From Local Roots to Global Networks: Can Solidarity Be Built Across Difference?
In a conference space, difference becomes visible in subtle ways—accents, clothing, references, even the pace of speech. Participants arrive carrying their own worlds: histories, struggles, and ways of understanding faith and society. What appears, at first glance, as a shared platform is in fact a convergence of many distinct realities. ICAS 2026 will bring together Muslim women from diverse regions, each shaped by local contexts that cannot easily be translated into universal terms. The question is not whether these differences exist—they are inevitable—but whether they can become the basis of solidarity rather than fragmentation. The Challenge of Solidarity Solidarity is often invoked as an ideal, but its construction is far from simple. It requires more than sharedContinue Reading







