Interview with Arzu Merali: Human Rights and Islamophobia

Suárez-Krabbe, J. (Participant)

Activity: Other

Period	2014

Keywords

Human rights
Islamophobia
Europe
Racism

Documents & Links

Arzu Merali is a writer, researcher and activist in the field of human rights. Her academic career includes degrees in English literature, law and international relations at Cambridge University, Nottingham Trent University and the University of Kent. Merali co-founded and currently directs the research department of the Islamic Commission for Human Rights (Islamic Human Rights Commission - IHRC), a non-profit organization, based in London, with consultative status with the UN Economic and Social Council promoting campaigns, research and advocacy, struggling for justice for all people regardless of race, religious belief or political identification. Was chief editor of the Palestine Internationalist, an online newspaper focusing on issues of struggle for the liberation of Palestine and the Palestinian people. Arzu Merali organized books and frequently writes articles about Islam, human rights and other subjects for academic and non-academic publications.

Related content

Research output
Race, Social Struggles, and ‘Human’ Rights: Contributions from the Global South
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
Can Europeans Be Rational?
Research output: Other contribution › Net publication - Internet publication › Communication
Pluriversalizing Europe: challenging belonging, revisiting history, disrupting homogeneity
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
Democratising Democracy, Humanising Human Rights. European Decolonial Movements and the “Alternative Thinking of Alternatives"
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

Activities
Asylum Festival
Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Organisation and participation in conference
Appearing As Resistance (by Freedom of Movements)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in workshop, seminar, course

Projects
ALICE – Strange Mirrors, Unsuspected Lessons: Leading Europe to a new way of sharing the world experiences.
Project: Research