--- title: "2 Deepa Kumar Quotes - Famous Middle East specialist (Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire)" description: "Deepa Kumar is an Indian American scholar and activist. She is a professor of Journalism and Media Studies at Rutgers University." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b008/author-deepa-kumar-28461.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Deepa Kumar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b008/author-deepa-kumar-28461.jpg) # Deepa Kumar (1968) Middle East Specialist United States **2** quotes in **15** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Deepa Kumar is a Middle East specialist from the United States, best known for *Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire*. ## Quick Facts About Deepa Kumar Born January 1, 1968 Nationality United States Profession Middle East Specialist Notable works Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire ## About Deepa Kumar Deepa Kumar is an Indian American scholar and activist. She is a professor of Journalism and Media Studies at Rutgers University. Kumar has been referred to by the Media Education Foundation as “one of the nation’s foremost scholars on Islamophobia" and by The New York Times as "a world-renowned scholar of Islamophobia and race." She is a leader in the Rutgers faculty union, the AAUP-AFT. When she was president, the union fought for gender and race equity, and in 2019 won a contract that AFT president, Randi Weingarten, said “will inspire higher education professionals across \[the\] country to fight and win their own battles to improve their lives – and the lives of others – in the streets and at the bargaining table.” ## Quotes by Deepa Kumar > [“The Sufi Islam practiced in northern India is quite different from the Shi'a Islam practiced in Lebannon, which in turn is different…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/deepa-kumar/the-sufi-islam-practiced-in-northern-india-is-quite-different-from/) [Deepa Kumar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/deepa-kumar/) [Islam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/islam/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5fc/deepa-kumar-107833_deepa-kumar_the-sufi-islam-practiced-in-northern-ind_1019798.jpg) > [Being a mother of two little girls, it was an absolute nightmare for me to teach them about sexual abuse.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/deepa-kumar/being-a-mother-of-two-little-girls-it-was-an-absolute-nightmare-for/) [Deepa Kumar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/deepa-kumar/) [Absolutes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/absolutes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/655/deepa-kumar-107833_absolutes_being-a-mother-of-two-little-girls-it-wa_1957724.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/deepa-kumar/#itemlist", "name": "Deepa Kumar Quotes", "numberOfItems": 2, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“The Sufi Islam practiced in northern India is quite different from the Shi'a Islam practiced in Lebannon, which in turn is different from the Sunni Islam practiced in Pakistan. 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