Grateful for the opportunity to share some of my thoughts on the transnational travels of Islamophobia alongside the wonderful Bharath Ganesh, @katrif, and Dr. Qurash. Thanks to Torkel Brekke & Iselin Frydenlund for organizing the conference and Eviane Leidig for taking the picture.

Sweden is widely condemned in the “Muslim World” for “Allowing” the burning of the Quran. Hey, “Muslim World,” China is not only destroying mosques and burning Quran, China is burning the Uyghur Muslims alive. Did anyone of you condemn China for the Uyghur Genocide?

Like Ukrainians, #Myanmar's people are courageous, spirited and united, and willing to make great sacrifice in their fight for democracy. Unlike #Ukrainians , they are not receiving the kind of assistance that could help shorten a war of liberation ..... usip.org/publications/2…

Yuval Hariri reminds us that Israel has no checks or balances on its extremist government -- no constitution, no senate, no federal structure -- other than the Supreme Court. If Netanyahu succeeds in undermining the court's independence, he will be on a path to "dictatorship."

Befolkningens syn på #22juli har endret seg, skriver nestleder ved C-REX (@crexuio.bsky.social), Anders R. Jupskås (arjupskas.bsky.social) i Aftenposten aftenposten.no/meninger/kroni…

Ric UDLAChile sundeep (@historysunny.bsky.social) King's History @SocStudiesShef Uni Manchester Sociology @uomsociology.bsky.social CoDE @ethnicityuk.bsky.social Chiara Denaro Università di Bologna Università di Trento Peter Wade Social Anthropology Manchester uek.krakow.pl Guest Editorial: Flows and Modalities of Global #Islamophobia Authors: Bharath Ganesh, Iselin Frydenlund, and Torkel Brekke C-REX (@crexuio.bsky.social) Coming soon! #Identity #racialization #Globalization

#ERSNew #OpenAccess 🐣 🔓 Iselin Frydenlund examines Buddhist #Islamophobia, arguing that it needs to be understood as a constituent element of global Islamophobia(s), and moreover, that it cannot be reduced to being the result of Western export of Islamophobia globally. (1/2)

#ERSNew 🐣 In this Guest Editorial, Bharath Ganesh, Iselin Frydenlund, and Torkel Brekke propose a framework of flows and modalities to understand #Islamophobia across the world and develop a transnational perspective on Islamophobia that challenges Western-centric approaches. C-REX (@crexuio.bsky.social)

India’s ruling party has deployed an app that collect workers’ and voters’ identifying information, name, address, and photo, as well as demographic indicators such as religion, caste, and profession. One party leader calls it an election winning machine restofworld.org/2024/bjp-saral…

So happy that our Special Issue on Global Flows of Islamophobia is finally out! #islamophobia Bharath Ganesh , Torkel Brekke, @davidstroup, Edin Kozaric, C-REX (@crexuio.bsky.social) tandfonline.com/toc/rers20/47/5

New Special Issue out on Quran burnings in the Nordic region, for the INTERSECT research project journal.fi/temenos/issue/…

Article alert! What is the role of Buddhism in the Myanmar Spring Revolution? Read more here: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

#ERSMostRead One of our #MostReadArticles at the moment is Bharath Ganesh, Iselin Frydenlund & Torkel Brekke'sa 2023 Editorial 'Flows and modalities of global Islamophobia'. It acts as an introduction to our Special Issue on Global Islamophobia. You can read the introduction here:

A Burning Affair - A New Special Issue on the Burning of the Qur’an in Temenos - Nordic Journal for the Study of Religion, edited by Göran Larsson, Iselin Frydenlund and C-REX (@crexuio.bsky.social) research leader Torkel Brekke journal.fi/temenos/articl…

Buddhist division and polarisation in Myanmar’s revolutionary situation - New Mandala shar.es/ag6gyU via New Mandala

Buddhist division and polarisation in Myanmar’s revolutionary situation - New Mandala newmandala.org/buddhist-divis… via New Mandala

This is a really great choice by the Nobel committee!

Four years ago I wrote my inaugural poem The Hill We Climb. Both when I wrote it and performed it, I did so while continuously reflecting on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr and Coretta Scott King’s legacy. I was (and am) blown away by how my words reverberated around the world; if