Ariela Marcus-Sells

Professor of Religious Studies at Elon University. Religion, Magic, Islam, and Africa. Aikido practitioner. Dog lover. Sci-fi fan. Parent.

[Angie Thomas @angiecthomas]

I present to you: Fine Art

[Huda Fakhreddine | هدى فخر الدين @FakhreddineHuda]

THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF ARABIC POETRY, forthcoming in December! Co-editing this volume with Suzanne Stetkevych was an honor and a joy! All the gratitude to our brilliant contributors (and our blind reviewers).

[Jon Boeckenstedt @JonBoeckenstedt]

If you read this post, and/or share this link, you could help an underserved student get to college. Really.

#EMTalk

https://t.co/BCIbfjxey1

[Jon Boeckenstedt @JonBoeckenstedt]

As I've said before, maybe "elite" really just means "an absence of poor people." #EMTalk

[Mark Hamill @MarkHamill]

Named after this dead bird's eye.

[☆ ‧dreamboy··‧̩̥˟͙冬˟͙‧̩̥l @LilNasX]

i appreciate elon renaming the app after me but this is honestly overwhelming

[Caroline Spencer @cclaytonr]

Med Deli. #chapelhill. 😭😭😭😭😭

[Ariela Marcus-Sells @DrAriela]

A new Turkish drama about Rumi!! 👀👀

[darryl li @dcli]

Congratulations to all those who struggled to abolish cash bail in Illinois

[Sophia Nguyen @sophiah_n]

In a move that shocked its organizing partners, the Smithsonian canceled the Asian American Literature Festival, scheduled to take place in just a few weeks, "due to unforseen circumstances." I asked them why: https://t.co/eYgLTdu5uL

[Jonathan B. Field (he/him) @ThatJBF]

I know they say the devil is busy but a 4-4 with four different preps?

[Ariela Marcus-Sells @DrAriela]

@RachelSchine The best thing I have read on it (and which I assign to students) is the essay on “tribe” in Okot p’Bitek’s “Decolonizing African Religions.”

[Ariela Marcus-Sells @DrAriela]

We have made so many wonderful new networks of friends and colleagues, who have shared with us different ways of being in the world. We will carry them with us as we try to hold fast to the lessons they taught us.

[Ariela Marcus-Sells @DrAriela]

It has been an incomparable joy to spend the last five months working with @AnneKBang1 and the rest of the MPrinT research team at the University of Bergen. I will deeply miss their company and conversation as I leave tomorrow to return to the United States.

[Ariela Marcus-Sells @DrAriela]

Recently, Dr. Bang interviewed me about the intersection between the categories of religion, science, and magic, Islamic knowledge systems, and the challenges of cataloguing. You can check out our conversation here:

https://t.co/ZDefAz6BFo

[Ariela Marcus-Sells @DrAriela]

@MaslamaQ @UvA_Humanities Many congratulations! So well deserved!!

[Ariela Marcus-Sells @DrAriela]

@EdwardECurtisIV @wfyi @IUNewsroom @ArabAmericanMus @adc @Arab_America @IUPUI @iahiindy @INHumanities @MwHWG @WFYINews Holy crap!! 😱 that’s… AMAZING

[Ariela Marcus-Sells @DrAriela]

@JN_Hendrickson @Harvard_Press @SHARIAsource It was, truly, a pleasure

[Ariela Marcus-Sells @DrAriela]

My review of @JN_Hendrickson’s masterful ‘Leaving Iberia’ was just published in JAAR.

https://t.co/2ehsgkz5Qp

[Ariela Marcus-Sells @DrAriela]

@flodin_ali @sohaibology Congratulations Doctor!!