[van-announce] Combatting Islamophobia in the Media

[usman majeed]

https://www.facebook.com/events/1525190607785545/

rabble.ca Presents: Combatting Islamophobia in the Media

Tuesday, April 5 at 7 PM - 9 PM

Mount Pleasant Neighbourhood House
800 East Broadway, Vancouver


Come join us for a community forum on the mainstream media landscape
and how it has the power to either reinforce or fight islamophobia in
Canadian society.

Come out to hear firsthand, the lived experience and perspective of
Muslim communities, and engage in a dialogue about the importance of
placing storytelling and news coverage in the hands of frontline
communities, especially folks facing racialization from dominant media
bodies.

With an emphasis on journalist responsibility, this forum will feature speakers:

Sunera Thobani:

Sunera Thobani is Associate Professor at the Institute for Gender,
Race, Sexuality and Social Justice, University of British Columbia,
Canada. Her research focuses on critical race, postcolonial and
feminist theory, globalization and violence, citizenship, migration,
Muslim women, the War on Terror, and media.

Itrath Syed:

Itrath Syed is a PhD candidate at the School of Communication at SFU
where her research involves an analysis of the discursive regimes that
govern Muslim subjectivities in Canada post 9/11 . She also teaches
Women’s Studies at Langara College and Asian Studies at Kwantlen
University. Itrath has a history of activism against war and
occupation, and against the racial profiling of the Muslim, Arab and
South Asian communities in Canada

Urooba Jamal:

Urooba Jamal is a Pakistani, Muslim immigrant to the gorgeous, unceded
Musqueam lands known as Vancouver. She’s got a penchant for the
political, polemic and poetic. A self-proclaimed life-long dissident,
she loves engaging in eccentric sartorial endeavours, making leftist
jokes that only a fraction of people in the room can understand
and...eating! In the past year, she has ran for political office as
the youngest candidate in Vancouver's municipal elections, given a
TEDx talk on student activism and helped co-found a leftist,
alternative student press, The Talon, at the University of British
Columbia. A recent graduate, she is currently interning at Leftword
Books, a Marxist publishing press in India, doing freelance
communications and journalism work and slowly subverting corporate
culture at her office day job. Her post-grad plans also include:
painting whimsically, wearing whimsical outfits, having whimsical love
affairs and taking part in the communist revolution (basically,
becoming Frida Kahlo). She tweets a lot (@uroobajamal) and blogs a
little (underuroobasumbrella.tumblr.com)

Danny Ramadan

Danny Ramadan is a jack-of-all-trades who found his calling in
activism, civil society, journalism and creative writing. As an LGBTQ
activist, he has been involved in coordinating online and on the
ground efforts to support gender and sexual minorities in Egypt,
Turkey, Lebanon as well as his birthplace of Syria. Danny arrived in
Canada in September 2014 as a Queer Syrian refugee, and based on his
experiences, he decided to shift his focus to supporting the LGBTQ
Syrian refugees in the Middle East as they claim asylum in Canada. He
personally sponsored two sisters to join him here in Vancouver, and is
supporting seven other refugee-claimants as they go through the same
journey he did. Danny is an experienced journalist with bylines
appearing in the Washington Post, The Guardian and Foreign Policy. He
is also the Volunteer Coordinator at QMUNITY - BC's Queer Resource
Centre.

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Ayesha Khan

Ayesha Khan is a fourth year student at KPU and plans to graduate with
a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology and a certificate in NGO & Non Profit
Studies this Summer. During her undergraduate career, she has also
studied at Harvard University, where she was in the Archaeology and
History program which focused on Slave Trades, the African Diaspora
and Slave Roots Tourism throughout Ghana, West Africa. Ayesha is
currently the Secretary on the Board of Directors for Human Concern
International- a Canadian charity based in Ottawa, Ontario, as well as
the Director of Anti-Oppression at Kwantlen Public Interest Research
Group- KPIRG. She is passionate about humanitarian aid and global
development, and has participated in various forms of international
volunteerism- including teaching English and P.E classes at a school
for Syrian refugees in Reyhanli, Turkey.

On April 5th, from 7-9pm
Mount Pleasant Neighbourhood House, in the West Hall.

In partnership with Media Democracy Days, Women Studies Program:
Langara College, and BC Civil Liberties Association.



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