Arzu reflects on the month of January thus far, including the current ceasefire in the Israeli genocide against the Palestinians, the LA wildfires, and Holocaust Memorial. It is midway through January, -ish. People are celebrating the ceasefire in Gaza. It is a difficult moment. Of course, any stay in the bloodletting
This piece from Arzu is a prelude to her piece ‘Have a Very Muslim Christmas?’ from 2020. In this she reflects on Muslim trends for ‘celebrating’ Christmas. “Peace be upon me the day I was born and the day I will die, and the day I will be raised up alive.”
Arzu reflects on past work on Islamophobia in the media and the need to understand how it crosscuts and intersects with normalised anti-Muslim hatred across legal, political and educational settings. Another report on Islamophobia in the media is being launched this week by the Muslim Council of Britain, looking specifically at
The price of ‘victory’ in Syria has come at the expense of a liberated Palestine, Islamic resistance and the rising new world, argues Arzu. As the shills for the Syrian ‘rebels’ rejoice from London to Tel Aviv, it is clear that any victory in Syria has come at the price of the
November in the UK has been designated Islamophobia Awareness Month. Arzu gives some thoughts on what seriously tackling Islamophobia requires. It is coming to the end of the Julian year and my review of past works is barely started. As I have written on Islamophobia for the best part of three
Some notes on the arrest of the Israeli filmmaker and academic at the protest against the Israeli genocide on Friday 1st November 2024 under anti-terrorism laws. This is for my non-UK friends in particular. I wish I could say I am shocked or stunned. To do so would mean I still believe
Arzu reflects on the US Presidential elections, and the need for system change. There is too much agonising over the US elections and the victory of Donald Trump today. Liberals in the US, at least on social media, have little or no ability, it seems, to self-reflect. Accusations abound about the stupidity
Some thoughts from this week’s monumental events involving Iran’s response to “Israel”, and how those showing solidarity need to be wary of reproducing Zionist narratives. Post below the audio. It needs to be acknowledged now, that the two Operations ‘True Promise’ from the Islamic Republic of Iran launched in response to attacks
My thoughts on the assassination of Syed Nasrallah, originally written 30 September. I didn’t publish them until now (22 October) for a variety of reasons explained in the note[i]. “But do not think of those who have been killed in the One and Only God’s cause as dead. No, they are
Some notes on these last few weeks from Arzu I was alerted to this short film by Revd Stephen Sizer of Peacemakers. Based on Zeina Azzam’s poem ‘Write my name’, it crushed me. I demand you watch it. I defy you not to weep. I will put a link and the
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