• Discrimination and Xenophobia

    New book: The Religious Identity of Young Muslim Women in Berlin

    by  • May 14, 2013 • Discrimination and Xenophobia, Featured, Featured Publication, Gender Issues and the Hijab/Burqa, Germany, Immigration and Integration

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    “The Religious Identity of Young Muslim Women in Berlin: An Ethnography Study” by Synnøve K.N. Bendixsen About the book: The Religious Identity of Young Muslim Women in Berlin offers an in-depth ethnographic account of Muslim youth’s religious identity formation and their engagement with Islam in everyday life. Focusing on Muslim women in the organisation...

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    Extremist Islamist leaders preaching to UK students, says study

    by  • May 14, 2013 • Discrimination and Xenophobia, Education and Schooling, Interfaith and Multicultural Engagement, Radicalization, United Kingdom, Youth and Pop Culture

    Extremist Islamist leaders preached to crowds of students at almost 200 official events at universities including Cambridge in the past year, a study has revealed. Segregation at student events has become a widespread trend at many UK universities, a student equality group claims. Radical preachers spoke at universities including Cardiff and University College London...

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    The Reluctant Fundamentalist – Film Review

    by  • May 14, 2013 • Discrimination and Xenophobia, Issues in Politics, Security and Counterterrorism, United Kingdom

    Its message might be flabby, but Mira Nair’s adaptation of Mohsin Hamid’s novel is still a bold piece of global storytelling. Based on the 2007 novel by Mohsin Hamid, this is an ambitious, heartfelt tale of divided loyalties in a world where complacent belief in the triumph of globalised capital was shattered by the...

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    French ministers refuse to attend conference with Islamic scholar who teaches at Oxford University

    by  • May 14, 2013 • Discrimination and Xenophobia, Education and Schooling, Issues in Politics, Public Opinion and Islam in the Media, Security and Counterterrorism, United Kingdom

    Tariq Ramadan is an Islamic scholar who teaches at Oxford University and a former member of a working group on extremism set up by Tony Blair. Time magazine once described him as the “leading thinker” among Europe’s second and third-generation Muslim immigrants. Yet two French ministers have suddenly announced that they will not attend...

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