Some notes on the arrest of the Israeli filmmaker and academic at the protest against the Israeli genocide on Friday 1st November 2024 under anti-terrorism laws. This is for my non-UK friends in particular. I wish I could say I am shocked or stunned. To do so would mean I still believe
It is time to stop blindly replicating previously failed attempts to leverage the Muslim vote in the UK, argues Arzu Merali. Listen to the audio or read the article below. I: Learning from the Past “…nations have no permanent friends and no permanent enemies, only permanent interests.”
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
The Times has reported a dossier of comments on social media and in lectures by Sheikh Jaffer Ladak, the resident alim at Baab ul-Ilm Centre in Leeds has been passed to West Yorkshire Police. Ladak’s comments cited by The Times, are not unusual or in the current moment even controversial. This piece
Some thoughts from Twitter posted on 2nd March 2024 regarding an opinion piece in The Guardian on Michael Gove. This article argued that despite appearance of courteousness and clam, Michael Gove was in fact someone who had ‘toxified’ the political culture of the Tories. The tweet threat is unrolled below, but as
As German far-right politicians attend a meeting at the British House of Parliament today, Arzu reflects on the crises of racism gripping Germany Today former Tory now independent MP, Andrew Bridgen hosts members of the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party from Germany at the Houses of Parliament. If the appellation ‘far-right’
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
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)
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
Chaired by IHRC’s Head of Research, Arzu Merali and co-editor of the book The Routledge International Handbook of Islamophobia, Dr Irene Zempi began the discussion on why this compilation of 32 chapters was put together. Dr Zempi said she and Imran Awan felt it was a necessary step. She said “people in the political
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