August 25th 2022 saw the release of the latest report from the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding (ISPU). Titled “American Muslim Poll 2022: A Politics and Pandemic Status Report”, this is the sixth installment of the poll which presents an updated demographic profile of American Muslims1. Both previous and new questions were included in the…
Introduction This report—the second of two produced by the British Council Bridging Voices project on ‘The Muslim Atlantic’— represents an analytic synthesis and presentation of insights arising from two workshops organized by the project in 2019 and 2020. The rest of these convenings focused on the question of how debates and discussions about gender compare…
The gender question is the one of the most important questions facing British Muslims. With some Muslims feeling deeply uneasy about it with some very serious and major issues at stake. Muslim men, are scared of feminism and gender equality, questioning what will happen ”if we open the floodgates?” With this fear, key areas of…
“The everyday realities of young Muslim women in Britain “. This is how Tania Saeed’s book is presented on her publisher’s page. Islamophobia and Securitization. Religion, Ethnicity and the Female Voice – published in the “Politics of identity and citizenship” series – addresses the connection between gender, islamophobia and security in the UK. The book…
These are unsettling times for many American Muslims. “People are losing their sleep,” said Naeem Baig, the president of the Islamic Circle of North America. “The political environment is creating a divide in America” by race, language, gender and religion. But it has also had an unintended consequence: galvanizing Muslims to vote. NY Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/02/us/unsettling-political-climate-galvanizes-muslims-to-vote.html
