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,
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
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 spoke at the panel event organised by the Non-Aligned Movement at UNESCO, 10 June 2011 in Paris, France. The panel was entitled ‘The role of the Media in Promoting Intercultural Dialogue’. She presented her own thoughts, as well as the findings of the volume ‘The British Media and Muslim Representation:
Arzu Merali reviews the DVD, ‘Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People’, for Palestine Internationalist, DVD, 50 mins, Media Education Foundation, ISBN: 1-932869-00-X* Abstract: A review of the documentary based on the book of the same name which meticulously examines the portrayal of Arabs in some 750 movies from Hollywood’s earliest
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