News
As the war in Gaza rages, social cohesion in Australia is under strain — how to ensure it doesn’t break?
Professor Mansouri and Andrew Jakubowicz co-authored a piece for ABC News and published in the Religion & Ethics Section
ADI Conference 2024 Call for Abstracts
Call for Abstracts are now open for the ‘Remaking Futures: Justice, Equality and Global Flourishing’ Conference on 25-26 November 2024.
The Role of Education and youth engagements in Combating Xenophobia and Discrimination
Recording of the Panel Session at the 6th World Forum on Intercultural Dialogue.
Speaking at the 6th World Forum on Intercultural Dialogue
Professor Mansouri will be part of a plenary discussion on the role of education and youth in combating xenophobia and discrimination.
I’m not racist, but…
Resharing the 2022 Seriously Social podcast on Racism, in light of its popularity.
Guardian interview with UNESCO Chair about charges of racism against soccer player Sam Kerr
Professor Mansouri stated that “we are really trivialising and oversimplifying the huge impact that racism is actually having on people who are oppressed.”
Interdisciplinary Research Symposium on Religion and Migration in Australia and the Pacific
Professor Fethi Mansouri and Dr Enqi Weng will both be speaking at the upcoming Interdisciplinary Research Symposium on Religion and Migration in Australia and the Pacific on 7 March 2024.
New research project to understand culturally and linguistically diverse needs relating to road safety
The UNESCO Team are seeking to address a data gap and learn more about road safety for culturally and linguistically diverse groups.
Journal of Intercultural Studies Volume 45, Issue 1
Published February 2024
In the media
SBS Audio (Podcast) Australia Fair: Episodes 1 & 3 (21 October 2024)
360info (Article) Playing politics with migration is risky business for Australia (7 August 2024)
The Jewish Independent (Article, co-authored with Andrew Jakubowicz) An Overdue vision for multicultural Australia (1 August 2024)
The Conversation (Article) Kamala Harris refers to herself as a ‘woman of colour’. Is it okay if everyone else does too? (25 July 2024)
SBS Arabic24 (Radio Interview) هل تزيد محاولة اغتيال ترامب من حدة الاقصاء والتحريض في الخطاب السياسي الامريكي؟ (Does the attempt to assassinate trump increase the intensity of exclusion and incitement in American political discourse?) (15 July 2024)
ABC Radio Sydney Drive (Radio) Interview with Ellen Fanning on Social cohesion in multicultural Australia (10 July 2024)
9 July 2024. ABC Religion & Ethics (Article co-written with Andrew Jakubowicz). As the war in Gaza rages, social cohesion in Australia is under strain — how to ensure it doesn’t break?
20 June 2024. ABC Religion & Ethics (Article) The war in Gaza has revealed the limits of our prevailing political narratives and the vital role that universities can play
14 June 2024. ABC RN God Forbid (Radio) What does it mean to live in a multicultural society?
31 May 2024. Pearls and Irritations (Article). We need to talk about racism in Australia today.
28 May 2024. The Conversation (Article). Is Australia a Ractist Country? We asked 5 experts.
9 December 2022. Crikey. How Palestine is winning the World Cup.
28 March 2022. The Seriously Social Podcast by the Academy of the Social Sciences. Racism is still an everyday experience for non-white Australians. Where is the plan to stop this?
28 March 2022. The Conversation. Racism is still an everyday experience for non-white Australians. Where is the plan to stop this?
15 September 2021. Changing minds. 2SER Radio Interview
28 July 2021. Tunisia’s young democracy thrown into constitutional crisis. The Wire Radio Interview
Fethi Mansouri, 22 July 2021. What we need to combat persisting Islamophobia in Australia. SBS Arabic24
Fethi Mansouri, 8 July 2021. Australia said it was going to collect diversity data with Covid-19 vaccinations and positive tests. But is it? ABC News article
Fethi Mansouri, 12 January 2021. Muslim communities in Australia and the ‘mainstreaming’ of outer-group suspicion and apprehension. Melbourne Asia Review
Fethi Mansouri, 16 December 2020. The normalisation of Arab states with Israel and its implications for Palestinian cause. SBS Arabic24
Fethi Mansouri, 27 November 2020. Aggressive secularism exacerbates religious tensions in France. ABC’s Religion and Ethics online
Fethi Mansouri, 18 November 2020. ‘Muslims are not the problem, and critics are not the enemy: How aggressive secularism is dividing France. ABC Religion & Ethics
Fethi Mansouri, 30 October 2020. ‘For French Muslims, every terror attack brings questions about their loyalty to the republic’ The Conversation
Fethi Mansouri, 29 October 2020. ‘The socio-cultural implications of Covid-19′ (French) UNESCO
Fethi Mansouri, 26 October 2020. France’s crime should be condemned, so should other crimes. SBS Arabic24
Fethi Mansouri, 14 July 2020. “National interest comes first”: Professor Fethi Mansouri confident Australian exports to China will continue despite tension. SBS Arabic24
Fethi Mansouri, 29 May 2020. ‘The socio-cultural implications of Covid-19′ (English) UNESCO
Fethi Mansouri, 20 May 2020. Global implications of Covid-19 SBS Arabic24
Fethi Mansouri, 14 May 2020. ‘Advancing a new social contract in the post Covid-19 era’ (French) UNESCO
Fethi Mansouri, April/May 2020. ‘Advancing a new social contract in the post Covid-19 era’ (English) UNESCO (14 May 2020), also republished by Newsbreak.com (May 2020), Centre for Intercultural Dialogue (19 May 2020) and Sixteens SDB (21 April 2020)
Ihsan Yilmaz, Ana-Maria Bliuc and Fethi Mansouri, 22 November 2019. ‘These young Muslim Australians want to meet Islamaphobes and change their minds. And it’s working’, The Conversation.
Fethi Mansouri, 2019. ‘Recalibrating multiculturalism’ dKin
Fethi Mansouri, 14 June 2018. ‘ADI Director takes tough stance on Australia’s aid program’ Invenio
Fethi Mansouri, 5 June 2018. ‘Gaza and Australia’s vote’, SBS Radio (Arabic).
Fethi Mansouri, 5 February 2018. ‘Research opposes media narrative of ‘African gangs’ in Melbourne Invenio
20 Dec 2017. Reinventing Australia’s multiculturalism AMES
Fethi Mansouri, 21 November 2017. ‘From Al Mesbar Monthly Book Muslims in Australia: History and Policies of Multiculturalism’ Al Mesbar Studies & Research Center
Fethi Mansouri, 10 July 2017. ‘Australians unlikely to intervene in Islamophobic attacks’ SBS News
Fethi Mansouri, 4 May 2017. ‘Fethi Mansouri ‘Baku Process’ message instils deep hope to jointly solve problems’, Azernews.
Fethi Mansouri, 5 December 2016. ‘Launch of the Fethullah Gulen Chair in Islamic studies and Dialogue at Deakin University’ Hizmet Movement news portal,
Fethi Mansouri, November 2016. ‘Celebration of African Australians Inc. Supporters.’ QACC, Queensland African Communities Council.
Fethi Mansouri, 21 October 2016. ‘Refuting Foundations of Extremism’, Australian Muslim Times.
Fethi Mansouri, 25 September 2016. ‘Are the results of the poll valid?’, SBS Arabic 24.
Fethi Mansouri, 15 September 2016. ‘Pauline’s peddling the hate again’, Eureeka Street.com.au
Natalia Pereira, 2015. ‘Human Rights for All’: Spotlight on Young Migrants in Thailand’, UNESCO BKK.
Fethi Mansouri, 1 Decmber 2015. Religion ‘helps Muslims belong’, says study, The Australian.
Riccardo Armillei and Fethi Mansouri, 21 October 2015. States of Emergency, OpenDemocracy.
Fethi Mansouri, 5 April 2015. ‘Opinion Piece: ‘Resilience of Carthage has lessons for Tunisia’s leaders’, The Age.