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
Arzu Merali of IHRC reflects on the recent memorialisation of Srebrenica and the loss of its historical context. People born in the late ‘80s onwards, of course, do not remember. Who expects them to? Yet, it wouldn’t be unreasonable that the message of this disaster, rather catastrophe, of ginormous proportions, would be
Arzu Merali reflects on the failures to remember the genocide in Bosnia, or learn the lessons of the genocide. People born in the late ‘80s onwards, of course, do not remember. Who expects them to? Yet, it wouldn’t be unreasonable that the message of this disaster, rather catastrophe, of ginormous proportions, would
Arzu Merali joins Sultana Pravin and Umm Taqi on Islam Channel to discuss the Israeli onslaught on Gaza in December 2008 – January 2009. Photo from Physicians for Human Rights, CC BY 2.0 DEED
Erasure of Muslims in Bulgaria – their role in its history and culture as well as their indigeneity – is slow process of genocide overlooked by the rest of world. Arzu Merali reports from the Bulgarian capital Sofia*. Mt. Vitusha gazed magnificently back at me, as I looked at Sofia from
Written in 1996. Currently published also on the IHRC website. “How should ye not fight for the cause of Allah and of the oppressed among men and of the women and the children who are crying: Our Lord! Bring forth from this town of which the people are oppressors! Oh give us