)
Islamophobia functions as a transnational political strategy weaponized by both democratic and authoritarian regimes worldwide. The American War on Terror has served as a crucial catalyst, amplifying and connecting anti-Muslim campaigns across ...
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Muhammad Ali with Jonathan Hafetz ( Episode 42)
Muhammad Ali is widely recognized as one of the greatest athletes of all-time and one of the most important figures of the 20th century. In addition to his long and celebrated career as a boxer and three-time heavyweight champion of the world, ...
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Hostile Homelands—The New Alliance Between India and Israel (Episode 41)
In this episode, we speak with award-winning investigative journalist Azad Essa about his research on the evolving relationship between India and Israel. Our conversation explores the historical development and contemporary significance of this...
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Hindutva in America: A Threat to Equality and Religious Pluralism, (Episode 40)
In this episode, Sahar Aziz is in dicussion with Dr. Audrey Truschke and Dr. Dheepa Sundaram about the new groundbreaking report published by CSRR entitled Hindutva in America: ...
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One State Reality: What is Palestine Israel (Episode 39)
In this episode, Professors Nathan J. Brown and Shibley Telhami, leading experts on the region and U.S. fo...
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The War Economy of the Fragmented Healthcare System in Syria (Episode 38)
In this episode, regional experts of the Middle East share their knowledge about Syria's healthcare system and how it has been affected by years of conflict. Based on research from the book "Everybody's War: Politics of Aid in t...
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Innocent Until Proven Muslim with Maha Hilal (Episode 37)
Host Sahar Aziz is in conversation with scholar and organizer Dr. Maha Hilal as she unpacks two decades of the War on Terror and its devastating...
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U.S. Military Aid to Israel During a Genocide in Gaza with Josh Paul ( Episode 36)
Sahar Aziz speaks with Josh Paul about the law, politics, and policies surrounding the United States decades long military aid to Israel and specifically how such aid makes the U.S. complicit in Israel’s genocidal campaign in Gaza since October...
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Global Islamophobia and the Rise of Populism with Audrey Truschke and Ivan Kalmar (Episode 35)
Dr. Audrey Truschke and Professor Ivan Kalmar analyze the alarming global surge in Islamophobic violence and discriminatory policies, particularly in Eastern Europe and South Asia. Our guests explore how economic and political inse...
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Carceral Apartheid with Brittany Friedman (Episode 34)
Prisons are a microcosm of how carceral apartheid operates as a larger governing strategy to decimate political targets and foster deceit, disinformation, and division in society. White supremacy within the institutional conditions in US prison...
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ICC Investigation of Biden Administration Officials for Aiding Israeli War Crimes with Sarah Leah Whitson (Episode 33)
In January of 2025, the human rights organization, Democracy in the Arab World Now (DAWN), made a formal request with the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate former U.S. officials President Joe ...
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Race and Empire: Legal Theory Within, Through and Across National Borders with Asli Bali (Episode 32)
In the Global South, the possibility of a post-imperial reality self-determined by former subjects of the empire has been undermined by the dominant Western narrative that centers “humanitarian initiatives, politics of counterterrorism, and mig...
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Post-Colonial Legality and Human Rights with Abdullahi An-Naim (Episode 31)
Autonomy and self-determination for all individuals cannot be realized and sustained unless true within every person. Enslavement and dehumanization remain true of citizens of imperial nations so long as they remain true for colonized peoples. ...
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Race, Women and the Global War on Terror with Sherene Razack (Episode 30)
This episode of the Race and Rights podcast features Professor Sherene Razack discuss how racialized Muslim bodies and gender are constructed by global white supremacy that produces a...
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Syria and Seismic Shifts in Middle East Politics with Bassam Haddad (Episode 29)
Syria's complex history and politics led to the overthrow of Bashar Al Assad on December 8, 2024 – as unexpected as the Arab Spring revolutions that gripped the Middle East thirteen years earlier. Located at the center of regional compet...
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The Two Faces of American Freedom with Aziz Rana (Episode 28)
Let’s take stock of the American experience within the global history of colonialism – specifically by examining the intertwined relationship in U.S. constitutional practice between internal accounts of freedom and external projects of power an...
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Islamophobia, Race and Global Politics with Nazia Kazi (Episode 27)
This week’s episode offers a powerful introduction to the scope of Islamophobia in the United States. The legacy of Barack Obama and the mainstream media’s typically negative portrayals of Muslims offer incisive examples into the vast impact of...
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Hate Crimes, Terrorism and the Framing of White Supremacist Violence with Shirin Sinnar (Episode 26)
In the face of pervasive racial violence in American society, the effort to address and subdue white supremacist extremism has been underserved by the framing of “hate crimes,” and the movement to re-frame these events as domestic terrorism, as...
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What Lies Ahead for Syria: A Conversation with Dr. Omar Dahi (Episode 25)
A complex array of domestic, regional, and international factors contributed to the rise of Hafez Al Assad as president of Syria in 1970 and the ultimate demise of his son, Bashar Al Assad on December 8, 2024 – thirteen years after the Syrian p...
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Trauma in Gaza: Palestinian Diaspora Experiences with Ghada Ageel (Episode 24)
In what a growing consensus of international legal scholars describe as a genocide, the sys...
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The Fall of Syria's Assad Regime: A Syrian American Perspective (Episode 23)
On December 8, 2024, the Syrian people overthrew Bashar Al Assad, bringing to an end a brutal fifty-four-year dictatorship. Although the Syrian people partook in the wave of revolutions during the Arab Spring, their efforts to bring about...
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The Illusory Peace in the Israeli Palestinian Conflict with Amb. Hesham Youssef (Episode 22)
The present state of the unfulfilled peace brokering process between Palestine and Israel stands to undermine any meaningful progression toward the two-state solution proffered by dominant actors in the West. Host
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