09-11-2026

As the 25th anniversary of the September 11, 2001, attacks approaches, some may wonder if increased vetting or possible distrust of Muslims in the United States caused fewer people from the Islamic world to immigrate here.

Mahmood Mamdani is often described as the father of Zohran Mamdani, NYC's next mayor. But long before his son's political ambitions, Mamdani was a prominent scholar whose work examined colonialism and anti-colonialism in Africa.