Islamophobia Studies Journal
Volume 8 • Issue 1 • Spring 2023
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ISSN: 23258381 (print)
EISSN: 2325839X (online)
About the Cover The cover art work was designed by Hani Kharufeh, and was commissioned by the journal to draw attention to Islamophobia and media discourses.
About the ISJ The Islamophobia Studies Journal is a bi-annual publication that focuses on the critical analysis of Islamophobia and its multiple manifestations in our contemporary moment.
ISJ is an interdisciplinary and multi-lingual academic journal that encourages submissions that theorize the historical, political, economic, and cultural phenomenon of Islamophobia in relation to the construction, representation, and articulation of “Otherness.” The ISJ is an open scholarly exchange, exploring new approaches, methodologies, and contemporary issues.
The ISJ encourages submissions that closely interrogate the ideological, discursive, and epistemological frameworks employed in processes of “Otherness”—the complex social, political, economic, gender, sexual, and religious forces that are intimately linked in the historical production of the modern world from the dominance of the colonial/imperial north to the post-colonial south. At the heart of ISJ is an intellectual and collaborative project between scholars, researchers, and community agencies to recast the production of knowledge about Islamophobia away from a dehumanizing and subordinating framework to an emancipatory and liberatory one for all peoples in this far-reaching and unfolding domestic and global process.
Advisory Board Members Hishaam Aidi
School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, Global Fellow at the Open Society Foundation.
Zahra Billoo
Executive Director, CAIR San Francisco Bay Area Chapter (CAIR-SFBA).
Sohail Daulatzai
Program in African American Studies and Department in Film & Media Studies, University of California, Irvine.
Sahar Aziz
Chancellor’s Social Justice Scholar, and Middle East and Legal Studies Scholar, Rutgers University Law School.
Sr. Marianne Farina
Theology Department, Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology.
Jess Ghannam
Psychiatry and Global Health Sciences, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco.
Sandew Hira
International Institute of Scientific Studies, Amsterdam, Holland.
Suad Joseph
Department of Anthropology and Women and Gender Studies, University of California, Davis.
Jasmin Zine
Sociology & the Muslim Studies Option, Wilfrid Laurier University, Toronto, Canada.
Farid Hafez
Department of Political Science and Sociology, University of Salzburg.
Tariq Ramadan
Oxford University and Director of Research Centre of Islamic Legislation and Ethics, Doha, Qatar.
Junaid Rana
Program in Asian American Studies and Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
S. Sayyid
University of Leeds, United Kingdom.
Imam Zaid Shakir
Islamic Law and Theology, Zaytuna College.
Editorial Board Members Hatem Bazian
Islamophobia Research and Documentation Project, University of California, Berkeley.
Maxwell Leung
Grinnell College and California College of the Arts.
Munir Jiwa
Center for Islamic Studies, Graduate Theological Union.
Rabab Abdulhadi
Race and Resistance Studies, San Francisco State University.
Ramon Grosfoguel
Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley.
Editorial Staff Members Umer Mahmood
Marketing and Circulation.
Hani Kharufeh
Design and IT.
Disclaimer:
Statements of fact and opinion in the articles, notes, perspectives, and so on in the Islamophobia Studies Journal are those of the respective authors and contributors. They are not the expression of the editorial or advisory board and staff. No representation, either expressed or implied, is made of the accuracy of the material in this journal, and ISJ cannot accept any legal responsibility or liability for any errors or omissions that may be made. The reader must make his or her own evaluation of the accuracy and appropriateness of those materials.
Table of Contents
Editorial Introduction 8
Fighting Islamophobia Through Preservation of Memory. A Case Study: Palestinian Journalism 10
Nofret Berenice Hernández Vilchis
Effective Countering Islamophobia Strategies in the Digital Age: Three Approaches 25
Sahar Khamis
Gendered Islamophobia in Italy: The Case of Silvia Aisha Romano 42
Marta Panighel
Responding to Islamophobia: British Muslims “Talk Back” to the UK 57
Sabah Firoz Uddin
Cinematic Representations of Iran after 9/11 and their Instrumentalization by the American Foreign Policy 70
A. Coletsou
Mapping Islamophobia: The Indian Media Environment 83
M. Mohibul Haque and Abdullah Khan
Moulay Ismail and the Mumbo Jumbo: Black Morocco Revisited 100
Hisham Aidi
Conceptualizing Islamophobia in India 123
Sheheen Kattiparambil
Russian Islamophobia: From Medieval Tsardom to the Post-Soviet Man 141
Iskander Abbasi