Forced Migration Review

A special supplement edition of the Forced Migration Review journal has just been published and is entitled:  Islam, human rights and displacement.

Now online at: http://www.fmreview.org/human-rights.htm

Full details form the press release are available as follows and hard copies will me made available in the Refugee Archive in due course:

FMR’s 12-page supplement on Islam, human rights and displacement will soon be available in Arabic and English.

We hope it will enhance debate and understanding of the concepts and
instruments of international human rights in the Islamic world. More
information is online at http://www.fmreview.org/human-rights.htm

How to request copies:

All readers who usually receive the Arabic edition (NHQ) of FMR will receive a copy of the supplement in Arabic with their copy of NHQ 31 in January. You therefore do not need to request it UNLESS you would like to receive multiple copies for training purposes and/or onward distribution.

The English version of the supplement will NOT be mailed out to regular readers of FMR. You need to email us to request copies. We are keen to distribute copies to organisations which would find it useful for training and awareness-raising purposes. We would also be happy to send it to libraries and resource centres.

If you would like copies of the supplement, please email us at
fmr@qeh.ox.ac.uk, indicating:
- which language
- how many
- your full postal address
- and, preferably, how you propose using it.

REMINDER
If you have not already done so, we would be extremely grateful if you would complete our reader survey at http://www.fmreview.org/2008survey.htm This will help us make sure FMR is meeting your needs and give us ideas of how we might improve it. Thank you!

Marion Couldrey, Maurice Herson & Musab Hayatli
Forced Migration Review

fmr@qeh.ox.ac.uk www.fmreview.org
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Posted in: Refugee Studies and Periodicals.

Framing Muslims Seminar: ‘Islam and Civic Responsibility: the City Circle experience’ by Dr Usama Hasan AND ‘Resisting Blackness: Transnational Sudanese Women and Islamic Cultural Space in the Diaspora’ by Dr Anita Fabos

SOAS/UEL Framing Muslims Seminar Series

Framing Muslims: Representation in Culture and Society Post 9/11 – Seminar

Date: Thursday, 27 November 2008
Venue: Room EB.G.18 (University of East London, Docklands Campus)
Time: 5:30-7:00pm

Dr Usama Hasan
‘Islam and Civic Responsibility: the City Circle experience’

Dr Usama Hasan is Senior Lecturer in Engineering & Information Sciences at Middlesex University, an imam at Tawhid Mosque in Leyton and Director of the City Circle, a London-based network of Muslim professionals that has been at the forefront of forging an authentic Muslim identity in Britain for the last decade.

Dr Anita Fabos
‘Resisting Blackness: Transnational Sudanese Women and Islamic Cultural Space in the Diaspora’

Dr Anita Fabos researches in the areas of ethnicity and race, gender, refugees in urban settings, immigration and naturalization policy, Arab nationalism, and Islam at UEL. She was formerly the Director of the Program in Forced Migration and Refugee Studies and Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the American University in Cairo. She has conducted ethnographic research among Muslim Arab Sudanese forced migrants in Cairo, published as ‘Brothers’ or Others? Gender and Propriety for Muslim Arab Sudanese in Egypt (Berghahn Books). Her current research interests include transnational strategies of women and men in the Sudanese diaspora, livelihoods of urban refugees, and refugee narratives.

Abstract:

This presentation explores the embodied strategies of Arab Muslim Sudanese in Egypt and the United Kingdom within a framework of a ‘Muslim diaspora’. It compares discourses of belonging in two distinct socio-legal contexts whereby key elements of Muslim Arab Sudanese identity are performed according to local conditions, taking on different meanings. Egypt and Britain are both familiar to Sudanese through colonial relationships of domination and occupation, and later as locations for study, recreation and exile, but the contemporary legal, political and socio-cultural environments in Britain and Egypt have shaped Sudanese identity in the diaspora in distinctive ways. In Egypt, a Muslim nation with a long history of entanglement with the Muslim Arab people of  northern Sudan, Sudanese immigrants and exiles have asserted their superior performance of the shared value of propriety, claimed by both as fundamental to a ‘Muslim’ and ‘Arab’ identity. In the UK Sudanese similarly present themselves in morally superior terms, joining other voices in the Muslim diaspora and finding solidarity within an Arab cultural framework. I analyse a number of bodily practices that promote a Sudanese identity abroad, tying the use of beautification procedures, and skin-lightening creams in particular, to Sudanese assertions of Arab ethnicity and Muslim belonging within a racial hierarchy that derives primary meaning from Sudan¹s own history and racial categories.

All are Welcome.  Booking is not required.
For further information contact: Peter Morey on p.g.morey@uel.ac.uk

Posted in: Refugee Studies / Conferences & Events.