The panel on tackling the police state from the 2018 Bandung of the North conference with Fred Hampton Jr., Arzu Merali, Amal Bentousi, Safa Chebbi, Andre-Yanne Parent, Nordine Saidi, Ibrahim Bechrouri, Redouane Ikil and Said Bouamama. This panel (mainly in French) includes a presentation from IHRC’s Arzu Merali (in English).
IHRC held its annual Islamophobia Conference on Sunday, 10 December 2017 on ‘The Rise of Nativism’. Here, IHRC co-founder Arzu Merali outlines the topic, ”Whose nation is it anyway?” More details below the video. Text from the IHRC website. IHRC and SACC held their annual Islamophobia Conferences on 8 (Edinburgh) and 10
From the 2016 IHRC Islamophobia Conference, The Environment of Hate and the Police State. IHRC and SACC held the third annual Islamophobia Conference entitled The Environment of Hate and the Police State on Saturday 3 December in Edinburgh with a parallel conference held in London at the P21 Gallery on Saturday 10 December. Find
In the passing of John Berger, Muslims have missed the chance to mourn a truly remarkable thinker, writes Arzu Merali. I have been fairly unmoved this last ‘year’ at the barrage of celebrity deaths. The exception being a small tear shed for Alan Rickman whom most know as Severus Snape in the
I spoke at the SACC and IHRC conference in Edinburgh in 2016 about how education, the legal system and the Prevent / Counter-terrorism regime coalesce to create an environment of hate that facilitates the operation of a de facto Police State. In this state citizens are either living in fear and self-censorship,
Arzu Merali signed this letter, published in The Independent. The full list below is courtesy of The Free Speech on Israel website. The letter protested the scurrilous, Zionist led attacks on then NUS president Malia Bouattia. We, the undersigned, unequivocally support Malia Bouattia, the current NUS president and applaud her impeccable
Director Sukant Chandan joined IHRC on the 25th August 2016 to discuss his newest documentary ‘Insight to riot’. Insight to Riot is a documentary film that captures the inspiring but also at times very sad and traumatic stories of Black and poor people reacting and responding and navigating a growing racist, oppressive
Presented by Arzu Merali at the final plenary of the Prevent, Islamophobia and Civil Liberties national conference in June 2016. In it Arzu looks at how the narratives that fuel Islamophobic street level violence and establishment attacks on Muslims are concretised by the narratives of Prevent. She argues that the capture of
This was presented at the second institutional Islamophobia conference held in London and Edinburgh by IHRC and SACC in December 2015. The 2015 London Islamophobia Conference was entitled Islamophobia: The Changing Face of Racism. IHRC and Scotland against Criminalising Communities (SACC) co-organised a London and an Edinburgh event this year. This year the
Arzu spoke at the launch of the research authored by herself and Professor Saied R. Ameli on hate against Muslims in the UK. From the IHRC website: IHRC launched its second UK-wide study, ‘Environment of Hate: The New Normal for Muslims in the UK’. It is an indispensable work which draws