On July 20th, 2015 publicist and columnist Sandew of the Surinamese news website Star News, wrote an open letter to the Surinamese President Bouterse who had won the elections on May 25th and had received an absolute majority in parliament. With the title The truth sets us free, he called on Bouterse to testify about the…
Hatem Bazian
Dr. Hatem Bazian is a lecturer in the Departments of Near Eastern and Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies, Editor-in-Chief of the Islamophobia Studies Journal and Director of the Islamophobia Research and Documentation Project at UC Berkeley Center for Race and Gender at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Bazian a co-founder of Zaytuna College,…
Upcoming release: Palestine – It’s something colonial
Hatem Bazian from the University of California Berkeley provides a decolonial analysis of the most pressing struggle in the world in an extensive study of the occupation of Palestine . The book’s subtitle is taken directly from the letter of Theoder Herzl, the founder of modern political Zionism, to Great Britain’s Minister of Colonies Cecil…
Arzu Merali joins editorial board of the series Decolonizing The Mind
The Hague, September 21, 2016 The book series Decolonizing The Mind welcomes Arzu Merali as a new editor of the book series Decolonizing The Mind. The editorial board now consists of Sandew Hira, director of the International Institute for Scientific Research, Prof. Stephen Small from the University of California Berkeley and Arzu Merali. Arzu Merali…
In progress: Decolonizing The Mind – Imagining a New World Civilization
Sandew Hira, director of the International Institute for Scientific Research in The Hague, is currently working on his new publication: Decolonizing The Mind (DTM) – Imagining a New World Civilization. A Fundamental Critique of Scientific Colonialism and Another Discourse of Liberation. This voluminous study aims to develop a theoretical framework for the concept of Decolonizing The Mind…
Upcoming release: 20 Questions and Answers on Black Europe
Stephen Small from the University of California and independent researcher Kwame Nimako are writing a book in the series 20 Questions and Answers. Their book is on Black Europe. In Europe today, racism still rules, racial inequality still rises, and Black people are still regarded as permanent strangers. Black people are neglected, marginalized and ignored. If…
New release: 20 Questions and Answers about Islam and Women
Moroccan theologist Asma Lamrabet has published a book in series 20 Questions and Answers. Her book 20 Questions and Answers about Islam and Women deals with questions like “Are men and women unequal in Islam?”, “How does the Qur’an talk about women?”, “Do men have authority over women in Islam?”, “Why do women inherit half…
Sebieren Hassenmahomed
Levens van vreugde en verdriet: Sebieren Hassenmahomed interviewed many Hindustani women about their lives. The women talk openly about their youth, parents, upbringing, education, love, faith, sexuality, marriage, family life, relatives, expectations within the community for men and women, migration to and life in the Netherlands. Some stories are sad, others humorous: life stories and experiences…
Stephen Small
Prof. Stephen Small has taught in the Department of African American Studies since 1994. He received his B.A. (honours) in Economics and Sociology from the University of Kent at Canterbury, his MS.C in Social Sciences, from the University of Bristol (both in the UK), and his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley….
Asma Lamrabet
Asma Lamrabet is trained in medicine and worked as a volunteer doctor in Spain and Latin America. In 1995 she started working in mainly Chile and Mexico for eight. There she came into contact with Liberation Theology, which caused her to examine her own religion. From 2004 until 2007, she returned to Morocco, where she…