Shoah through Muslim Eyes

About Mehnaz M. Afridi

Mehnaz M. Afridi earned her PhD in Religious Studies from the University of South Africa. She currently serves as Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Director of the Holocaust Genocide and Interfaith Education Center at Manhattan College (Riverdale NY). Her research interests include the Holocaust; interreligious identity; post-genocide identity; Diaspora and Transnational Studies; and feminist post-colonial theory. Her publications and presentations have focused on the Quran and human rights Islamic Literature and Culture; Judaism & Islam Holocaust and antisemitism including her co-edited book Global Perspectives on Orhan Pamuk: Existentialism and Politics (Palgrave MacMillan 2012). She received a National Endowment for Humanities Institute Grant in 2006 to study Venice the Jews and Italian Culture: Historical Eras and Cultural Representations; a Coolidge Fellow Grant from Union Theological School in 2003; and attended the Hess Seminar on Teaching Testimony and Holocaust at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2011. She has been a Board Member of the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Ethics since 2004.