Some notes on these last few weeks from Arzu I was alerted to this short film by Revd Stephen Sizer of Peacemakers. Based on Zeina Azzam’s poem ‘Write my name’, it crushed me. I demand you watch it. I defy you not to weep. I will put a link and the
What, if anything, can be a revolutionary politics for minoritised people, especially Muslims in the UK? What can we actually do to fight for the end of the genocide? – asks Arzu Merali. Read the article below the audio. Listen to the audio on this page or on Youtube. Part III:
Arzu was invited to speak alongside Batool Subeiti and Syed Muhsin Abbas once more on Perspectives with Faiza Naqvi on Hidayat TV to discuss Eid in Palestine, the UK elections and more. Starting with the passing of Eid and the genocide in Palestine, the participants moved on to discuss the
The leading liberal author Naomi Klein has publicly called for an exodus of Jews from Zionism. This is momentous, particularly to those who remember her pro-Zionist interventions of yesteryear. Arzu discusses why, notwithstanding this welcome news, the movement for a better world needs to still hold those who upheld the old world
Arzu Merali on News Review (Press TV) talking about the crackdown on political activism against Muslims in Austria and the consequences that has for pro-Palestinian activism.* Watch the interview below the text. From Press TV: “A group calling itself „Students Against Genocide“ protested inside the University of Vienna, Austria, the biggest German-speaking
Many thanks to Islam Channel for inviting me to speak on the News about the ICJ ruling last week on whether Israel is conducting a genocide against the Palestinians. It is really heartening to be on a news program whether Muslim or not, that engages with issues such as genocide, epistemicide and
Arzu discusses the proscription of the avowedly non-violent group Hizb ut-Tahrir by the UK government and what it means for dissenting voices in the UK Today’s proscription of Hizb u-Tahrir under the Terrorism Act 2000 is a new low, even for the UK. I wrote on 7 January that the push towards
As the US and UK bomb Yemen on the 22nd anniversary of the opening of the Guantánamo Bay prison camp, Arzu reviews her thoughts from 2012 about the narratives of Islamophobia that facilitate this violence Yesterday was the anniversary of the opening of Camp X-Ray, the notorious US prison camp and
I first came across this poem, when it was put up on the wall of an office I worked at by (I am guessing) Demir Mahmutćehajić , and which followed us and Massoud Shadjareh and our other friends to Islamic Human Rights Commission in 1997. It is a powerful reminder of the resilience of
Arzu Merali on Press TV spoke about the war crimes being perpetrated by the Israeli regime in Gaza, the prospects for accountability and the new for new global institutions to seek redress. Watch the interview here.
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