Dr. Afridi is an Associate Professor of Religious studies and Director of Holocaust, Genocide, and Interfaith Education Center at Manhattan College. She is committed to interfaith, and the Holocaust education. She is interested in contemporary Isl
...MoreDr. Afridi is an Associate Professor of Religious studies and Director of Holocaust, Genocide, and Interfaith Education Center at Manhattan College. She is committed to interfaith, and the Holocaust education. She is interested in contemporary Islam, and issues of gender within Islam. She teaches a variety of courses on Islam, Judaism, world religions, genocide studies, women and religion, Arab, and Israeli Literature. Her articles have appeared in books such as; Sacred Tropes: Tanakh, New Testament, and Qur'an as Literature and Culture, (Brill, 2006). “Not Your father’s Anti-Semitism: Hatred of the Jews in the 21st Century” (Paragon House, 2008). “Gurdwara Sikh Killings: Domestic or Global Taxonomy of Terrorism?”(Taylor & Francis, 2013). “The Role of Muslims and the Holocaust” in Oxford Handbooks Online, (Oxford University Press, 2015). She is the co-editor of a book entitled: “Orhan Pamuk and Global Literature: Existentialism and Politics” (May 2012, Palgrave Macmillan), and her recent book, “Shoah through Muslim Eyes” (Academic Studies Press, 2017).
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Global Studies
