Arzu looks at The Sunday Times’ TV critic Camilla Long’s most recent attack on hijab, praying at school and the rights of Muslim children in her column Given its proclivity for Brexit (and thus one assumes the proclivity of its readers similarly) it is odd to find appreciative readers of Camilla Long’s
Arzu argues that the normalisation of the TalkTV journalist’s behaviour in a recent interview should be too much even for institutionally racist media companies to stomach. The video of Julia Hartley-Brewer ‘interviewing’ Palestinian MP Mustafa Barghouti last week is doing the rounds. Rightly so. It is a shocking piece of invective,
Notes from 2023: I had the great privilege of interviewing Houria Bouteldja once more, this time abut her book, Whites, Jews and Us: Towards a Politics of Revolutionary Love in March 2018. The interview took place for IHRC, who stock the title in their fundraising bookshop here. I really, really love this
Arzu Merali outlines the urgent need for the Palestine solidarity movement to learn lessons from its fractured past It has been a traumatic and for some surprising week. The UK Home Secretary has labelled the peaceful and almost wholly – thus far – arrest free pro-Palestinian marches in (particularly, but not solely)
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)
A new volume in the DHMIR series looking at the increasingly narrower conception of citizenship when it comes to Muslims, in Germany.
IHRC launched Spinwatch’s report ‘Islamophobia and European Media, the role of the State as ‘Primary Definer’ by David Miller at the UN. I was one of the respondents. David Miller co-author and Director of Spinwatch – Arzu Merali, writer and former IHRC research director – Mustapha Jarjou, Gambian Association from Palermo
Arzu Merali presents her a summary of her findings on the UK as part of the Countering Islamophobia Toolkit at the European Parliament. Find the IHRC papers, as well as videos and photos of the launch of the Toolkit and Key National Messages organised by IHRC at the European Parliament here. The
Arzu Merali reflects on Serial’s podcast series of the infamous affair that resulted in a societal sea change for the worse against Muslims [substitute alternate teaser here].* Let me start with this. Serial is excellent and everyone needs to listen to it, even if, like me you were already very familiar with
I stood in at the last minute for Syed Mohammed Marandi at the IHRC & SACC 2021 Islamophobia Conference. Watch my presentation here. I was honoured to speak after Lee Jasper. The panel was entitled, ‘War and Law: Challenging the Violent State from Policing, Apartheid and Segregation to the Forever Wars’ Islamophobia