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New Article: Muslim communities in Australia and the ‘mainstreaming’ of outer-group suspicion and apprehension

Jan 12, 2021 | UNITWIN Network

Harmony Day is celebrated in Australian annually on 21 March. (Image: Harmony Day Australia, 2010/ DIAC) Professor Fethi Mansouri has written an article that was recently published in the Melbourne Asia Review. The article looks at how Muslims tend to be characterised...

Journal Article: Young Muslim Australians’ experiences of intergroup contact and its implications for intercultural relations

Jan 12, 2021 | Publications

New Journal Article by Professor Fethi Mansouri, Professor Ihsan Yilmaz, Dr Ana-Maria Bliuc and Dr Galib Bashirov. Literature on intergroup contact shows that in the absence of the required structural conditions, contact is not necessarily always a positive experience...

Radio Interview: The normalisation of Arab states with Israel and its implications for the Palestinian cause

Dec 17, 2020 | Radio interview, UNITWIN Network

Professor Fethi Mansouri was recently interviewed on SBS Arabic 24 radio on the normalisation of Arab states with Israel and its implications for the Palestinian cause. The interview, conducted by Iman Riman and Manal al-Ani in Arabic, can be accessed by clicking...

Radio Interview: Aggressive secularism exacerbates religious tensions in France

Nov 27, 2020 | Radio interview, UNITWIN Network

Following on from his recent article co-authored with Professor Greg Barton and published on ABC’s Religion and Ethics online, Professor Fethi Mansouri was interviewed on 25 November 2020 by Andrew West from On The Religion and Ethics Report on ABC Radio National,...

Opinion Piece: Muslims are not the problem, and critics are not the enemy: How aggressive secularism is dividing France

Nov 18, 2020 | UNITWIN Network

Professor Fethi Mansouri recently had an opinion piece published on the ABC Religion & Ethics website. The article, co-authored with Professor Greg Barton, Chair in Global Islamic Politics at Deakin University, looks at recent terrorism attacks in France and their...

Online Seminar: “Intercultural Dialogue as a European Project”

Nov 18, 2020 | Seminar, UNESCO, UNITWIN Network

Online Seminar details are provided by Associate Professor Despoina Anagnostopoulou, UNESCO Chair on Intercultural Policy for an Active Citizenship and Solidarity. This seminar series will be held on the following Monday evenings: 16, 23, 30 November and 7 & 14...

International e-Conference: “The Role of Intercultural Dialogue in Managing Diversity in Europe”

Nov 18, 2020 | Conference, Event, UNITWIN Network

Conference details are provided by Associate Professor Despoina Anagnostopoulou, UNESCO Chair on Intercultural Policy for an Active Citizenship and Solidarity International e-Conference titled, ‘The role of Intercultural Dialogue in managing diversity in...

New Journal Article: Psychological Peculiarities of Shiite Muslims in Russia: Factor Analysis

Nov 18, 2020 | Publications

Professor Dimitri Spivak, UNESCO Chair in Comparative Studies of Spiritual Traditions, their Specific Cultures and Interreligious Dialogue is pleased to advise his journal article titled, ‘Psychological Peculiarities of Shiite Muslims in Russia: Factor...

Professor Fethi Mansouri is elected as a fellow to Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia

Nov 18, 2020 | News, UNITWIN Network

Professor Fethi Mansouri, UNESCO Chair on Comparative Research on Cultural Diversity and Social Justice, was this week named one of 38 new fellows elected this year to the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. “This is more than a personal honour but...
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