Video and Audio

PODCAST: Roberto D. Hernandez on Newness, Modernity and Coloniality

[June 2019] Professor Roberto D. Hernandez discusses the role of the concept of ‘newness’ and ‘modernity’ in eradicating cultures and peoples. Listen to the Genocide Memorial Day 2019 podcast below. In this discussion on historiography and the 1968 revolution, Professor Hernandez looks to the need

PODCAST: Santiago Slabodsky – Are Muslims the new Jews?

[June 2019] Professor Santiago Slabodsky joins Arzu Merali to discuss this phrase often used in activism. Slabodsky argues that shared histories of co-racialisation mean that the ways of seeing both Muslims and Jews in the modern Western psyche should worry us all. Keywords: Muslims, Jews,

Footage of attack on Ashura procession in Kaduna

Nigerian Police appear to be firing on Ashura procession. For latest campaign action to stop the violence visit: NIGERIA: Demand your Minister of Foreign Affairs intervene to stop killings

Iranian Foreign Minister Zarif makes surprise appearance at G7 summit

French President Emmanuel Macron pulled something of an end run around Donald Trump over the weekend when he invited Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif to visit Biarritz, the location of the G-7 Summit, while the G-7 was still meeting. Macron and others have been pushing

Sunnis and Shiahs – Not Who They Think They Are

Imam al-Asi discusses the source of sectarian narratives and the wide ranging implications this creates for today. This is the Khutbah of Imam al-Asi held on 6 September 2013 in Washington, D.C. Keywords: sectarianism, asabiyah