Maryam Kashani, Associate Professor of Gender & Women's Studies and Asian American Studies

From the Black Power movement and state surveillance to Silicon Valley and gentrification, Medina by the Bay examines how multiracial Muslim communities in the San Francisco Bay Area survive and flourish within and against racial capitalist, carceral, and imperial logics. Weaving expansive histories, peoples, and geographies together in an ethnographic screenplay of cinematic scenes, Kashani demonstrates how sociopolitical forces and geopolitical agendas shape Muslim ways of knowing and being.