On Wednesday 28th August 2013 IHRC hosted an author evening with Joe Glenton, ex-soldier, writer and film maker to discuss his book ‘Soldier Box’. Read more abut the event and book below the video. Text from the IHRC website. In his book Glenton reveals why he left the army, and the personal war
IHRC’s head of research Arzu Merali speaks to Sara in Egypt about her experience of the massacre that took place on 14 August. In a moving account Sara explains how she was shot by birdshot, and how the military cleared a hospital executing people in their wake. Listen to the audio below.
Houria Bouteldja was invited to the IHRC Bookshop to speak about decolonising France on 27th April 2013. I was able to chair that event and interview Houria. Watch the conversation here. At the time she was a spokesperson of the Party of the Indigenous of the Republic (PIR). PIR was the first
I chaired this evening for IHRC, in conversation with journalist Roshan Muhammad Salih on his latest film for Press TV ‘MI5, Spies, Intelligence Gathering, and the UK Muslim Community’ Roshan is an independent documentary maker and has made this documentary which looks at MI5 and spying in the Muslim Community. He shows
Arzu was interviewed on this issue for Islam & Life on Press TV.
Following the success of his poetry recitations at our Genocide Memorial Day this year, acclaimed Poet and Cultural Innovator Mark Gonzales came to the IHRC bookshop to meet with Arzu Merali in this exclusive interview. Mark Gonzales is a storyteller and innovator who places healing and imagination in the centre of all
Dr. Kwame Nimako author and co-author of over 30 books, reports and guidebooks on international relations joined IHRC on Wednesday 19 October 2011 to discuss his latest work ‘The Dutch Atlantic: Slavery, Abolition and Emancipation’ (co-written with Glenn Willemsen). Arzu chaired. The Dutch Atlantic provides an erudite history of Dutch slavery, revolts,
IHRC opened a bookshop after 14 years in existence in January 2011 to help raise funds for those projects deemed charitable under UK charities law. I was privileged to be the host of that event speaking with journalist and Brussels based author David Cronin about his book Europe’s Alliance with Israel. From