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Graduate Workshop—Questions of Belonging: Agency, Erasure, and Visibility in Germany and the US
October 31, 2023 @ 11:30 am – 1:00 pm
Location: Alumni Board Room, Mason Hall
All Hopkins graduate students interested in a conversation with Mohamed Amjahid about racism, immigration, LGBTQ communities in Europe, North Africa, and the United States are welcome to join.
Lunch will be provided. Please RSVP by October 27th, 2023.
As a freelance investigative journalist, Mohamed Amjahid regularly covers topics such as racism and police violence in Germany, the upheavals in the Middle East and North Africa as well as far-right and “anti-woke” politics in the US and their global impact.
This year, Amjahid wrote a critical piece on the history of Quran burnings in Europe for the weekly Der Spiegel and articles on patriarchal, heteronormative, anti-LGBTQ+ policies in the US and Germany.
Amjahid is also the author of Among Whites. What It Means to Be Privileged (Hanser Berlin, 2017) and Whitewash: A Guide to Antiracist Thinking (Piper, 2021), which received much popular and critical acclaim. Last year, he published a compelling travelogue, Let’s Talk about Sex, Habibi. Love and Desire from Casablanca to Cairo (Piper), which offers a nuanced portray of the region and challenges Western stereotypes and prejudices against Muslims.
This workshop is part of the event series “Questions of Belonging. Agency, Erasure, and Visibility in Germany and the US,” which is generously funded by the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany, the Department of History as well as the JHU programs in Racism, Immigration, and Citizenship, Jewish Studies, and Women, Gender, Sexuality.
