The collapse of the post-colonial world has given rise to overwhelming injustices in many nations worldwide, none more so than in Palestine. Borders and boundaries are creating a refugee-immigration crisis on a mass scale leading to the slow ‘erasure’ of humans through systematic oppression and the ongoing liberation struggle. Navigating to unmask the structural racism, violence and multiple genocides, this book delves deep into Dr Bazian’s own experiences as a Palestinian living in the diaspora away from his homeland, to critically analyse the history and origins of the immigration-refugee crisis.
Reviews:
"From Palestine to Black Lives Matter, this important book plots a powerful and passionate journey that crosses disciplinary boundaries, disputed borders and connects the dots that Eurocentric scholarship systematically continue to obscure." - S. Sayyid, Professor of Social Theory and Decolonial Thoughts, University of Leeds.
"Dr Bazian's personal story, shaped in large part by the Israeli occupation of his homeland, shows that even under conditions that erase one as human, we can still preserve our humanity and work tirelessly to assist others in doing the same." - Imam Zaid Shakir.
About the author
Dr Hatem Bazian is a decolonial Islamic scholar who centres Islam's epistemology in all his work and examines the contemporary world through a global south lens. Dr Bazian is known as an organic intellectual, a term used for scholars who directly connect their work and scholarship to people and are not confined to academia's constructed walls of elitism. Dr Bazian is the author of five books, numerous chapters, peer-reviewed journal articles, hundreds of press articles, and constant academic contributions and engagement across the globe. Dr Bazian is a leading scholar in the Islamophobia Studies field having founded the Islamophobia Studies Center, Editor-in-Chief of the Islamophobia Studies Journal and co-founder and current President of the International Islamophobia Studies and Research Association (IISRA). Dr Bazian co-founded Zaytuna College, the 1st Accredited Muslim Liberal Arts College in the United States. Dr Bazian is a lecturer in the Departments of Middle East Languages and Cultures and Asian Diaspora Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.
Author: Dr. Hatem Bazian
Format: Paperback
Pages: 273
Publisher: Claritas Books
Published: 2021
ISBN: 9781800119956
Dimensions: 29 x 23 x 1cm