Civil Rights

Traversing ideological boundaries: Islamophobia in Greece

  Matilda Chatzipanagiotou and Iason Zarikos overview their first report in Greece for the Countering Islamophobic Narratives in Europe project. The first workstream of the CIK Project resulted in the identification of the most dominant narratives of Islamophobia in Greece and their ideological origins. Print

Something rotten in the state…: Anti-Muslim Racism and the DHMIR

Arzu Merali argues that Domination Hate Model of Intercultural Relations (DHMIR) is desperately needed to make sense of the prevalence of anti-Muslim / Islamophobia and other racisms.   This post seeks to outline the background to and development of the Domination Hate Model of Intercultural

The Wrong Side of Britishness: Anti-Muslim Narratives in the UK

The demonisation of Muslims is now embedded in the various discourses of the nation, argues Arzu Merali.  Tackling the institutionalised narratives of hate – often dressed up as concerns for security or rights – needs to be a top priority for government. The end of

Happy, Happy, Happy: Tolerant Portugal and the ‘Good Muslims’

In contemporary Portugal, Lusotropicalism – which constructs the country as particularly tolerant towards the formerly colonized and grounds this assumption on a historical discourse of miscegenation and benevolent colonialism – has permeated the public debate on the colonial legacies. Muslims have been key subjects in