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Farid Farid

Farid

Farid Farid is a journalist and scholar based in Berlin. His work has appeared in Le Monde Diplomatique, Al Jazeera English, the Sydney Morning Herald and the New Statesman.

Less than a week after the Paris attacks, this week’s Pegida march in Dresden saw a record turn-out for the German anti-immigrant movement. The city's Muslims are wary.

15 January, 2015

Al-Araby al-Jadeed tracks the social media response to the events in Paris.

07 January, 2015

When a gunman held 17 people hostage in a Sydney cafe, Australia stopped. But this act should not be seen in isolation - any reaction to this act should consider wider attitudes to race and violence.

17 December, 2014

Social media has played an instant and integral role in relaying events as they occur and tracing reactions from shock to fear to condemnation and ultimately solidarity with Australia’s diverse Arab and Muslim communities.

15 December, 2014

You Know I Do Not Remember, a play by Wael Ali, brings to life the experiences of dissidents held in Assad's prisons before the revolution began.

28 November, 2014