I have renamed my YouTube channel Islamic Arts & Humanities and I am excited about using it as my main patform for public teaching as well as sharing poetry and Sufi chanting.

Here are some new videos I have posted (a chanted poem and a short talk:

It has taken me two years to get fully into the flow as Assistant Professort of Humanities and Social Sciences, at Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University. While it has been a pleasure getting used to my life with my family in Saudi Arabia, it has also kept me extremely busy. That is why I have not been posting here as often as I should. Hopefully, this will change now (in sha Allah)! Anyway, here is an update:

New academic publications:

A review of the following book by Walaa Quisay: Neotraditionalism in Islam in the West: Orthodoxy, Spirituality and Politicshttps://muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/article/939072/pdf
 An encyclopedia article entitled "Sufi Groups in North America: A History," published in The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion.
 https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780199340378.013.1153

I will make another post about my updated Youtube page...