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The politics of piety and secularism

In this video interview from the Oecumene project's second symposium, Saba Mahmood discusses Malala Yousufzai, women's reform movements in the Middle East and the politics of piety.

This video is part of a series this week from the Oecumene project's second symposium, including the keynote speech from Saba Mahmood. All of the videos will appear on the Oecumene: Citizenship after Orientalism partnership page, funded by the Oecumene Project and the Open University.

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Saba Mahmood

Saba Mahmood is an associate professor of social cultural anthropology at UC Berkeley. She was awarded the 2013 Axel Springer Berlin Prize Fellowship at the American Academy in Berlin. Her books include Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject (2011).

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