Khaled Beydoun
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Mail code: 9520Campus: Dtphx
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Professor Khaled A. Beydoun is an Associate Professor Law at the Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law. He joined ASU in 2023, and also serves as a Scholar-in-Residence at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University. Professor Beydoun is author of the critically acclaimed book American Islamophobia: Understanding the Roots and Rise of Fear, co-editor of Islamophobia and the Law – published by University of Cambridge Press, and author of The New Crusades: Islamophobia and the Global War on Muslims.
Professor Beydoun's research examines the First Amendment, race, national security, and their intersections. His academic work has been featured in top academic journals, including the UCLA Law Review, Northwestern Law Review, the California Law Review, the Minnesota Law Review, the Harvard Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Law Review, and the Harvard Law Review Forum. His insights have been featured in The New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN, the BBC, and ESPN. Professor Beydoun served on the US Commission for Civil Rights for three years and earned a coveted Open Society Foundations Equality Fellowship. He has been named one of the 500 Most Influential Muslims of the World, and he received the Frederick Douglass Educator Award. In 2021, Professor Beydoun was named “Extraordinary Professor” by the University of Western Cape in South Africa, and he joined the Desmond Tutu Centre for Religion and Social Justice as an honorary faculty member that very year.
In recent years, he has emerged as a leading voice on Arab, Middle Eastern and Muslim identity on the Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity (DIE) space, holding trainings at Fortune 100 companies including Apple, Meta, Nike, Google, and many more. He is widely regarded as one of the leading experts on Islamophobia globally.
Professor Beydoun in a native of Detroit, Michigan, and holds degrees from the University of Michigan, the University of Toronto, UCLA, and Harvard.
M.Ed., Harvard University
LLM, University of Toronto Faculty of Law
J.D., UCLA School of Law
A.B, University of Michigan
Constitutional Law, First Amendment, Religion, National Security, Islamophobia, Policing, Surveillance, Law & Tech
Law Review Articles
Unveiling, 111 California Law Review 465 (2023)
On Terrorists and Freedom Fighters, 136 Harvard Law Review Forum 1 (2022)
The Great Replacement: White Supremacist Terrorism and the Counterterror Establishment, 50 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 69 (2023)
The New State of Surveillance: Societies of Subjugation, 79 Washington & Lee Law Review 769 (2022)
On Sacred Land, 105 Minnesota Law Review 1802 (2021)
Faith In Whiteness: Free Exercise of Religion As Racial Expression, 105 Iowa Law Review 1475 (2020)
Fear of a Black & Brown Internet: Policing Online Activism, 100 Boston U. Law Review 1153 (w/ Sahar Aziz, 2020)
Lone Wolf Terrorism: Types, Stripes and Double Standards, 112 Northwestern Univ. Law Review 1213 (2018)
Acting Muslim, 53 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 1 (2018)
Reverse Passing, 64 UCLA Law Review 282 (w/ Erika Wilson, 2017)
Between Indigence, Islamophobia and Erasure, 104 California Law Review 1463 (2016)
“Muslim Bans” and the (Re)Making of Political Islamophobia, Univ. of Illinois Law Review 1756 (2017)
Bisecting American Islam: Divide, Conquer, and Counter-Radicalization, 69 Hastings Law Journal 429 (2017)
Beyond the Paris Attacks: Unveiling the War Within French Counterterror Policy, 65 American Univ. Law Review 1273 (2016)
America, Islam, and Constitutionalism: Muslim American Poverty and the Mounting Police State, 31 Journal of Law & Religion 279 (2016)
Boxed In: Reclassification of Arab Americans on the U.S. Census As Progress or Peril? 47 Loyola Univ. Chicago Law Journal 101 (2016)
Islam Incarcerated: Religious Accommodation of Muslim Prisoners Before Holt v. Hobbs, 84 Univ. of Cincinnati Law Review 99 (2016)
Antebellum Islam, 58 Howard Law Journal 141 (2015)
Between Muslim and White: The Legal Construction of Arab American Identity, 69 NYU Annual Survey of American Law 29 (2013)
Without Color of Law: The Losing Race Against Colorblindness in Michigan, 12 Michigan Journal of Race & Law 465 (2007)
The Trafficking of Domestic Workers Into Lebanon, 24 Berkeley Journal of Int’l Law 1009 (2006)
Books and Book Chapters
The New Crusades: Islamophobia and the Global War on Muslims, Univ. of California Press (monograph, March 2023)
The Arc of American Islamophobia: From Early History Through the Present, in A Field Guide to White Supremacy, Univ. of California Press (2022)
Islamophobia and the Law, Univ. of Cambridge Press (co-edited by Cyra Chaudhury, 2020)
American Islamophobia: Understanding the Roots and Rise of Fear, Univ. of California Press (monograph, 2018)
Courses
2025 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| LAW 791 | Seminar |
| LAW 665 | Race and the Law |
2024 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| LAW 791 | Seminar |
| LAW 665 | Race and the Law |