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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

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

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

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

06 Nov 2023

Israel-Palestine war: Germany’s march to illiberalism in the name of defending Israel

This article first appeared in The Middle East Eye on November 6, 2023 and was written by Bridge Initiative Senior Researcher Farid Hafez Germany’s stance towards the war in Gaza is clear: “In such difficult... read the complete article