BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Telerik Inc.//Sitefinity CMS 15.1//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Eastern Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:Eastern Standard Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250301T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:Eastern Daylight Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Please join the Moynihan Institute’s South Asia Center for a ta lk by \; Mohammad Ebad Athar (Ph.D. candidate\, history) and Nausheen Husain (assistant professor\, journalism).In the aftermath of Sept. 11\, 2 001\, the FBI investigated a 23-year-old Pakistani man\, Mohammad Salman H amdani\, who was declared missing at the site of the attack. As part of th eir investigation\, FBI and CIA officials visited Hamdani’s home in Queens where they questioned his parents about his whereabouts and his backgroun d. At the conclusion of the investigation\, Hamdani was found to be innoce nt\, given full police honors at his funeral\, and was declared a hero by mayor Mike Bloomberg. Hamdani is cited in the Patriot Act as someone who “ acted heroically.” \;In analyzing the news coverage of Hamdani\, Athar and Husain argue that Hamdani’s case is representative of elite news medi a’s unquestioning acceptance of law enforcement’s framing of South Asian\, Arab\, and Muslim people as a securitized population throughout the ongoi ng War on Terror. They connect Hamdani’s story to coverage of more recent cases of entrapment or imperfect entrapment of Muslim men\, Yassin Aref an d Adel Daoud\, by the FBI in sting operations\, using data-driven news aud its as our methodology. The work of Athar and Husain is supported by the L ender Center for Social Justice.Mohammad Ebad Athar is a Ph.D. candidate i n history at Syracuse University and is a graduate fellow at the Lender Ce nter for Social Justice working on the impact of media coverage of Muslims during the War on Terror. His dissertation research examines the connecti ons 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 h ave to do with civil rights and incarceration. She is also an assistant pr ofessor of journalism and current faculty fellow at the Lender Center for Social Justice at Syracuse University\, where her research is focused on a genda-setting news framing techniques of those targeted by War on Terror p olicies. She has published work in The Nation\, The Huffington Post\, The Chicago Tribune\, and Oakland North. DTEND:20240927T210000Z DTSTAMP:20260312T173532Z DTSTART:20240927T193000Z LOCATION:United States SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Creating Dangerous Muslims during the ‘War on Terror’ UID:RFCALITEM639089193326514467 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
Please join the Moynihan Institute’s Sout h Asia Center for a talk by \; Mohammad Ebad Athar (Ph.D. candidate\, history) and Nausheen Husain (assistant professor\, journalism).

In the aftermath of Sept. 11\, 2001\, the FBI investigated a 23-year-old Pakistani man\, Mohammad Salman Hamdani\, who was declared missing at the site of the attack. As part of their investigation\, FBI an d CIA officials visited Hamdani’s home in Queens where they questioned his parents about his whereabouts and his background. At the conclusion of th e investigation\, Hamdani was found to be innocent\, given full police hon ors at his funeral\, and was declared a hero by mayor Mike Bloomberg. Hamd ani is cited in the Patriot Act as someone who “acted heroically.” \;< /div>

In analyzing the news coverage of Hamdani\, Athar and Husain argue that Hamdani’s case is representative of elite news medi a’s unquestioning acceptance of law enforcement’s framing of South Asian\, Arab\, and Muslim people as a securitized population throughout the ongoi ng War on Terror. They connect Hamdani’s story to coverage of more recent cases of entrapment or imperfect entrapment of Muslim men\, Yassin Aref an d Adel Daoud\, by the FBI in sting operations\, using data-driven news aud its as our methodology. The work of Athar and Husain is supported by the L ender Center for Social Justice.

Mohammad Ebad Athar is a Ph.D. candidate in history a t Syracuse University and is a graduate fellow at the Lender Center for So cial 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 Persia n Gulf during the ongoing Global War on Terror.

Nausheen Husain is a r eporter who investigates aspects of the ongoing War on Terror that have to do with civil rights and incarceration. She is also an assistant professo r 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 policie s. She has published work in The Nation\, The Huffington Post\, The Chicag o Tribune\, and Oakland North.

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