Surprises are not over! ENORB is hosting a further conversation for reflection and connection as part of its programme of interfaith dialogue and continued focus on the rising concerns among faith and civil society organisations about the contemporary development of Islamophobia and resulting anti-Muslim hatred in Europe. We are delighted that Dr Farid Hafez and Dr Kawtar Najib are joining us to present the latest findings from the European Islamophobia Report.

Dr Farid Hafez is a Visiting Professor of International Studies at Williams College, and a non-resident senior researcher for Georgetown University’s Bridge Initiative at the School of Foreign Service. He is also the founder and co-editor of the European Islamophobia Report (2021).

Dr Kawtar Najib is a French geographer and lecturer at the University of Liverpool. Her research interests centre on social and urban geographies of inequality and discrimination using both quantitative and qualitative methods. She explores more broadly issues of social and spatial justice and was the principal researcher of the SAMA (Spaces of Anti-Muslim Acts) project which highlights the impact of Islamophobic discrimination on space and people. She is the author of the book ‘Spatialized Islamophobia’ (published in 2021 by Routledge) which shows the omnipresence of Islamophobia at all spatial scales and brings increased recognition of ‘Geography’ in Islamophobia Studies.

We have invited further contributors – especially from close partners at the European Network Against Racism and Faiths Forum London, including Mustafa Field OBE.

The conversation will be facilitated by Manchester-based Sadia Akram, Programme Director of the Forum for Discussion on Israel & Palestine (FODIP) and also consultant at Civil Society Consulting CIC.