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The Bridge Initiative is a multi-year research project on Islamophobia housed in Georgetown University.
The Bridge Initiative aims to disseminate original and accessible research, offers engaging analysis and commentary on contemporary issues, and hosts a wide repository of educational resources to inform the general public about Islamophobia.
Research & Resources
I am not your Muslim!
This op-ed by Senior Research Fellow Farid Hafez originally appeared on LeMuslimPost. Unfortunately and as it has been thoroughly documented, Europe has not solved its white supremacy problem and its tradition of othering minorities. Professor Hafez draws the connecting line between Raoul Peck’s quotation from Baldwin from 1963 to Sartre’s work on antisemitism and Edward…
Normalizing the far right in Austria
This op-ed by Bridge Initiative Senior Research Fellow Farid Hafez originally appeared in TRT World. In the past, far-right parties would have been ostracized, but now it’s a question of how to accommodate them. This poses dangers for minority rights, and in particular, Muslims. Early memories For the first time in post-World War II Europe, when the…
When the Fear of Muslims Leads Jews to Whitewash the Far Right
“In Austria today, the real anti-Semitic threat is from Muslims, not Nazis,” argues Martin Engelberg, one of Austria’s first Jewish post-war members of parliament, who ran for the Liste Sebastian Kurz, the new name for the former Christian Democratic Austrian People’s Party (ÖVP). In reply, Benjamin Guttmann, from the Austrian Union of Jewish Students argued,…