[28 Jan 2024]I was really honoured to be invited by Aligarh Muslim University Students’ Collective to speak on this issue and take questions. I am hoping to get a transcript up eventually. This event took place in December 2020.
The treatment of Muslims is the touchstone of contemporary European racism across its many nations and localities. We make a definitive case for two arguments in this book: firstly, the recognition of the accelerating and pervasive nature of Islamophobia in this region; and secondly, recognition that this process is being, can be,
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
The promise represented by the emergence of Muslim civil society activism in late 1980’s Britain has failed to translate into effective political agency. In fact, if anything, it has regressed under the weight of internal contradictions, powerful external opposition, and the absence of principled strategies. Arzu Merali explores how Muslims can get back
As the scandal over Islamophobia in the Conservative Party escalated in 2020, I joined Waqar Rizvi on Scope to discuss the matter. Watch Waqar Rizvi conferring with a panel of experts on recent International events in the SCOPE. Topics: 1. UK: Post-Brexit Economic Outlook 2. UK: Islamophobia in Conservative Party Guests: *
Edited by Arzu Merali and Faisal Bodi, The New Colonialism: the American Model of Human Rights presents nine contributions from scholar-activists looking at how human rights as theory and practice have been co-opted by the US as part of brutal, racist and colonial foreign and domestic policies. Topics under discussion include elucidations
Islamophobia has always needed to be understood as part of the deeper crisis of the political and social culture we live in* I have been swotting up on Jerusalem for my youngest’s A-Levels this month. I would rather abstractly debate whether the dark satanic mills of William Blake’s imagination are the factories of
Notes on Randa Abdel-Fattah’s ‘Islamophobia and Everyday Multiculturalism in Australia’ from Arzu Merali.* There is so much to recommend Randa Abdel- Fattah’s book, it is difficult to know where to begin. I also fear that, without a forensic chapter by chapter analysis, I will do an injustice and leave important aspects
Arzu Merali on Scope with Waqar Rizvi (episode 132) discussing the Burqa Ban in the Netherlands in particular and Europe in general (Indus News) Watch Waqar Rizvi conferring with a panel of experts on recent International events in the SCOPE. Topics: 1. Brexit: Irish Border Concerns 2. Burqa Ban In Europe
New paper from the Commission for Countering Extremism associates left-wing views with ‘violent extremism’ The document released by the UK Commission for Countering Extremism, titled “Violent extremist tactics and the ideology of the sectarian left” reads more like a textbook of sectarianism than an analysis of its ideas and methods. It is deeply alarming. Earlier this year,
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