September 18, 2016
Groundings, Conversation with Amin Husain and Nitasha Dhillon at cas·bah, as part of #DecolonizeThisPlace Exhibition in The Artists Space, New York City.
September 16, 2016
Lecture, “Field Notes from the Muslim International,” at the Institute of Comparative Literature and Society, Columbia University.
September 15, 2016
Groundings, Conversation with Amy Goodman, for book launch of Fifty Years of ‘The Battle of Algiers’: Past as Prologue, NYU Tishman Auditorium.
September 14, 2016
Lecture, Fifty Years of ‘The Battle of Algiers’: Past as Prologue, Program in Ethnicity, Race and Migration and the Department in Film Studies, Yale University.
September 13, 2016
Conversation as part of the Black Power 50 Series, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
April 21, 2016
Lecture and Panelist, Radical Islam: Islam and Muslims in Black & Latinx Radical Movements, Harvard University.
April 8, 2016
Lecture, “Between Theory and Threat: Writing Muslim Presence,” at the Being Muslim/Muslim Being: Mobilities and Practices Colloquium, Sarah Lawrence College.
March 31, 2016
Lecture, “Walter Rodney, Malcolm X and Decolonization,” at the Walter Rodney Speaker Series, Atlanta University Center.
March 30, 2016
Lecture, “The Battle of Algiers at 50,” at Georgia State University.
December 3, 2015
Lecture, “The Threat Hologram: Specters and Shadows of Race,” as part of Dangerous Conversations: Raced/Gendered/Classed Violence in the USA, at the Scripps Humanities Institute.
November 5, 2015
Lecture, “The Battle of Algiers: Past as Prologue in the War on Terror,” at the Art, Protest and Performance in the Age of Islamophobia Roundtable for the Colloquium on Ethnicity and Diaspora, Northwestern University.
November 3, 2015
Lecture, “The Battle of Algiers: Past as Prologue in the War on Terror,” at the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University.
April 29, 2015
Lecture, “Malcolm X and Empire,” at “Malcolm, Martin Muslims” Symposia, UCLA International Institute.
April 9, 2015
Keynote, “The Legacy of Malcolm X,” at the “Justice and Peace Lecture Series,” Minneapolis Community and Technical College.
April 6, 2015
Groundings, Conversation with Brother Ali on Return of the Mecca: The Art of Islam and Hip-Hop, Intermedia Arts.
February 28, 2015
Panelist, “Art and Literature as Catalysts for Social Change” at “The Muslim Protagonist: Art as Protest” Festival, Columbia University.
February 28, 2015
Panelist, “Hip-Hop and Protest” at “The Muslim Protagonist: Art as Protest” Festival, Columbia University.
February 18, 2015
Panelist, “What Malcolm Means Now,” at “Malcolm X: Life After Death” Colloquium at Princeton University.
November 22, 2014
Groundings, Conversation with Self Scientific (Chace Infinite, DJ Khalil) and Kam at the closing of Return of the Mecca: The Art of Islam and Hip-Hop Exhibition, William Grant Still Art Center.
October 22, 2014
Panelist and Moderator, for the film Time is Illmatic, Grammy Museum, with Director One9 and writer Erik Parker.
October 11, 2014
Groundings, Conversation with Chuck D and Rosa Clemente at the Return of the Mecca: The Art of Islam and Hip-Hop Exhibition, William Grant Still Art Center.
July 7, 2014
Lecture and Conversation, “Black Star, Crescent Moon: Malcolm X, Black Radicalism and the Muslim International,” at EHESS (School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences), Paris, France.
July 3, 2014
Lecture and Conversation, “Illmatic at 20,” (for the release of the French translation of Born to Use Mics: Reading Nas’s Illmatic), Paris Hip-Hop Festival.
June 20, 2014
Lecture and Panelist, “How the War on Terror Came Home,” BlueStockings Books.
May 25, 2014
Lecture and Conversation, “Black Star, Crescent Moon,” with Professor Asli Bali, Levantine Cultural Center.
May 22, 2014
Panelist, “All Eyez on Me: Race, Muslims & the Surveillance State,” Arab Resource and Organizing Center, San Francisco.
March 5, 2014
Lecture and Conversation, “Race, Politics and Neoliberalism after 9/11” (with Prof. Erica Edwards), at UCSD Department of Ethnic Studies “Thinking Race, Gender and Place: A Black Studies Project.”
February 19, 2014
Conversation with dream hampton, Robin D.G. Kelley and Jasiri X, on “Black Solidarity with and Palestine” as part of Groundings, UCLA.
February 10, 2014
Conversation with Immortal Technique as part of Groundings, Medina Gallery.
January 22, 2014
Lecture and Panelist, “At Lady Justice I Blaze Nine,” at UCI “Rap on Trial” with Dean Erwin Chemerinsky and Prof. Charis Kubrin.
January 15, 2014
Lecture, “The Dialectical Palestine,” UC Riverside.
December 9, 2013
Lecture, “To the East, Blackwards: Islam and Muslims in the Black Radical Imagination,” Center for Global Humanities, University of New England.
December 3, 2013
Lecture, “The Muslim International and the Specter of Race,” at the “Are We Really Post-Race?” Conference, University of Western Sydney.
December 2, 2013
Lecture and Discussion, “Race and the Politics of Performance” in Conversation with Aamer Rahman, Sydney Seminar for Culture and Society.
November 19, 2013
Keynote, “The Legacy of Malcolm X,” at “The After Malcolm Project,” Georgia State University.