IRR News Interviews
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Fighting ghosts: an interview with Husein Al-Samamara
Below we publish an interview with Husein Al-Samamara, currently subjected to draconian immigration bail conditions in the UK as he fights against his deportation to Jordan, where he was imprisoned and tortured.
1 July 2010 (3812 words)
Creating a support network for young refugees
An interview with Mohammed Jouni, a 24-year-old refugee from Lebanon who lives in Germany and is active in the Berlin branch of Youth without Borders (JoG, Jugendliche ohne Grenzen).
6 May 2010 (2152 words)
Fighting anti-Muslim racism: an interview with A. Sivanandan
IRR News spoke to one of the foremost analysts of racism and Black struggle as to how to meet the contemporary challenge of anti-Muslim racism.
15 March 2010 (1544 words)
Building migrant civil engagement in east Germany
An interview with Dr Esra Erdem, coordinator of the Empowerment and Participation of Immigrants* in east Germany project (EmPa) based at the Brandenburg Regional Centres for Education, Integration and Democracy.
29 October 2009 (2267 words)
Young Dutch Muslims find a venue
An interview with Umar Mirza, the 22-year-old chief editor of the Dutch website 'We're Here to Stay'.[1]
22 October 2009 (1885 words)
Austria: 'provoking and connecting' the Kanafani way
Below we reproduce a discussion with members of the Austrian Kanafani Inter-Cultural Initiative.
19 May 2009 (1894 words)
No glory days for immigrant elders in France
An interview with Boualem Azahoum, an activist with DiverCités and El Ghorba in Lyon.
5 March 2009 (1993 words)
A Muslim feminist in France speaks out
An interview with Zahra Ali, president of Al Houda, a Muslim women's organisation.
5 March 2009 (3258 words)
Speaking for the youth of the banlieues
An interview with Abdul Zahiri, an activist with ACJ REV in Avignon.
5 March 2009 (1243 words)
Speaking up for young people
An interview with 13-year-old Asiya Hassan, a member of the Bristol City Academy steering committee that organised a forum on the detention of asylum-seeking children.
11 December 2008 (566 words)
Organising in the banlieues
An interview with Pierre Didier, president of the Social Forum of the Banlieues.
9 October 2008 (649 words)
Britain's shame: from multiculturalism to nativism
As every step that Blair takes to 'cohere' the nation is at the expense of ethnic minorities, and Muslims in particular, IRR News talked to A. Sivanandan about how he saw the integration debate.
22 May 2006 (1723 words)
Return to Kirkuk
In this interview, Karzan Sherabayani, a Kurdish actor and filmmaker, says why he returned to the Kurdish region of Iraq to make his latest film and what he and other Iraqi Kurds think about the recent forced deportations to Iraq.
1 February 2006 (1827 words)
Fighting racism in football - the way forward
It is time that Black football players take the initiative against racism in the game, says Lord Herman Ouseley, Chairman of Kick It Out, in an interview with IRR News.
7 December 2004 (742 words)
The challenge of September 11
The events of September 11 and their aftermath, in terms of government policy, have thrown up a series of contradictions for anti-racists about freedom of expression, human rights, religion and Islam, in particular.
1 December 2001 (1863 words)
The fight against racist science
An interview with Steven Rose
1 June 1996 (1014 words)
Black America today
CARF spoke to Barbara Ransby, leading Black feminist and co-founder of African American women in Defense of Ourselves, about recent events in the US.
1 December 1995 (823 words)