Panel on “Producing Islamophobia and Fomenting Fear”. April 21,22 UC Berkeley Thomas Cincotta, Public Research Associates Max Blumenthal, the Nation Institute Arzu Merali is Director of Research for the Islamic Human Rights Commission (UK) Moderator: Wajahat Ali, Research and Writer at Center for American Progress. Part of the 2021 conference at UC
IHRC opened a bookshop after 14 years in existence in January 2011 to help raise funds for those projects deemed charitable under UK charities law. I was privileged to be the host of that event speaking with journalist and Brussels based author David Cronin about his book Europe’s Alliance with Israel. From
Arzu Merali spoke at the panel event organised by the Non-Aligned Movement at UNESCO, 10 June 2011 in Paris, France. The panel was entitled ‘The role of the Media in Promoting Intercultural Dialogue’. She presented her own thoughts, as well as the findings of the volume ‘The British Media and Muslim Representation:
Arzu Merali joined Sultanah Parvin (Hizb ut-Tahrir), and Umm Taqi (in Gaza) discuss the Muslim response to the Gaza attacks. This program aired live on Islam Channel during the Israeli Operation Cast Lead against the Palestinians in Gaza, from December 2008 to January 2009. The broadcast date is estimated. Video: Nahda Productions
Jack Straw’s (the former UK Home and Foreign Secretary) comments on the ‘veil’ opened a debate that many in the mainstream thought was overdue. [note from December 2023]The Muslim woman’s dress, most noticeably the face veil (nikab) is seen by many as a symbol of oppression and separateness. Straw fomented these ideas
Funded by the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust, the British Muslims’ Expectations of the Government (BMEG) project saw IHRC deliver sophisticated research based on quantitative and qualitative research on the expectations that Muslims in the UK had of the government. The six reports published looked at: citizenship, discrimination, education and schools, hijab, law
Erasure of Muslims in Bulgaria – their role in its history and culture as well as their indigeneity – is slow process of genocide overlooked by the rest of world. Arzu Merali reports from the Bulgarian capital Sofia*. Mt. Vitusha gazed magnificently back at me, as I looked at Sofia from