Lineker, by expressing outrage at the Israeli treatment of Palestinian children, has empowered the narrative of the oppressed – and inevitably brought wrath on himself* The line between Palestine and North London is not such a very long one. There is a moment early in the film, Those Glory Glory Days, when sports
The ten key narratives of Islamophobia identified in the UK are key to creating an anti-Muslim environment. The narratives are fuelled by political, media and law enforcement institutions each feeding off each other. Arzu Merali argues that the impact serves to expel Muslims from the legal and political space and strikes to
Despite being a momentous achievement in film, Arzu Merali argues that Christopher Nolan’s ‘Dunkirk’ pushes problematic narratives. It is the film that everyone will have a take home image from. It is not merely a spectacle. Dunkirk is an experience. My take home moment is not a shot or a scene but
In the years Bowen has been ‘our man’, how is it that we still talk about the ‘Middle East’? Whose ‘Middle’ or ‘East’ is it? As with him, it is not ‘ours’* Like Maggie O’Kane’s impassioned plea over the phone from a besieged Sarajevo as a stunned BBC news anchor looked at
Arzu Merali is interviewed by SISUMMA. Keywords: Deocoloniality, Islamophobia, counter-narratives, Palestine, media, social media, demonisation Arzu Merali, activist and co-founder of the Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC) based in the UK came to Granada to participate in the International Conference ISLAMOPHOBIA: ROOTS, DISCOURSES AND COUNTER-NARRATIVES FROM A DECOLONIAL PERSPECTIVE that
From the 2016 IHRC Islamophobia Conference, The Environment of Hate and the Police State. IHRC and SACC held the third annual Islamophobia Conference entitled The Environment of Hate and the Police State on Saturday 3 December in Edinburgh with a parallel conference held in London at the P21 Gallery on Saturday 10 December. Find
Arzu overviews events relating to Islamophobia in the UK in 2016 for SETA. Read the report (p550 onwards) here. Executive Summary The UK faced a difficult year, marked by what many perceived as a downward turn in race relations, seeing in particular, a demonstrable rise in Islamophobia.The general election in May saw
Arzu Merali argues that years of reports have done little but push the UK further towards Victorian victim shaming and ever widening socio-economic divides* There was that time Louise Casey did her report into homelessness. Remember that? Maybe not. Or her foray into crime and punishment? Or troubled families or anti-social behaviour? Maybe, or maybe not still,
I spoke at the SACC and IHRC conference in Edinburgh in 2016 about how education, the legal system and the Prevent / Counter-terrorism regime coalesce to create an environment of hate that facilitates the operation of a de facto Police State. In this state citizens are either living in fear and self-censorship,
Arzu Merali signed this letter, published in The Independent. The full list below is courtesy of The Free Speech on Israel website. The letter protested the scurrilous, Zionist led attacks on then NUS president Malia Bouattia. We, the undersigned, unequivocally support Malia Bouattia, the current NUS president and applaud her impeccable
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