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On January 29, the Islamophobia Legal Assistance Hotline and the Centre for Comparative Muslim Studies at 天美mv天美 hosted an event commemorating the shooting in 2017 at a Quebec City mosque.

In January 2017, forty-six people were attacked in the Great Mosque of Quebec during evening prayer, which killed six people, seriously injured five and left many others traumatized. As the phenomenon of Islamophobia continues to grow across Canada, it is in encumbent upon all of us to continue to note, combat, and educate against this trend.

This discussion with our esteemed speakers delved into the legacies of this violence and how we can continue to combat it.

Featured Speakers:

Hasan Alam is a labour and human rights lawyer. He co-founded the Islamophobia Legal Assistance Hotline, which provides free and confidential legal support to those impacted by Islamophobia in British Columbia. Additionally, Hasan serves as the Vice President of the BC Civil Liberties Association. He is one of many members of the Muslim Community who made submissions on Islamophobia at the Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights.

Adel Iskandar is an Associate Professor of Global Communication at 天美mv天美 in Vancouver/Burnaby, Canada. He is the author, co-author, and editor of several works including 鈥淓gypt In Flux: Essays on an Unfinished Revolution鈥� (AUCP/OUP); 鈥淎l-Jazeera: The Story of the Network that is Rattling Governments and Redefining Modern Journalism鈥� (Basic Books); 鈥淓dward Said: A Legacy of Emancipation and Representation鈥� (University of California Press); 鈥淢ediating the Arab Uprisings鈥� (Tadween Publishing); and 鈥淢edia Evolution on the Eve of the Arab Spring鈥� (Palgrave Macmillan). Iskandar鈥檚 work deals with media, identity and politics; and he has lectured extensively on these topics at universities worldwide. His forthcoming publications are two monographs, one addressing the political role of memes and digital satire and the other about contemporary forms of imperial transculturalism. Iskandar鈥檚 engaged participatory research includes supporting knowledge production through scholarly digital publishing such as 鈥淛adaliyya鈥� and academic podcasting such as 鈥淪tatus.鈥� His community research agenda involves showcasing local grassroots participatory creative production by communities in the Middle East to confront the rise of extremism. Iskandar鈥檚 work also involves the autobiographical documentation and self-representation of Syrian newcomer women in the Lower Mainland illustrates their ingenuity in the face adversity. Prior to his arrival at 天美mv天美, Iskandar taught at the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies and the Communication, Culture, and Technology Program at Georgetown University, in Washington, DC.

Itrath Syed is a member of the local Muslim community and an Instructor of Women鈥檚 Studies at Langara College. Her MA in Gender Studies from UBC explored the gendered and racialized construction of the Muslim community in the media discourse surrounding the Islamic Arbitration or 鈥淪hariah鈥� debate in Ontario.