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On April 27, 2013 BBC Persian aired a TV piece on the situation in the Uyghur Xinjiang Autonomous Region. The feature was followed by an interview with Haiyun Ma, an Adjunct Professor of Chinese History who specializes in the study of Islam and Muslims in China at George Mason University. He provided some background on the Xinjiang region and its tense relationship with China — noting that outbreaks of violence earlier that week cannot be easily labeled as terrorism or a human rights violation.

Both features have been dubbed in Persian. (ISLAMiCommentary facilitated this interview).

For more detail and a summary in English see: http://islamicommentary.org/2013/04/haiyun-ma-violence-in-xinjiang-human-rights-violation-or-terrorism/

UNC-Chapel Hill Islamic Studies Professor Carl Ernst and Duke University Muslim Chaplain Abdullah Antepli discuss Sharia at a public talk at Duke, April 18, 2013, in response to a question about what it means in the U.S.

See here for more information about the talk and the panel: http://islamicommentary.org/2013/04/watch-duke-and-unc-scholars-muslim-chaplainwral-tv-anchor-discuss-boston-marathon-attacks-islamophobia-nc-muslims-and-interfaith-relations/

Interview with Banu Gökariksel at the Duke/UNC Mideast Consortium "ReOrienting the Veil" conference. Topics included themes around identity, fashion and politics of Islamic veiling,including in Turkey, Indonesia and Europe and halal makeup. Interview by Julie Poucher Harbin, Editor, ISLAMiCommentary.

Dr. Arturo Jiménez-Cruz is a Professor at the Medical School at Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, in Tijuana, México. In this "Notes Around the World", he presents his research on risk factors of childhood obesity in Mexico.

David Schanzer, associate professor of the practice for public policy at Duke and director of the Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security (a research consortium between Duke, UNC-Chapel Hill and RTI International) speaks at a panel discussion at Duke University following the screening of "Faith, Fear & Freedom" about North Carolina's Muslim population-- moderated by WRAL Anchor David Crabtree. April 18, 2013.

Panelists from left: Carl Ernst, Amna Baloch, David Crabtree, David Schanzer and Abdullah Antepli.

For Carl Ernst's direct response to Schanzer's above comments watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keCL01xNJrk

More info on the public discussion at Duke see: http://islamicommentary.org/2013/04/w...
Full video of the discussion: http://youtu.be/6lw9CQMS-6M?t=29m29s

This event was sponsored by the Duke Islamic Studies Center, ISLAMiCommentary, Durham County Library and WRAL-TV, and made possible by a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York.

Co-sponsors included the British Council's Our Shared Future project, Center for Muslim Life (Duke), Carolina Center for the Study of the Middle East and Muslim Civilizations (UNC-Chapel Hill), DeWitt Wallace Center for MEDIA & DEMOCRACY (Duke), Duke-UNC Consortium for Middle East Studies, Franklin Humanities Institute (Duke), Sanford School of Public Policy (Duke), and the Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security (Duke/UNC/RTI).