Network ReOrient

In this episode of Radio ReOrient, Salman Sayyid, with Hizer Mir as your host, discusses why Gaza matters. This leads to a wide range of discussions with topics ranging from ongoing support form Washington, London and other Western governments for Israel, how the notion of ummah deployed in light of the attack on Gaza has disrupted the nation state model (amongst others) and what is meant by the concept of Palestinisation of Muslims and how that can be resisted.

Islamophobia is a global phenomenon found not only among the international 'usual suspects' of gross and systemic human and civil rights violators but also among established liberal democracies that present themselves as custodians of the international legal order.

In this episode of Radio ReOrient, we talk to Saul Takahashi, an international human rights lawyer and academic who navigates the intersections between Islamophobia and the international liberal order. He describes his odyssey through the landscapes of Islamophobia, beginning with his human rights work with the UN in occupied Palestine (where he reverted to Islam), to his observations on the Muslim minority in Japan. In Japan, Saul witnessed how the growth of Muslimness seemed to go hand-in-hand with increased state surveillance.

The journey continues to Denmark, where Saul researched the institutionalization of Islamophobia in urban governance, demonstrating furthermore that Islamophobia is racism, and racism is a form of governmentality as much as it is about abusive attitudes and street violence. Given the global nature of Islamophobia, we conclude this conversation by examining some hopeful proposals that Saul has written about reforming the Organization of Islamic Cooperation to make it a more effective player in the struggle against Islamophobia.

This episode of Radio Reorient is based on an event held on Islamophobia and Emancipation. This event was held to discuss the definition of Islamophobia that was put forth by the people’s definition in the UK… Islamophobia is a form of racism against Muslimness and perceived Muslimness.

In this intriguing episode of Radio ReOrient, Kawter Najib, Abdoolkarim Vakil, Salman Sayyid, hosted by myself, Hizer Mir engage in a discussion that explores Islamophobia, its definition and emancipation.

In this episode, Kawter Najib sits with Hizer Mir to return to the topic of Islamophobia in France. In this discussion we talk about Kawter’s own experiences of Islamophobia in France as well as the Islamophobic murder of French-Algerian teenager Nahel Merzouk in the summer.

In this episode of Radio ReOrient, Rebecca Ruth Gould, Claudia Radiven and your host Salman Sayyid, talk about some of the issues raised by Rebecca’s new book Erasing Palestine (https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/2903-erasing-palestine).

In the realm of popular culture, representations of ancient Greeks and Romans abound in the West and Western adjacent societies. Classics, primarily focused on the study of Greeks and Romans, serve as Western history's foundational narrative. However, this narrative tends to create a timeline that excludes Muslim contributions and unintentionally supports the colonial-racial agenda of the West.

In this intriguing episode of Radio ReOrient, Dr Marchella Ward from the Open University and Abdoolkarim Vakil from King's College, London, engage in a discussion that explores the notable similarities and differences between two academic domains: Critical Ancient World Studies and Critical Muslim Studies. This episode serves as an anticipatory introduction to the forthcoming publication titled "The Case for Forgetting Classics," edited by Mathura Umachandran and Dr Marchella Ward. Within this volume, numerous scholars come together with a shared commitment to decolonize the study of ancient Greeks and Romans.

Recorded during the Bradford Literature Festival, this conversation provides a platform for reflecting on how the discourse of ancient Greco-Romans has shaped Western perceptions of history, epistemology, and identity, underwriting the exclusion of Muslimness.

In this episode, Naoki Yamamoto, assistant professor in Turkic Studies at Marmara University sits with Hizer Mir to discuss Sufism and manga with an eye towards the possible development of an Islamicate manga. Manga is a quintessentially Japanese style of comics and graphic novels. Naoki is working towards an Islamicate version of manga in order to contribute to a growing global Islamicate culture.

This episode features the second part of a series on the Political Struggle in Pakistan. Professor Salman Sayyid, Dr. Sher Ali Tareen and Dr. Shehla Khan critically explore liberalism, populism and secularism. Focusing on how these concepts are key to understanding the deep crisis engulfing Pakistan, but are often construed in simplistic binaries rooted in orientalism that impoverish the debate, and impede the search for a resolution. In contrast, the podcast seeks to shift the debate to a post-orientalist terrain as well as one that resists the allure of methodological nationalism, and resonates with ummatic struggles more broadly.
The immediate context of the discussion remains Pakistan’s subjection to a de facto military dictatorship that is waging war on its people in its bid to crush former PM Imran Khan and his party, the Pakistan Tehreek e Insaaf (PTI) as symbols of a more just, equitable, and less westoxicated political order.

In this episode of Radio ReOrient, Salman Sayyid and Sher Ali Tareen converse with Shehla Khan about the political, economic, and constitutional crisis that has been intensifying in Pakistan since the ouster of Prime Minister Imran Khan in April 2022.

In this episode, we listen in on a symposium on Muslimness organised by the Critical Muslim Studies project. The symposium featured Abdoolkarim Vakil and Ovamir Anjum as the speakers and was chaired by Mona Makinejad.

In this episode, Salman Sayyid and Haroon Bashir sit with Fatima Rajina to discuss Muslim communities in Argentina and Chile.

In this episode, Hizer Mir sits with Salman Sayyid to discuss the divine, texts (primary and secondary) within Islam and power.

In this episode, Hizer Mir sits with Adam Olowo to discuss the myth of religious violence. We also discuss how far the category of religion can be used outside of Europe/the West.

In this episode, Hizer Mir sits with Murad Idris for the second part of their discussion on his book “War for Peace”. In this part, ideas pertaining to war for peace in the thought of Al-Farabi and Qutb are discussed.

In this episode, Ayesha Khan and Dr. Shehla Khan continue their conversation with Dr. Sher Ali Tareen, relating his writings on Imranophobia to broader questions of decoloniality, secularity, culture, and the trajectory of events in Pakistan.

This podcast features Ayesha Khan and Dr. Shehla Khan in conversation with Dr. Sher Ali Tareen, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Department Chair of Religious Studies at Franklin Marshall College, and author of the widely acclaimed volume, Defending Muhammad in Modernity. Taking its cue from the political crisis that has erupted in Pakistan since the ouster of Prime Minister Imran Khan in April 2022, the episode traverses the various articles that Dr. Tareen published prior to and during Khan’s tenure in government on the interface between what he terms ‘Imranophobia’, secular liberalism, and Islamophobia. Although the episode is primarily focused on Pakistan, its themes are resonant with political struggles and faultlines in other states across Muslimstan.

In this episode, coming to you from Istanbul, we listen on the last plenary session of the inaugural conference of the International Islamophobia Studies Research Association.

In this episode, Ismail Patel sits with Hatem Bazian to discuss Palestine, the Arab world and global civil society. Their discussion touches upon a range of issues such as relations between Israel and the wider Arab world as well as how the Palestinian struggle is viewed within global civil society.

In this episode, the last of season 7, Ayesha Khan sits with Salman Sayyid to talk about recent events in Pakistan and how they relate both the idea of Pakistan and Kemalism/Coloniality.

In this episode, Hizer Mir sits with Murad Idris to discuss his work War for peace. In this part, issues related to defining the idea of war for peace, essentialism and the political are discussed.

In this episode of Forgotten Ummah, Dr. Baptiste Brodard speaks with Prof. Salman Sayyid and Dr. Haroon Bashir about the history of Islam in Mexico and Columbia and the development of Latin-Islamic identities.

In this episode of In Conversation, Hizer Mir and Sumeyye Sakarya sit together to discuss Islamism, whether Islamism is an acceptable term to use and the contours of the discourse known as Kemalism.

In this episode, the second to mark the launch of the new Critical Muslim Studies website (link in comments), Hizer Mir sits with Professor Salman Sayyid to reflect on the proliferation of Critical Muslim Studies and discuss some of its key themes. This discussion touches upon post-Orientalism and Eurocentricism.

To mark the launch of the new Critical Muslim Studies website (link: https://criticalmuslimstudies.co.uk), Hizer Mir sits with Salman Sayyid to discuss Critical Muslim Studies.

In this episode, Ismail Patel sits with Rob Faure Walker to discuss his new book,”The Emergence of Extremism”.

In the last episode of season five, Hizer Mir sits with Salman Sayyid to conclude their discussion on Islamism as Philosophy.

In this episode, Claudia Radiven and Ismail Patel sit with Darryl Li to discuss his book The Universal Enemy: Jihad, Empire and the Challenge of Solidarity.

In the first episode of this new series, Salman Sayyid and Haroon Bashir talk with Kelly Hammond about her new book.
Her book explores how the geopolitical rivalries between China and Japan created opportunities for Muslim Chinese to articulate their Muslimness politically and culturally.

In this episode, Hizer Mir and Salman Sayyid talk about the continued interest in Islamism from various quarters, how we should approach Islamism as a concept and the story of philosophy.

In this episode, Hizer Mir talks with Salman Sayyid on Islamism as philosophy. This is the first part of a three part mini series this season. This episode covers topics such what is Islamism and the suitability of the concept “Islamism”.

In this episode, Hizer Mir sits with Sindre Bangstad to reflect on the far right and Islamophobia in Norway and wider Europe in the 10 years since the Brevik attack.

In this special episode in connection with the Islamophobic attack in London, Ontario, Uzma Jamil and Itrath Syed are in a wide ranging conversation, following the attack in London, Ontario, about Muslim politics, Islamophobia, the logics of settler colonialism, multiculturalism and the nation in Canada and Quebec.

In this episode, Abdoolkarim Vakil and Salman Sayyid talk about the genealogy of Critical Muslim Studies.

In this episode, Hizer Mir talks with Tarek Younis and Claudia Radiven on disciplining Muslimness and PREVENT.

In this episode, Ismail Patel is In Conversation with Yaacov Yadgar on Jews, Zionism and the Israeli nation-state.

In this episode, Uzma Jamil speaks to Sylvia Chan-Malik on Muslims as racialised subjects.

In this episode, Haroon Bashir speaks with Shahid Matthee on Africa, Islam, law and history.

In this episode, Amina Easat-Daas is in conversation with Marwan Muhammad on CCIF and Islamophobia in France.

In this episode, Amina Easat-Daas interviews Houria Bouteldja on decolonial activism and Islamophobia in France.

In this episode of In Conversation, Claudia Radiven talks with Abdul-Basit Shaikh on PREVENT, academia and representation.

In this episode, Ismail Patel speaks with Diana Darke about her new book, “Stealing from the Saracens: How Islamic Architecture shaped Europe”.

In this episode, Uzma Jamil speaks with Santiago Slabodsky on decoloniality, decentring and genealogies.

In this episode, Ismail Patel talks with Lars Erik Berntzen on the Far Right and the expansion of anti-Muslim sentiment within it.

In this episode, Uzma Jamil is speaking to Stephen Sheehi on epistemology, critical race theory and critical Muslim studies.

A conversation with Dr. Sylviane Diouf on enslaved Muslim in the Americas.