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.

Both a primer for those new to the topic and a source of sophisticated conceptual advances for those already immersed, the range of topics covered by authors at the top of their game will provide insights for all. From literary fiction to Donald Trump, from superhero comics to real life military cultures, and from classroom toolkits to fantasy in the Game of Thrones, this collection informs and inspires challenges to the poisonous pervasiveness of contemporary Islamophobia.

• List of IllustrationsList of ContributorsAcknowledgementsForeword: The Roots of Modern IslamophobiaJohn L. Esposito Introduction: Contesting Islamophobia in Theory and PracticePeter Morey Section One: Islamophobia, Politics and History1. American Foreign Policy, Self-Fulfilling Prophecy and Muslims as Enemy OthersNathan Lean2. Donald Trump at the Intersection of Nativism, Islamophobia and Anti-Muslim Sentiment: American Roots and ParallelsPeter Gottschalk3. Islamophobia: The Muslim Problem? A Discussion Between Dibyesh Anand, Myriam Francois and Jim WolfreysChaired by Peter MoreySection Two: Islamophobia and Representation4. 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 IslamophobiaRoberta Garrett6. Islamic Feminism in a Time of Islamophobia: The Muslim Heroines of Leila Aboulela’s Minaret and Elif Shafak’s Forty Rules of LoveAmina YaqinSection Three: Youth Contesting Islamophobia7. Countering Islamophobia in the ClassroomSarah Soyei8. Resisting Islamophobia: Muslim Youth Activism in the UKTania Saeed9. Young Muslims in Germany and Their Use of New Media to Counter IslamophobiaAsmaa SolimanSection Four: Art Beyond Islamophobia10. Adjusting the ‘Islamic’ Focus: Exhibitions of Contemporary Pakistani Art in Britain in the Post-9/11 DecadeMadeline Clements11. Super Moozlim Battles Islamophobia Leila Tarakji12. Homegrown: The Story of a ControversyNadia Latif interviewed by Peter Morey and Amina Yaqin