The Telegraph: Sharia marriage in the UK is not toxic – polygamous men are
In 2012, I was working on a documentary for the BBC on polygamy in Britain. Researching such a sensitive topic was no easy task. Contrary to the hype, polygamy is not socially acceptable in Muslim...
View ArticleBBC1 Documentary: Srebrenica Revisited – a deadly warning
Journalist Myriam Francois-Cerrah travels to Bosnia to mark the twentieth anniversary of one of the worst atrocities in Europe since World War II. You can watch the BBC1 documentary on BBC i player for...
View ArticleBBC Sunday Morning Live
Sian Williams and guests discuss stems cells donations, extremism in schools and genocide. http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b061xdc5/sunday-morning-live-series-6-episode-3 (available for a week)
View ArticleNew Statesman: State-sanctioned prejudice is at the heart of David Cameron’s...
Last year, Olive Tree Primary School in Blackburn was being investigatedbecause a teaching assistant had allegedly discussed, “stoning for gay people” and “condemned music and clapping as satanic”. As...
View ArticleBBC News: Srebrenica massacre – Explained in under two minutes
Srebrenica massacre – Explained in under two minutes In July 1995, Bosnian Serb forces killed more than 8,000 Bosnian Muslims who were meant to be under UN protection. How did this massacre happen? And...
View ArticleThe National.ae: Blaming ‘ancient hatreds’ for Srebrenica ignores politics
There’s something about Srebrenica. Much like when I visited Auschwitz in the 1990s, there is a sense of something profoundly awful having happened there, which stains the very air you breath. Twenty...
View ArticleBLiNK: Muslims as a suspect community
Myriam Francois Cerrah gives Middle East Eye her rundown of the implications of David Cameron’s new strategy to combat extremism for Middle East Eye’s Blink News:...
View ArticleMEE: Morocco’s skirt length battle: What are the deeper questions?
When two Moroccan women were accused of gross indecency earlier this month, for wearing clothing deemed “too tight” as they walked through a market in Inezgane, near the southern city of Agadir in...
View ArticleMEE: Where is morality in the ‘migrant crisis’?
In the summer of 2005, the national science academies of the G8 nations combined with Brazil, China and India – three of the largest emitters of greenhouse gases in the developing world – signed a...
View ArticleNew Statesman: Jean-Marie Le Pen may have been banished. But his ideas endure
There’s no such thing as bad publicity goes the old adage and in the ongoing saga which currently pits the Le Pen dynasty against one another, it seems that may well be true. Of course, family feuds...
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