March 27th 2018 marked the second official Muslim Women’s Day, which aims to empower and celebrate the voices of Muslim women. The event was launched by the blog MuslimGirl, which provides a space for the narratives of Muslim women, who exist in a world of misrepresentation about Islam.
The National Union of Students (NUS) has published its report ‘The experience of Muslim students in 2017-18’. The report highlights the obstacles Muslim students experience in higher and further education, including raising concerns about the effect of the Prevent initiative.
The paper, from the University of Portsmouth and the University of Birmingham, has found that middle-class British Muslim parents are homeschooling their children because they are being subject to racist bullying in mainstream schools.
Sociologists Olivier Galland and Anne Muxel recently published a lengthy study, “The Radical Temptation: A Survey of High School Students,” in which they surveyed 7,000 high schoolers ages 14-16 in Lille, Ile-de-France, Aix-Marseille, and Dijon. A quarter of those surveyed did not completely condemn the Charlie Hebdo and Bataclan attacks, 80% believed that it is wrong to…
MFest, which will be held at the British Library in London on 27th-29th April, will celebrate Islamic literature, ideas, and culture, and aims to challenge the idea that Islam and Muslims are a monolithic and static block, which is one of the fundamental features of Islamophobia.
