Contesting Islamophobia

Peter Morey is Professor and Chair in 20th Century English Literature at the Department of English, University of Birmingham. Previously he was Professor in Postcolonial Studies at the School of Arts and Digital Industries at the University of East London. His recent publication include the monographs Fictions of India: Narrative and Power; Rohinton Mistry; and Alternative Indias: Writing, Nation and Communalism and the co-authored book Framing Muslims: Stereotyping and Representation after 9/11. Amina Yaqin is Senior Lecturer in Urdu and Postcolonial Studies and Chair of the Centre for the Study of Pakistan at SOAS. She is co-author of Framing Muslims: Stereotyping and Representation after 9/11 and co-editor of Culture, Diaspora and Modernity in Muslim Writing. Her articles have appeared in peer-reviewed journals such as Interventions; Comparative Critical Studies; Fashion Theory and Journal of Women’s History. Alaya Forte is based at SOAS, University of London, where she is researching for a PhD on the political representation of Muslim women in British local and national politics. She has an MA in Gender Studies from SOAS, a BA in Arabic and Islamic Studies from the University of Exeter and a degree in Politics from the University of Nice.

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Foreword: The Roots of Modern Islamophobia
John L. Esposito

Introduction: Contesting Islamophobia in Theory and Practice
Peter Morey

Section One: Islamophobia, Politics and History
1. American Foreign Policy, Self-Fulfilling Prophecy and Muslims as Enemy Others
Nathan Lean

2. Donald Trump at the Intersection of Nativism, Islamophobia and Anti-Muslim Sentiment: American Roots and Parallels
Peter Gottschalk

3. Islamophobia: The Muslim Problem? A Discussion Between Dibyesh Anand, Myriam Francois and Jim Wolfreys
Chaired by Peter Morey

Section Two: Islamophobia and Representation
4. Islamophobia and the War of Representations: Martin Amis’s ‘The Last Days of Muhammad Atta’
Geoffrey Nash and Nath Aldalala’a

5. ‘A Sly and Stubborn People’: Games of Thrones, Orientalism and Islamophobia
Roberta Garrett

6. Islamic Feminism in a Time of Islamophobia: The Muslim Heroines of Leila Aboulela’s Minaret and Elif Shafak’s Forty Rules of Love
Amina Yaqin

Section Three: Youth Contesting Islamophobia
7. Countering Islamophobia in the Classroom
Sarah Soyei

8. Resisting Islamophobia: Muslim Youth Activism in the UK
Tania Saeed

9. Young Muslims in Germany and Their Use of New Media to Counter Islamophobia
Asmaa Soliman

Section Four: Art Beyond Islamophobia
10. Adjusting the ‘Islamic’ Focus: Exhibitions of Contemporary Pakistani Art in Britain in the Post-9/11 Decade
Madeline Clements

11. Super Moozlim Battles Islamophobia
Leila Tarakji

12. Homegrown: The Story of a Controversy
Nadia Latif interviewed by Peter Morey and Amina Yaqin