Islamophobia Research & Documentation ⎪ IRDProject

US liberal Islamophobia is rising – & more insidious than rightwing bigotry

Khaled Beydoun - May 27, 2018

What the Facebook Hearings Mean For Surveillance, Data Privacy, & Islamophobia

Maxwell Leung - May 21, 2018

Professor Tariq Ramadan & France’s Islamophobia

Hatem Bazian - April 16, 2018

Trump, the White House, & the den of Islamophobes

Hatem Bazian - April 9, 2018

Islamophobia: Toward a Legal Definition & Framework

Khaled Beydoun - February 12, 2018

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Professor Tariq Ramadan & France’s Islamophobia

Articles Hatem Bazian - April 16, 2018

"Professor Tariq Ramadan & France's Islamophobia" Professor Tariq Ramadan's case and the solitary confinement he faces in a French prison sheds some light on the...

Trump, the White House, & the den of Islamophobes

Articles Hatem Bazian - April 9, 2018

"Trump, the White House, & the den of Islamophobes" While growing up, reading the adventures of Ali Baba provided steady stimuli for my imagination and...

Disenfranchising the Palestinians

Articles Hatem Bazian - October 28, 2017

"Disenfranchising the Palestinians" On Nov. 2, 2017, Palestinians mark the hundred-year anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, a letter from British foreign secretary Lord Arthur James...

ISLAMOPHOBIA CONFERENCE, BERKELEY

Call for Papers

Islamophobia Conference, Berkeley 2018 |April 27-29

CRG’s IRDP at the University of California, Berkeley & Centre for Ethnicity and Racism Studies at the University of Leeds, UK

The theme for the 9th annual International Islamophobia Conference is framed by a critical article written by Professor S. Sayyid and Abdoolkarim Vakil (Article: Reports of Islamophobia 1997 & 2017) on the occasion of Runnymede Trust publishing, “Islamophobia: Still a Challenge for us all”.

Call for Papers

Critical Muslim Studies Conference, Granada 2018 | June 23-24

Towards A Decolonial History of the South: Beyond Utopianism and Orientalism

The Granada Summer School in cooperation with [UC Berkeley Ethnic Studies Department, CERS, Iqbal Centre, and IRDP] invites papers across existing disciplinary boundaries to contribute towards a prolegomenon to decolonial world history. We welcome papers that do more than just critique and help flesh what an alternative to the Eurocentric production of knowledge.

Paper proposals should consist of a paper title and 300-word abstract and a one paragraph bio for the program if the paper is accepted. Please send these to the attention of Professors Ramon Grosfoguel, Salman Sayyid and Hatem Bazian.

NEW ISC’s Islamophobia Reporting Toolkit

Toolkit

FEATURED BOOK ON ISLAMOPHOBIA

Covering Islam

Edward Said

In this classic work, now updated, the author of Culture and Imperialism reveals the hidden agendas and distortions of fact that underlie even the most “objective” coverage of the Islamic world.

From the Iranian hostage crisis through the Gulf War and the bombing of the World Trade Center, the American news media have portrayed “Islam” as a monolithic entity, synonymous with terrorism and religious hysteria. At the same time, Islamic countries use “Islam” to justify unrepresentative and often repressive regimes. Combining political commentary with literary criticism, Covering Islam continues Edward Said’s lifelong investigation of the ways in which language not only describes but also defines political reality.

Epistemic Islamophobia & Colonial Social Sciences

Ramon Grosfoguel

This article explores how epistemic racism shapes contemporary discussions on Islamophobia. Epistemic Racism is an underestimated aspect of racism. The first part is a discussion about epistemic racism in the world-system.