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Islamophobia and structuring the post-Cold War new world order

Articles Hatem Bazian - August 22, 2018

"Islamophobia and structuring the post-Cold War new world order" The shift towards Islamophobia and using the Muslim subject as the singular global strategic threat emerged...

Özil story: Soccer, double standards and Islamophobia

Articles Hatem Bazian - July 25, 2018

"Özil story: Soccer, double standards and Islamophobia" Mesut Özil, the German National Team player, posted a letter on July 22, 2018 explaining his reasons for...

The ‘Muslim Exclusion Act’ and America’s rising xenophobia

Articles Hatem Bazian - July 10, 2018

"The 'Muslim Exclusion Act' and America's rising xenophobia" By a vote of 5-4, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a decision to uphold President Donald...

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.

ISC’s Islamophobia Reporting Toolkit

Islamophobia 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.

Islamophobia, “Clash of Civilizations”, and Forging a Post-Cold War Order!

Hatem Bazian

Islamophobia is an ideological construct used by the advocates of the “Clash of Civilizations” to bring them into the driver seat in the post-Cold War era and have little to do with Islam and Muslims as a religion or a diverse 1.7 billion people living across the world.