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Journal Article: Racism and Nationalism during and beyond the Covid-19 pandemic
New Journal Article by Professor Fethi Mansouri, Dr Amanuel Elias, Mr Jehonathan Ben and Professor Yin Paradies. Racism and xenophobia associated with the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic disproportionately affect migrants and minority groups worldwide. They exacerbate...
New Article: Muslim communities in Australia and the ‘mainstreaming’ of outer-group suspicion and apprehension
Professor Fethi Mansouri has written an article that was recently published in the Melbourne Asia Review. The article looks at how Muslims tend to be characterised as the least desirable group of migrants and continue to be viewed with suspicion and apprehension. Few...
Journal Article: Young Muslim Australians’ experiences of intergroup contact and its implications for intercultural relations
New Journal Article by Professor Fethi Mansouri, Professor Ihsan Yilmaz, Dr Ana-Maria Bliuc and Dr Galib Bashirov. Literature on intergroup contact shows that in the absence of the required structural conditions, contact is not necessarily always a positive experience...
Radio Interview: The normalisation of Arab states with Israel and its implications for the Palestinian cause
Professor Fethi Mansouri was recently interviewed on SBS Arabic 24 radio on the normalisation of Arab states with Israel and its implications for the Palestinian cause. The interview, conducted by Iman Riman and Manal al-Ani in Arabic, can be accessed by clicking...
Radio Interview: Aggressive secularism exacerbates religious tensions in France
Following on from his recent article co-authored with Professor Greg Barton and published on ABC’s Religion and Ethics online, Professor Fethi Mansouri was interviewed on 25 November 2020 by Andrew West from On The Religion and Ethics Report on ABC Radio National,...
Opinion Piece: Muslims are not the problem, and critics are not the enemy: How aggressive secularism is dividing France
Professor Fethi Mansouri recently had an opinion piece published on the ABC Religion & Ethics website. The article, co-authored with Professor Greg Barton, Chair in Global Islamic Politics at Deakin University, looks at recent terrorism attacks in France and...
Professor Fethi Mansouri is elected as a fellow to Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia
Professor Fethi Mansouri, UNESCO Chair on Comparative Research on Cultural Diversity and Social Justice, was this week named one of 38 new fellows elected this year to the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. “This is more than a...
New Article: For French Muslims, every terror attack brings questions about their loyalty to the republic
On 30 October, Professor Fethi Mansouri wrote an article for The Conversation. The article, co-authored with Professor Greg Barton, was written in response to the recent terror attacks that occurred in Nice, France. To view the full article, please click here. A...
Research Report: Understanding Victorians’ varied attitudes towards Muslims
Professor Fethi Mansouri is pleased to announce the release of the final report from the project, ‘Dissecting Islamophobia: Understanding the varied racialisation of Islam using Latent Class Analysis. This project was undertaken by Alfred Deakin Institute for...
Radio Interview: France’s crime should be condemned, so should other crimes
Professor Fethi Mansouri was recently interviewed by SBS Arabic24 Radio to provide his views on recent events in France. The interview, conducted by Iman Riman and Manal Al Ani explored comments from the French Interior Minister, Gerald Darmanin where he said he was...
Journal Article: Public Attitudes Towards Multiculturalism and Interculturalism in Australia
New Journal Article by Professor Fethi Mansouri is coauthored with Dr Amanual Elias and Ms Reem Sweid. The growing intellectual and policy debate around optimal approaches to diversity governance, particularly in relation to criticism of multiculturalism, is now...
Journal Article: On the Discursive and Methodological Categorisation of Islam and Muslims in the West: Ontological and Epistemological Considerations
Professor Fethi Mansouri was recently published in Religions (MDPI). This article reflects on the ethical and epistemological challenges facing researchers engaged in contemporary studies of Islam and Muslims in the West. Particularly, it focuses on the impact of the...
UN International Peace Day
Professor Fethi Mansouri was recently interviewed by SBS Arabic Radio to provide his thoughts on this year’s World Day of Peace, held annually on 21 September. This year marks the 75th anniversary of the establishment of the United Nations with this years event...
Virtual Conference: UN International Day of Peace 2020
Professor Fethi Mansouri was recently invited to participate as a plenary speaker at the UN International Day of Peace Virtual Conference. Professor Mansouri presented on critical reflections on World peace / International relations in the context of the emerging...
Presentation: Multiculturalism and Global Citizenship in a post COVID19 World: The role of global youth in emerging/post-covid recovery agenda
Professor Fethi Mansouri gave a keynote presentation on 10 September to the Y20, the Youth Engagement Arm of the G20 Group. The presentation was titled ‘Multiculturalism and Global Citizenship in a post COVID19 World: The role of global youth in...
New Briefing Paper: The Socio-Cultural Impact of Covid-19: Exploring the Role of ICD in Emerging Responses
Through inductive exploration of authentic, local, community responses to the COVID-19 crisis, this brief examines the new context in which the ICD agenda is being pursued, complementing the many existing quantitative analyses of the socio-cultural impact of...
Webinar : UNESCO webinar on Media and Information Literacy and Intercultural Dialogue
On Thursday 6 August, UNESCO and UNAOC Media and Information Literacy and Intercultural Dialogue University Network held a webinar to discuss the response to the Covid-19 Webinar Series with the topic of “When global citizens face a global crisis: Linking up solutions...
Panel Discussion: Do Interfaith and Intercultural dialogue initiatives effectively stand against Racism?
Professor Fethi Mansouri joined a panel discussion on Racism and Dialogue in an online webinar organised by Blue Star Intercultural Centre and Australian Centre of Christianity and Culture, Charles Sturt University on the evening of Thursday 23 July 2020. Professor...
What lies beneath? COVID-19 and the racial politics of face masks
This opinion piece has been written by Scheherazade Bloul, PhD candidate to Professor Fethi Mansouri, UNESCO Chair for Cultural Diversity and Social Justice and coauthored with Dr Shakira Hussein, a researcher based at the University of Melbourne. This piece was...
Radio Interview : Australia’s export relationship with China
In a recent interview with SBS Arabic24 Radio, Professor Fethi Mansouri stated that the "National interest comes first" and is confident that Australian exports to China will continue, despite tension. The interview, presented by Jamileh Fakhri, is conducted in Arabic...