Nesrine Malik



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Articles: 2017

 * After Finsbury Park, Britain must tackle its preachers of anti-Muslim hate - Sunday night’s attack wasn’t a surprise to those of us who recognise that Islamophobia, in print or over the airwaves, can have real-world consequences - 19th June
 * Grenfell shows just how Britain fails migrants - On the north Kensington streets, the truth of multicultural London is apparent – there is no cheaper life than that of a poor refugee - 17th June
 * The far right wants to exploit the Westminster attack. London won’t let it - There is something about the capital – a rich texture that rejects simplistic incendiary rhetoric. It’s not immune to hate, just too complex to be swayed by it - 23rd March
 * We’re doomed by the identity trap, damned when we try to escape - It’s disheartening that even someone as resilient as Diane Abbott was hounded into defining herself in terms of race and gender - 21st February
 * Suddenly, Muslims are America’s pariahs - Officers ‘just following orders’, confused children, fearful parents: with Trump’s vile ban, Islamophobia has finally burst its banks - 30th January
 * Brexit lays bare the brutal reality for the UK’s immigrants - EU nationals are discovering that the Home Office is driven not by reason but by keeping numbers down - 10th January



Articles: 2016

 * Whether it’s Brexit or Trump, populists are such sore winners - Unlikely political victors in the US and UK are now even angrier: because, robbed of the ability to blame everything on others, they can no longer play the victim - 2nd December
 * Meghan Markle and Gina Miller don’t recognise their limits. Good for them - As the attacks on Prince Harry’s girlfriend and the legal campaigner make clear, non-white women will receive vitriolic abuse if they don’t ‘know their place’ - 9th November
 * Two white men in the media lost their jobs. Sound the alarm - A guy from The Now Show and a guy from Autumnwatch have been sacked, sort of. The female job-eating zombies of colour are clearly on the rampage - 20th October
 * Identity politics doesn’t deserve Lionel Shriver’s contempt, but it can be limiting - While the author’s dismissal of cultural appropriation was ignorant, it’s not a solution to suggest we shouldn’t imagine different lives to our own - 13th September
 * There’s nothing wrong with mourning Brussels but not Beirut - Don’t sneer at those who are more shocked by tragedies in Europe than in the rest of the world. We feel closer to those we are culturally connected with - 25th March
 * Stripping criminals of their UK passports – even terrorists and sex abusers – is dangerous - Linking punishment to origin creates two classes of citizens. The message to immigrants is that their citizenship is always on parole - 2nd March
 * The migrant bogeyman is back - After Cologne, Europe’s mood on refugees has abruptly swung from naive embrace to wounded outrage. And neither is helpful - 14th January



Articles: 2015

 * Why do deaths in Paris get more attention than deaths in Beirut? - Yes the media is skewed but we, as consumers, are complicit. There are complex reasons for the imbalance - 18th November
 * A female Arab TV presenter put a rude male guest in his place. So what? - Rima Karaki’s put-down of Sheikh Hani Al-Siba’i has gone viral – proof that creepy western stereotypes about Muslim women are dismayingly hard to shift - 11th March
 * If you watch Isis’s videos you are complicit in its terrorism - The crime does not end with the death of the hostage. Viewing it writes us into the killers’ script - 5th February
 * Charlie Hebdo: The 'them and us' narrative is a dangerous downward spiral - It may suit cynical politicians to push the 'clash of civilisations' line, but such polarised thinking is simplistic and can be deadly - 9th January
 * Madonna's cultural appropriation confirms what a cliche she has become - As they plunder minority cultures in their desperation to appear edgy, all artists such as Iggy Azalea and Madonna succeed in doing is flaunting their unoriginality - 7th January



Articles: 2014

 * Too big and too scary, but the global fat cats can be chopped down to size - Taming corporate power: We need to break up multinationals and leave tax dodgers nowhere to hide - 10th December
 * Rich Gulf Arabs using Tanzania as a playground? Someone opened the gate - The hunters may not care about sacrificing Masai rights – but Tanzania’s government should - 17th November
 * Banking is set up for scandal – don’t blame the individuals - Bankers are human as the rest of us, which is why we need to rethink the size, structure and unwieldiness of the banking system itself - 1st November
 * Why is there still so little diversity in the British media? - It seems the hated banking sector is doing a better job of encouraging black and ethnic minority people than the media - 15th October
 * The Sun's 'Unite against Isis' campaign is a proxy for anti-Muslim bigotry - You, Muslim! Is your Islam 'British' enough? Are you standing up to extremism? If not, you are Part of the Problem, apparently - 8th October
 * Islamic State requires Saudi Arabia to rethink its support for extremism - The Saudi government may deny links to the group, but its promotion of hardline Islam is not something the west can ignore any longer - 29th August
 * In Islam, there's more than one way to be an 'atheist' - Saudi Arabia has declared atheists to be as bad as terrorists. But does this mean those without faith cannot live happily in the Muslim world? - 6th May
 * Saudia Arabia's human rights 'rebrand' is fooling no one - For all the progress on some minor points, touchstone issues such as the ban on women driving are barely addressed - 21st March



Articles: 2013

 * Saudi Arabia won't show the UN how it plays the game - The kingdom sought a security council seat then rejected it. Split personality? Yes, but its cynical foreign policies are not unique - 23rd October
 * The Malaysian 'Allah' ban is about putting minorities in their place - The 'Allah' ruling is as ridiculous as a UK law saying that 'God' is a Christian designation, and other religions can't use it - 16th October
 * Sudan is finally building up to its own Arab spring - With clashes in the centre of Khartoum and a rapidly rising death toll, inertia has turned to anger at Omar al-Bashir's regime - 2nd October
 * I was forced to wear the veil and I wish no other woman had to suffer it - Nesrine Malik resented having to wear the niqab in Saudi Arabia. But she believes the argument against it is not as simple as some think - 20th September
 * Message to Richard Dawkins: 'Islam is not a race' is a cop out - The focus on the academic distinction between religion and race acts as a fig leaf for prejudice and outright bigotry - 20th September
 * Saudi Arabia's domestic violence law is a first step to changing attitudes - It will still be difficult for Saudi women to report abuse by male guardians. But at least the problem is now being acknowledged - 30th August
 * Richard Dawkins' tweets on Islam are as rational as the rants of an extremist cleric - My Eid was interrupted by Richard Dawkins tweeting about how few Nobel prizes Muslims have won. His logic rings a bell - 8th August
 * Paralysis or blood money? Skewed justice in Saudi Arabia - 'Diyya' is a remnant of sharia law that takes justice out of the realm of the legal, and into personal, ambiguous dynamics - 5th April
 * Chinua Achebe's anti-colonial novels are still relevant today - He traced the dehumanising effects of western cultural arrogance that are still at work today in Iraq and Afghanistan - 25th March
 * Dubai torture allegations: Britain puts economic interest before citizens - As Reprieve claims that three British tourists have been tortured in the UAE, Britain is signing military defence contracts - 22nd February 2013



Articles: 2012

 * In Dubai, sex on the beach isn't a cocktail but a way to end up in jail - The conviction in Dubai of two expats for 'indecent behaviour' show that Dubai's relatively permissive approach should not be abused - 25th November
 * The Arab Spring has done nothing for Gaza - Since the revolutions in the Arab world, Gaza is no longer without allies, but with friends like these, who needs Israelis? - 22nd November
 * No women please, we're Saudi Arabian Ikea - Women being airbrushed out of catalogues is par for the course in Saudi Arabia – but what does it say about the Swedish brand? - 2nd October
 * Treatment of female Nigerian pilgrims embarrasses Saudis at the start of hajj - Nigerian women have been subjected to the very dishonour that a male guardian is allegedly required to protect them against - 29th September
 * Sudan's hashtag-free protests over Innocence of Muslims - The outrage in Sudan against the film was not co-ordinated through social media, but a result of old-style word-of-mouth - 18th September
 * Halal toothpaste, anyone? Religious observance has become a global brand - The unstoppable growth of halal products shows we are all fair game for marketers but risks ghettoising the Muslim community - 31st August
 * A Twitter fatwa may seem odd, but it's a sign of our times - A senior cleric has condemned the practice of purchasing Twitter followers as 'dishonest and mendacious', and he has a point - 21st August
 * Change is in the air in Sudan - A new generation of activists use Facebook and Twitter, but arrests show promoting the message on the ground is harder - 28th June
 * Sudan's ageing regime has few answers to the latest wave of protests - Sudan's student protests are no mass uprising. But Omar al-Bashir's bankrupt government is likely to collapse from within - 22nd June
 * Sudan's haphazard sharia legal system has claimed too many victims - The sentencing of a young mother to death by stoning is the latest example of Sudan's random application of Islamic law - 6th June
 * Do Arab men hate women? It's not that simple - Mona Eltahawy's controversial article in Foreign Policy magazine about the treatment of Arab women is a misdirected call to arms - 25th April
 * George Clooney isn't helping Sudan - Clooney's well-meaning activism for the Nuba mountain people is rooted in a political culture that does not care for nuance - 19th March
 * Syria's first lady has a UK passport – that doesn't make her good - British-born Asma al-Assad has come out in support of her husband's oppression of his people – but why are we surprised? - 7th February



Articles: 2011

 * Life after the Arab spring - Events that changed the world in 2011: Egypt's progress from dictatorship to democracy is messy but offers hope to the Arab world - 26th December



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