We should never judge anyone by how their adversaries represent them, especially when it comes to fellow travelers. In my case, a month of working and speaking on the streets of Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh and Jamia during the 2019 protests against the union government’s new citizenship law, and a decade of sustained research and writing, was all ignored because of a clip mischievously propagated by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and their supporters. Also because, having been a victim of “Congress nationalism,” I try to seriously engage with the ideas of Muhammad Ali Jinnah.

Islamophobia, as a phenomenon and a concept, has been subject to much discussion, debate and academic scrutiny. Whilst research findings and theoretical arguments are at the forefront of this burgeoning body of knowledge, the challenges and tensions experienced by Muslims who research such issues have received lesser attention.

The challenges that non-white academics especially those who challenge Eurocentric philosophies, epistemologies and ontologies, face when attempting to publish in high ranking Euro-American journals, are neither recent nor uncommon across western Higher Education Institutions (HEIs).

In the wake of Zohran Mamdani’s historic primary victory in the Democratic race for New York City mayor, the familiar contours of the American Islamophobic imaginary have re-emerged with a vengeance. A progressive Muslim candidate of South Asian descent, Mamdani’s victory symbolizes both the possibility of a radically inclusive politics and the persistence of the racialized boundaries of belonging in U.S. public life.

On May 23, 2024, in a highly polarised session of the General Assembly, the United Nations formally declared July 11 as the International Day of Reflection and Commemoration of the 1995 Genocide in Srebrenica. At long last, the Bosnian genocide was receiving the international attention and recognition that its survivors had long called for.

The significance of the caliphate, its possibilities and calamities, has been contested along familiar lines: for some, it lacks piety; for others, it lacks modernity. There are those who view it as theologically necessary and those who see it as a manifestation of historical contingency, and in the current conjuncture, characterised by apartheid, genocide, and nation-wrecking campaigns, a dangerous distraction.