The hoops that Muslims in the UK jump through to be accepted by an openly hostile state are impossible. In trying to do so, we are simply reproducing the idea that we are not proper citizens, just blindly loyal subjects, argues Arzu. Read the article below or listen to it here.
Arzu chaired this event for IHRC and IHRC Bookshop, on Thursday 6 February, unpacking the latest book from Houria Bouteldja, ‘Rednecks and Barbarians Uniting the White and Racialized Working Class’ with the author. Details of the book below the video. You can buy it from the IHRC Bookshop here (all profits
In the third and final podcast, Arzu, Faisal and Massoud discuss the successes of 4th July, as well as the not so successful moments. Does the election of pro-Palestinian. independents herald a new dawn in (Muslim) political mobilisation or do we need to rethink the way we do politics in the UK
Watch and listen to the second special podcast looking at the UK General Elections and the possibility of a Muslim bloc vote with IHRC media officer and former journalist Faisal Bodi, former IHRC head of research and current co-editor of The Long View, Arzu Merali and IHRC Chair and veteran activist Massoud
Watch and listen to the first special podcast looking at the UK General Elections and the possibility of a Muslim bloc vote with IHRC media officer and former journalist Faisal Bodi, former IHRC head of research and current co-editor of The Long View, Arzu Merali and IHRC Chair and veteran activist Massoud
Notes from 2023: I had the great privilege of interviewing Houria Bouteldja once more, this time abut her book, Whites, Jews and Us: Towards a Politics of Revolutionary Love in March 2018. The interview took place for IHRC, who stock the title in their fundraising bookshop here. I really, really love this
Professor Olsi Yazeji, Professor Saeed A. Khan and Massoud Shadjareh join Arzu Merali to discuss the rise south and in particular China, the decline of the west. What are the possibilities and problems Muslim engagement with China, as nations, as disaporas, as minoritised people within its borders and as part of global(ised)
Imam Dawud Walid and Professor Saeed Khan join Arzu Merali to discuss their essays in The Long View magazine Volume 3: Issue 1, January 2021 Read their essays here.
The first in the Long View Conversations takes Ramon Grosfoguel’s essay on hybrid war against Iran and Venezuela as a starting point for a discussions on the use of sanctions and the impact they have on innocent populations. Professor Grosfoguel, Professor Saeed A. Khan and Sayyed Massoud Shadjareh join Arzu to discuss
In this series of podcasts, activist and thinker Sandew Hira of the Decolonial International Network Foundation talks with Arzu Merali of his experiences of trying to set up a Truth & Reconciliation project in Suriname to deal with the legacy of the 8 December 1982 killings. All four episodes now available here