Creating Dangerous Muslims during the ‘War on Terror’

Mohammad Ebad Athar is a Ph.D. candidate in history at Syracuse University and is a graduate fellow at the Lender Center for Social Justice working on the impact of media coverage of Muslims during the War on Terror. His dissertation research examines the connections in the securitization of South Asian identity in the United States and the Persian Gulf during the ongoing Global War on Terror.

Nausheen Husain is a reporter who investigates aspects of the ongoing War on Terror that have to do with civil rights and incarceration. She is also an assistant professor of journalism and current faculty fellow at the Lender Center for Social Justice at Syracuse University, where her research is focused on agenda-setting news framing techniques of those targeted by War on Terror policies. She has published work in The Nation, The Huffington Post, The Chicago Tribune, and Oakland North.