Rashidul Bari

The writer is a CRISP scholar at New York University.
Belgian soldiers and a police officer control the documents of a woman in a shopping street in central Brussels, November 21, 2015

Comment: To be (Muslim) or not to be?

I told him that “Allahu Akbar” used to mean “God is great,” but today it means violence, blood and terrorism.

NOVEMBER 28, 2015
ISIS militants

Terror of the Islamic State

As the world moves forward with women going to school, men critiquing the government and philosophers contemplating – the Muslim world, especially the Middle East, takes steps backwards.

APRIL 1, 2015
A woman wears a tape with the word 'Liberte' (Freedom) on her mouth during Paris solidarity march

I’m Muslim and I’m Charlie

So-called jihadists unleashed a terrible evil against Islam by killing the Charlie Hebdo journalists, Jewish shoppers, and French police.

JANUARY 14, 2015

Taliban terror

We need to unleash education to correct their behavior, and we need to begin it from NYU.

DECEMBER 31, 2014
Rescue workers and family members carry the coffin of a student, who killed during an attack by Taliban gunmen on the Army Public School, in Peshawar.

The trial of Malala

I, too, am a Malala, and I, too, am a servant of Education.

OCTOBER 29, 2014
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai of Pakistan speaks at the World's Children's Prize ceremony in Mariefred, Sweden