In the News Archives - Bridge Initiative

24 Oct 2024

After the far-right victory: what’s next for the Austrian government?

Elections in Austria are over. The Austrian far-right celebrated a historical victory by winning the most votes following a similar success in the European Parliamentary elections in July this year for the first time ever.... read the complete article

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07 May 2024

Statement on Campus Protests

The Alwaleed Center for Muslim Christian Understanding (ACMCU), The Bridge Initiative and the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies (CCAS) at Georgetown University stand in support of courageous university students across the country exercising their First... read the complete article

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26 Apr 2024

Fighting Smear Campaigns Against Muslims in Europe: The Case of Professor Farid Hafez

In March 2023, The New Yorker published an article, “The Dirty Secrets of a Smear Campaign,” revealing a large-scale systematic smear campaign that disseminated false allegations of purported links of European residents to Islamists with the aim... read the complete article

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11 Mar 2024

The Austrian state’s attack on Muslims shows no sign of easing

This article originally appeared in The Middle East Eye on Marc 10, 2024 and was written by Bridge Initiative Senior Researcher Farid Hafez On 9 November 2020, seven days after a gunman in Vienna had... read the complete article

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25 Jan 2024

Protesting Germany’s far-right: Fear of Africanization, Orientalization and Islamization

This article originally appeared in Anadolu Ajenci (AA) on January 24, 2024 and was written by Bridge Initiative Senior Researcher Farid Hafez The author has been the Class of 1955 Distinguished Visiting Professor of International... read the complete article

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18 Jan 2024

German rebuff of Gaza ‘genocide’ case also has roots in Namibia

This article originally appeared in the EU Observer on January 18, 2024 and was written by Bridge Initiative Senior Researcher Farid Hafez The world has now witnessed more than 100 days of war in Gaza... read the complete article

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22 Dec 2023

‘Seen as less human’: Why has Islamophobia surged amid Israel’s Gaza war?

In this piece published by Al Jazeera on December 21, 2023, journalist Indlieb Farazi Saber interviewed Bridge Initiative Director, Dr. John L. Esposito, who talked about Islamophobia in light of Israel’s war in Gaza and... read the complete article

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22 Dec 2023

State-sponsored hate: How Islamophobia shapes US support for Israel’s actions in Gaza

This article first appeared in The New Arab on December 20, 2023 and was written by Bridge Associate Director, Mobashra Tazamal. From television screens to the halls of Congress, Americans have been drip-fed a steady... read the complete article

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04 Dec 2023

4 Criminalising Critical Scholarship: Austria’s Inteligence Service and Islamophobia Studies

This article was written by Bridge Initiative Senior Researcher Farid Hafez and appears in the book Disentangling Jihad, Political Violence and Media, published by Edinburgh University Press in 2023. In the article “Criminalising Critical Scholarship:... read the complete article

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15 Nov 2023

OPINION – European governments fighting antisemitism with Islamophobia

This article first appeared in Anadolu Agency on November 15, 2023 and was written by Bridge Initiative Senior Researcher Farid Hafez ISTANBUL Antisemitism and Islamophobia are two sides of the same coin. European leaders’ attempt... read the complete article