Book chapters
2010 forthcoming: 'British-Asian Music and Cultural Resistance
in Contemporary Popular Music' in Rinella Cere (ed) Post-Colonial
Britain (Palgrave London)
2009: 'Radical Politics and British Muslims' in
Jonathan Pugh (ed) Radical Politics Today with
Foreword by Tony Benn (Routledge London)
2009: 'Musical Jihad' in John Storey (ed)
Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: A Reader
(4th Edition Longman London)
2008: 'My Jihad' in Sally Davison and Jonathan Rutherford (eds)
Race, Identity and Belonging (Lawrence and Wishart),
with an introduction by George Shire
[previously published in Soundings (27) 2004]
2007: 'Northern Racism: A Pilot Study of Racism in Sunderland'
in Christoph Ehland (ed) Thinking Northern:
Textures of Identity in the North of England,
(Rodopi Press: Amsterdam/New York)
Journal articles
2009:
'Israel's propaganda and its war on Gaza',
The Canadian Charger
2009:
'Malcolm X and British-Muslims: A Personal Reflection',
re-published by the Malcolm X Foundation
(originally published in The Journal of Religion and Popular Culture
vol. XVI, 2007)
2008:
'Between Marx and Muhammed: Class Politics and British Muslims',
Soundings Online Debates
2008:
'Teaching and Learning Guide for: Media, Racism and Islamophobia:
The Representation of Islam and Muslims in the Media [article previously published in Sociology Compass (1) 2007)
2007:
'Cultures of Racism', Soundings Online Debates, November
2007:
'Media, Racism and Islamophobia:
The Representation of Islam and Muslims in the Media',
Sociology Compass (1) (2007)
2007:
'Malcolm X and British-Muslims: A Personal Reflection',
The Journal of Religion and Popular Culture vol. XVI
2006: 'Western Propaganda and the War on Terrorism:
The Dangers of American Ignorance',
Public Resistance 2:1 2006 (available at
www.publicresistance.org)
2006: 'Musical Jihad', Soundings, Summer, 33
2004: 'My Jihad' Soundings, August, 27
2004: '9/11 and British Muslims'
in John Carter and David Morland (eds) Anti-Capitalist Britain
(New Clarion Press: London)
2004: 'Musical Jihad: Hip Hop Music and British-Muslims'
Jihad musical? Musique Hip-hop et musulmans en Grande-Bretagne et France'
(co-authored with Steve Cannon) in Alec G. Hargreaves (ed)
Minorités ethniques anglophones et francophones: études
culturelles comparatives (Harmattan Press)
2003: '"What's in a name?" Muhammad Ali and the Politics of
Cultural Identity', Culture, Sport and Society, 5:3, Autumn
2002: 'Muhammad Ali and the Politics of Cultural Identity'
in A. Bernstein and N. Blain (eds)
(Frank Cass London)
2002: 'A Community Under Suspicion: Riots and British Asians',
Scottish Left Review (12) September/October
Conference Papers and Invited Papers (since 2001)
2008: Hip-Hop and Islam, invited paper at
Diasporas, Migration and Identities conference, Loughborough University, July
2008: Islamophobia and Capitalism, invited paper at the
Thinking Thru' Islamophobia symposium,
Centre for Ethnicity and Racism Studies, University of Leeds, May
2006: Beyond Orientalism: Why Palestine is still the issue.
AMPE/MECSA Joint Conference, Leeds Metropolitan University, January
2005: Western Media, Islam and Jihad.
Invited paper at University of Paisley (Department of Media and Music), November
2005: Nothing But the Same Old Story Again? Scottish-Pakistani
Muslims and Scottish Irish Catholics: Islamophobia, Sectarianism and
Identity. Third Annual Irish Studies Conference,
University of Sunderland, November
2005: Western Propaganda and the War on Terrorism.
China and American Media Transformation in a Changing World conference,
Wuhan University, China, November
2005: Tupac Shakur, Black Power and Hip-Hop.
Celebrity Culture conference, University of Paisley (Ayr Campus),
September
2005: Malcolm X and British Muslims. Malcolm X Legacy Global
Perspective conference, CUNY Harlem, New York, May
2004: Racism Post 9/11 and British Muslims.
Transnational Communities and ICTs: Participation and
Citizenship conference, University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland, May
2004: Racism and British Muslims. Invited paper at University of
Teesside (Department of Sociology) April
2003: Terrorism and British Muslims. Meeting of Minds: Comparing
Migrant Experiences Across Ethnic Groups conference,
Camden Irish Centre, London, November
2003: British Muslims, Islam and the War on Terrorism.
Sacred Media - Conference On Media, Religion And Culture,
Helsinki University and Jyvskyl University, July
2002: Scottish Pakistanis: Racialisation and Islamification.
BRISHIN: British Island Stories History Identity and Nationhood,
University of York, April
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