A couple of days ago, baba sent me this nazm called Bahar aayi (Spring is here). The nazm is written by the Marxist, Urdu poet and writer Faiz Ahmed Faiz (known for his revolutionary poetry and work on socialism). Its sung by Tina Sani, a famous ghazal singer in Pakistan. Growing up in the 1990s, it was mainly through her voice that Faiz’s poetry was…
A few days ago, this image popped up on my fb feed as a memory. I’m not a fan of social media, but I do enjoy this particular feature that manages to throw one back to old memories and conversations with friends and family. This is my friend Elisabeth Hamrin, at one of our regular dinner meetups in her home at Ådalagatan, in Linköping. We…
My article on everyday anti-Muslim racism is now available online in the journal of Critical Sociology. One of the aims of the project I worked on at Cemfor was to understand Muslim women’s experiences of Islamophobia (I prefer to use the term anti-Muslim racism). The article is based on individual and focus group interviews with about 30 women who were either born or raised in…
The article Poetic homesplaces can now be read in the Swedish Journal of Gender Studies. The article is about a group of Muslim women in Sweden who write poetry. Based on conversations with the poets as well as readings of their work, I highlight how, in recent years, various spoken word platforms have been significant for a younger generation of Muslim women, especially from the…
Glad to share that me and my colleague René-León Rosale’s article “‘We just want to make art’ – Women with experiences of racial othering reflect on art, activism and representation” is now available and can be read online in the Journal of European Journal of Women’s Studies. The article is based on two separate research projects that deal with the subject of activism and art…
On Monday, I gave a lecture at Cemus (Centre for Environment and Development Studies). Cemus is a student-initiated and interdisciplinary center at SLU and Uppsala University with the ambition to contribute to a just and sustainable world. This is done not least by offering courses and through education creating spaces for dialogue between students, researchers and social actors from various fields and backgrounds. I was…
I’m excited to announce that the special issue “Racism and Religion” is now out! This special issue consists of six research articles that, in different ways, deal with the intersection between racism and religion. It is published in the journal of Critical Research on Religion. The special issue has undergone a very long process, which is unfortunately often the case with publications in scientific journals….
A few weeks ago, I attended the super exciting Critical Approaches to the Study of Religion conference. The conference was held at Queens University in Belfast in Northern Ireland and was organized by the Center for Critical Research on Religion. For three days, researchers from different parts of the world gathered to present their research that dealt with various topics such as the application of…
Yesterday, I presented my research project on a seminar at the Swedish Research Institute here in Istanbul (SRI). I have been at SRI for two months now where I have been writing articles based on my project on anti-Muslim racism, gender and art. One of the texts that I presented yesterday focuses on how a group of young Muslim girls uses spoken word poetry in…
The course Globalization, race and privileges has now begun. It is a master course of 7.5 credits that I together with Patricia Lorenzoni from Cemfor have been working on during the spring. The course is part of the Gender Studies – Master’s Program in the Humanities which is given at Uppsala University and deals with topics such as power, migration, gender and inequality from a…
