[June 2019] Professor Santiago Slabodsky joins Arzu Merali to discuss this phrase often used in activism. Slabodsky argues that shared histories of co-racialisation mean that the ways of seeing both Muslims and Jews in the modern Western psyche should worry us all. Keywords: Muslims, Jews, Islamophobia, anti-semitism, decoloniality, genocide, Holocaust, genocide prevention
[June 2019] Professor Roberto D. Hernandez discusses the role of the concept of ‘newness’ and ‘modernity’ in eradicating cultures and peoples. Listen to the Genocide Memorial Day 2019 podcast below. In this discussion on historiography and the 1968 revolution, Professor Hernandez looks to the need to understand modernity alongside coloniality. In this
Chaired by IHRC’s Head of Research, Arzu Merali and co-editor of the book The Routledge International Handbook of Islamophobia, Dr Irene Zempi began the discussion on why this compilation of 32 chapters was put together. Dr Zempi said she and Imran Awan felt it was a necessary step. She said “people in the political
Professor Ramón Grosfoguel is a widely respected decolonial scholar. He joins Arzu Merali to analyse the four key genocides of modernity and how they impact us today*. Keywords: Genocide, ecocide, epistemicide, racism, gendercide, Islamophobia, colonialism, decoloniality, Holocaust, Nakba. Listen to the third podcast of 2019. These podcasts are produced for the Genocide
Sandew Hira is a writer, researcher, publisher and decolonial thinker and scholar. His seminal works on reparations inform this crucial discussion on how exactly reparations – in particular monetary reparations for enslavement can be calculated, and why they are so important. He joins Arzu Merali about his work and activism, with a
Lauren Booth joined us at the IHRC Bookshop to discuss her memoir ‘Finding Peace in the Holy Land’ on 4 October 2018. Buy Lauren’s book here, and other platforms. Watch the author evening video below.
Professor John Holmwood joined me at IHRC in 2018 to discuss his book on the so-called Trojan Horse affair entitled Countering Extremism in British Schools? The Truth About the Birmingham Trojan Horse Affair. .He and co-author Dr. Therese O’Toole argued the affair, that saw teachers, school governors and parents – mostly but
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
Veteran activist Michel Warschawski aka Mikado joined Arzu at the IHRC Bookshop to discuss his life and work. He spoke with Arzu* about his transformation from Zionist soldier to pro-Palestinian advocate and activist. Warschawski discusses his biography On the Border as well as his thinking regarding the future of Israel/Palestine given more
The event took a critical view of the humanitarian rhetoric around the intervention in Libya. Dr. Kamila Otman and Roshan Mohammed Salih overviewed the outcome of the NATO intervention in Libya in 2011 that brought down Muammar Ghadaffi. This is uncomfortable viewing at times as it provides a strong critique of humanitarian