On 14th July 2026, IHRC Bookshop & Gallery hosted the authors of ‘Every Day and Every Land: Poems on the Tragedy of Karbala’. The evening saw readings from the book, discussions on what inspired the poets and the connections they make with the struggles for justice today. Listen to Narkis Khan, Zainab
Scheduled for Ashura 2026. Written Muharram 2009. Read below the video. The Rising I am Hussain and I have risen so too Qasim, Abbas and Hur and Zainab, dear Zainab bears witness to our deaths again in preference to life with humiliation. And amongst her tears and those
Arzu recalls the response of friends and people she met in Bosnia the day after the UK’s Brexit Referendum. In the result to leave the European Union, and the campaign that led up to they saw their own experiences before the Bosnian war unleashed in the British public space. Ten years on,
Arzu argues that we need to join the dots and realise that the narratives of the UK and the west more broadly as ‘liberal’ ‘tolerant’ and ‘just’ are fictions that we have internalised. This week’s sentencing of the Filton Four, and the decision by the Court of Appeal to uphold the proscription
In this emotional polemic, Arzu Merali looks at the possibilities of a better world as a result of the US war on Iran and its allies regardless of immediate outcomes. The world she argues, will never be the same again. Listen below, or read under the video. What does the near victory
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