Shadi Hamid, senior fellow in the Project on U.S. Relations with the Islamic World in the Center for Middle East Policy and author of the new book Islamic Exceptionalism: How the Struggle Over Islam is Reshaping the World, discusses his own personal experience as an American Muslim, and talks about Islam in the context of modern America and the world.

Also in this episode Constanze Stelzenmueller, Robert Bosch Senior Fellow in the Center on the United States and Europe, discusses refugee integration in Germany.  

Links

Project on U.S. Relations with the Islamic World<http://www.brookings.edu/about/projects/islamic-world>

Islamic Exceptionalism: How the Struggle Over Islam Is Reshaping the World <https://www.amazon.com/Islamic-Exceptionalism-Struggle-Islam-Reshaping/dp/1250061016>

 "Temptations of Power: Islamists and Illiberal Democracy in a New Middle East <http://www.amazon.com/Temptations-Power-Islamists-Illiberal-Democracy/dp/0199314055/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1386096396&sr=1-4&keywords=temptations+of+power>"

Trump's proposed ban on Muslims <http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/markaz/posts/2016/06/18-trump-banning-muslims-hamid>

Is Islam "exceptional"? <http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/markaz/posts/2016/06/08-is-islam-exceptional-hamid>  

Thanks to audio engineer and producer Zack Kulzer, with editing help from Mark Hoelscher, plus thanks to Carisa Nietsche, Bill Finan, Jessica Pavone, Eric Abalahin, Rebecca Viser, and our intern Sara Abdel-Rahim.

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