Farid Hafez

Read the full op-ed in Middle East Eye here

This essay examines Austria’s political approaches to Islam between 2011 and 2022 at the interface of political science and religious policy as informed by postcolonial studies. Austrian political approaches to Islam are analyzed through the study of publications, press releases, government and party programmes, as well as laws, all conceptualized as an Islam dispositif. Against […]

Es diskutieren Dr. Reinhard Kreissl, Dr. Benjamin Opratko, Prof. Farid Hafez, Mag. Leonhard Kregcjk und Meysara Majdoub im Rahmen einer Podiumsdiskussion, die von ZARA und SOS Mitmensch organisiert wurde. Zum Nachsehen hier

Das Wochenmagazin Profil enthält eine Diskussion zu Islamophobia, politischer Islam und Rassismus.

This article discusses the emergence of a discourse on ‘political Islam’ in the policy circles of European elites. It interprets this discourse on one hand as a manifestation of the further criminalization of Muslimness emanating from programs of countering ‘extremism’ and deradicalizing Muslim youth in the wake of the global war on terror. More specifically, […]

Das neue Jahrbuch ist hier erhältlich

The latest edition of our annual project, the European Islamophobia Report 2021, has been released on 21 September, the European Action Day Against Islamophobia. Read the full report here

Read my latest op-ed foe EUObserver here

The ‘War on Terror’ ushered in a new era of anti-Muslim bias and racism. Anti-Muslim racism, or Islamophobia, is influenced by local economies, power structures and histories. However, the War on Terror, a conflict undefined by time and place, with a homogenised Muslim ‘Other’ framed as a perpetual enemy, has contributed towards a global Islamophobic […]

As guilty until proven innocent increasingly becomes authorities’ approach to Muslims, basic rights such as freedom of religion are at great risk. Read my analysis here