I Refuse to Condemn
I REFUSE TO CONDEMN
RESISTING RACISM IN TIMES OF NATIONAL SECURITY
Edited by ASIM QURESHI
Manchester University Press
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To
Shaqira, Aniqah, Aaliyah, Jamal, Shakeel, Amaan, Lili, Hanna, Zahraa, Haytham, Duhaa, Zakariyah, Khadija, Aadam, Ibrahim, Ibraheem, Isa, Aaishah, Sulayman, Musa, Maya, Asiya, Aayah and Ilyas
Fiza
Hannah, Inayat, Maria, Madihah, Samihah, Adilah, Wajihah and Yusuf
Aya, Yaqeen and Ameen
Ammara Mayya
Nusaybah, Faatimah and Ayub
Maryam, Abdulhameed, Saleem, Ali, Sara, Eesa, Zain, Sophia, Musa and Akeem
Sawera, Yusuf, Eshaan, Laibah, Hina, Imaan, Zahra, Amman and Sahil
Aneesah Aduke Olorunkemi
Sumaiyyah and Saifur Rehmaan
Ayana and Amerah
Sienna
Taalia
Yara, Rayan and Jana
Idriis
The words written in this book are by those who are fighting for your future. Honour them and keep them in your prayers, always.
CONTENTS
NADYA ALI
Nadya Ali is a lecturer in international relations at the University of Sussex. Her research examines the UKs counter-radicalisation strategy, Prevent, and its racialised and gendered government of Muslim populations since 9/11. Her work intersects with the wider themes of border politics, citizenship and British (post-)imperial identity formation in the War on Terror. She is currently engaged in a research project exploring the intersectional politics of austerity and Islamophobia, supported by De Montfort Universitys Centre for Urban Research on Austerity (CURA).
FAHAD ANSARI
Fahad Ansari is the principal solicitor and director of Riverway Law, a niche firm specialising in immigration and nationality law. Fahad also works as a consultant at Duncan Lewis Solicitors. He is regularly instructed in cases involving national security such as deprivation of citizenship, passport confiscations, naturalisation, exclusion and deportation of convicted terrorists. He was listed as a Recommended Lawyer in the 2020 edition of the Legal 500 for Immigration: Human Rights, Appeals and Overstay and Civil Liberties and Human Rights. Fahad has been involved in community work around the War on Terror and Islamophobia for almost two decades.
SHENAZ BUNGLAWALA
Shenaz Bunglawala is the deputy director of the Research and Strategy Unit, Penny Appeal, and formerly assistant director at Aziz Foundation. She has led research into Islamophobia, racial and religious equality and the impact of counter-terrorism legislation on British Muslim communities for more than a decade. She is a trustee of the Christian Muslim Forum and a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
SHAFIUDDEAN CHOUDRY
Shafiuddean Choudry is a career technologist and co-founder of the Riz Test. He holds a degree in computer science and has fifteen years experience in the tech industry, working on process automation, big data and digital transformation projects. Having taught himself to write code at a young age, Shafiuddean has always been fascinated with the way technology can be used for the greater good. He has spoken at several events on the importance of diversity in tech and recently went on to co-found the Riz Test to measure how Muslims are portrayed in the arts.
ADAM ELLIOTT-COOPER
Adam Elliott-Cooper received his PhD from the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford. His current research focuses on urban displacement in London. He has previously worked as a teaching fellow in the Department of Sociology, University of Warwick, and a researcher in the Department of Philosophy, University College London. He has also worked as an associate researcher in the Sociology Department at Goldsmiths, University of London, and the School of Politics and International Relations, University of Nottingham. Adam received his undergraduate degree in politics from the University of Nottingham and his MSc in Globalisation and Development from SOAS, University of London.
SHEREEN FERNANDEZ
Shereen Fernandez completed her PhD while acting as a teaching associate at QMUL, University of London. Prior to this, Shereen was a primary school teacher in London. Her PhD research looked at how schools, teachers and Muslim parents in London engage with the Prevent duty and British values.
SADIA HABIB
Sadia Habib taught English Literature and Language in secondary school and college. She completed her MA in Education at Goldsmiths, University of London, and was later awarded a PhD for her research studies on the teaching and learning of Britishness. She recently co-founded the Riz Test to measure representation of Muslims in film and on television. She currently works at Manchester Museum on a project engaging young people with the heritage sector.
AZEEZAT JOHNSON
Azeezat Johnson is a social geographer interested in developing conversations about Black (and) Muslim geographies which push against the racialisation of bodies as Other to a neutralised White self. Her PhD research (completed at the University of Sheffield in 2017) grew from this vein of thinking: it used the clothing practices of Black Muslim women in Britain to explore how the performance of ones identity changes as we move through and interact with different objects, bodies, gazes and spaces. This pushed against a static reading of Black Muslim women (which are all too often constructed as either Black or Muslim). It also moved beyond the hypervisibility of the headscarf within academic and popular debates by pointing to the multitude of different presentations that are used.
REMI JOSEPH-SALISBURY
Remi Joseph-Salisbury completed his PhD at the University of Leeds in 2016 before working as a senior lecturer at Leeds Beckett University for two years. In 2018, Remi moved to the University of Manchester to take up the position of Presidential Fellow in Ethnicity and Inequalities. Remis first book, Black Mixed-Race Men , was published by Emerald Publishing in 2018. His co-edited collection, The Fire Now: Anti-Racist Scholarship in Times of Explicit Racial Violence , was published in November 2018. He has published in national and international journals on topics covering his broad interests including race, racism, anti-racism, the post-racial, mixedness, masculinities and education.
HODA KATEBI
Hoda Katebi is the Chicago-based angry daughter of Iranian immigrants. She is the voice behind JooJoo Azad, the political fashion platform hailed from the BBC to The New York Times to the pages of Vogue ; author of the book Tehran Streetstyle , a celebration and documentation of illegal fashion in Iran; host of #BecauseWeveRead, a radical international book club with over thirty chapters internationally; and founder of Blue Tin Production, an all-women immigrant and refugee-run clothing manufacturing co-operative in Chicago. Hoda is an abolitionist and community organiser, previously part of campaigns to end surveillance programmes and police militarisation. She graduated from the University of Chicago in 2016 where her research explored the intersections of fashion, gender and the state in Iran, and will be starting law school in the autumn of 2020. She runs on saffron ice cream and coloniser tears.
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