Displaying Author: Farid Hafez
17 Sep 2018
The Far Right in Europe: How promising is Steve Bannon’s European organization ‘The Movement’?
Bannon’s global agenda “Patriots of the world, unite!” were the words of Steve Bannon speaking to the delegates of the Front National’s (today Rassemblement National) party convention in Lille in March 2018. Saying this, Bannon… read the complete article
04 Sep 2018
Sweden’s ’Moderate’ Far Right Has a Nazi Problem
This op-ed by Bridge Initiative Senior Research Fellow Farid Hafez originally appeared in Haaretz. Sweden, a strong welfare state, has traditionally been a society where opposition to racism is instinctively considered part of decent conduct.… read the complete article
04 Sep 2018
Austria’s next Islamophobic policy: Banning the hijab in kindergarten
This op-ed by Senior Research Fellow Farid Hafez originally appeared in Daily Sabah. When the Christian-democratic conservative Austrian People’s Party (ÖVP) together with the right-wing populist Freedom Party (FPÖ) formed a coalition government last December… read the complete article
29 Aug 2018
Chemnitz: Germany’s urgent cry to fight racism
This op-ed by Bridge Initiative Senior Research Fellow Farid Hafez originally appeared in Anadolu Agency. The grossly dehumanizing act of hounding people who look ‘different’ has to be evaluated at the backdrop not only of… read the complete article
08 Aug 2018
The Axis of the Right: Europe’s New Isolationist Front
This article by Bridge Initiative Senior Research Fellow Farid Hafez originally appeared on Qantara.de. Europe is shifting to the right. Border security and isolation increasingly dominate the migration policies of the European Union. At a national… read the complete article
06 Aug 2018
Banning the Hijab in Austria
This article by Bridge Initiative Senior Research Fellow Farid Hafez originally appeared on CPD Policy Blog. Christian Democrats in Defense of Religious Freedom It is as if one would fly back in time. In… read the complete article
25 Jul 2018
Kicking Islamophobia: France, the World Cup & the enduring Problem of Racism
This article by Bridge Initiative Senior Research Fellow Farid Hafez originally appeared on the Islamophobia Research & Documentation project’s website. Let me admit something before starting these lines of thought. Like most soccer games before, I have not watched… read the complete article
18 May 2018
Austria’s Shift to Authoritarian Islam Politics
This article by Bridge Initiative Senior Research Fellow Farid Hafez originally appeared on the SETA Foundation for Political, Economic and Social Research’s website. While Austria was long known for its inclusion into the polity of… read the complete article
14 May 2018
The French Initiative to Change the Qur’an
This article by Bridge Initiative Senior Research Fellow Farid Hafez originally appeared on the SETA Foundation for Political, Economic and Social Research’s website. On April 21, a manifesto was published in the French daily Le… read the complete article
02 May 2018
Hijab Ban: As the Far Right Targets Muslims, Austria’s Response Is an Ugly, Complicit Silence
This op-ed by Bridge Initiative Senior Research Fellow Farid Hafez originally appeared in Haaretz. The new Austrian government is today one of several coalition governments in Europe with a far right populist party in a… read the complete article