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Posted on 10th Feb 2021

The military coup in Myanmar is terrible for the Rohingya

The saying goes, “the enemy of my enemy is my friend”. In Myanmar, the government is learning a different lesson: allying with the military junta is a double-edged sword, and…

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Posted on 25th Nov 202025th Nov 2020

Is France’s fight against extremism criminalising Islam as a whole?

If there is a saying that serves as a snapshot for the times we live in, it’s Ibn Khaldun’s remark that “the past resembles the future more than one drop…

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Posted on 10th Sep 202010th Sep 2020

What will the gentrification of Brick Lane do to the British Bengali community

The journey to a new country for a new life is often a frightening one. The weather can be very different, your stomach responds differently to the new foods, and…

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Posted on 20th Jul 2020

Are current conversations on racism achieving anything?

It is difficult not to feel that the reaction to George Floyd’s murder has been about cosmetics. We have been treated to woke capitalism as corporations gorged themselves on a…

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Posted on 23rd Jun 202023rd Jun 2020

Diversity and White Privilege at Durham University

With the #BlackLivesMatter movement breaking the internet and protests ongoing across the country, I have witnessed a somewhat performative activism taking over my social media feeds, from many who have…

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Posted on 18th Jun 202019th Jun 2020

Yemen’s Humanitarian Crisis: what you need to know

Yemen is currently facing the world’s largest humanitarian crisis – the country is in dire need of aid or else it faces the increasingly likely prospect of extinction. Over the…

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Posted on 17th Jun 202017th Jun 2020

Are criticisms of the race inequality commission’s Munira Mirza valid?

A storm of anger at racial inequality and injustice might have gripped America, but no-one from the British government could say that they haven’t felt some of it too. One…

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Posted on 12th Jun 202025th Jun 2020

How can we address anti-blackness in Desi spaces?

The death of George Floyd in Minnesota at the hands of the white police officer who knelt on his neck for nine minutes reopened a festering wound in America’s social…

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