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
The immediate aftermath of 9/11 – Policies, legislations, infrastructures. Conversation with Arun Kundnani and Arzu Merali moderated by Asim Qureshi Organised by The Polis Project
Professor Hakimeh Saghaye-Biria joins Arzu Merali to discuss the ways her book ‘Political Islamolphobia’ that colonialism past and present has socially engineered the emotional and cultural expectations of those it has colonised. Looking at the situation now, she argues that the tropes and social engineering agendas of ‘Political Islamophobia’ have been generated
Saeed Khan joins Arzu Merali to discuss the view of genocide in the USA, its amnesia, its interventions and the work of civil society activists to bring action and reparations. Keywords: genocide; genocide memorial day; USA; Armenian genocide; Holocaust; Bosnia; Native American genocide
Arzu interviewed signer, songwriter, activist and filmmaker Pravini about her film The Uprising. The Uprising tells the story of resistance against racism in Europe and includes commentary and experiences from academics and activists. The Dutch-Indian singer/songwriter Pravini Baboeram offers a decolonial perspective on the anti-racism movement in the Netherlands, UK and France. She not
During the first COVID lockdown in the UK in 2020, I had the opportunity to interview children’s author Kosser Abdul-Aziz whose book ‘Tales of Mini Maryam’ is published by IHRC Press. This interview was recorded for IHRCTv and broadcast in July 2020. One of the great joys of being an editor is
Arzu Merali (Head of Research at IHRC) chaired an author evening with Katy Sian (Lecturer in Sociology at the University of York) on Wednesday, 28 August 2019. Text from IHRC Website: The discussion began with Arzu asking about reactions to Katy’s book, Navigating Institutional Racism in British Universities. Katy expressed her shock