00:00 – This video is not sponsored by Pirelli

00:13 – Is more power more better?

01:30 – The problem with wanting power at any cost

09:39 – Does representation change anything? Discussing Mo Salah, Zidane, Riz Ahmed, Sadek Hamid, Abbas Zahedi and Hamja Ahsan

22:49 – Why do people still believe in representation?

27:22 – How to stay in check: Removing veils and slowing down

31:05 – Good examples

31:36 – Amatullah: how a group of young Muslim women organising soup kitchens turned an islamophobic city council into allies

33:56 – Rabiah Mali and the Rabbani Project: how a bunch of friends are sensibilising Muslims to the environment where big charities have failed

38:17 – Rumi’s Cave

40:00 – What can we do? Preventing harm and correcting people: techniquesIdeas about alternative ways of giving zakat

45:16 - Recap

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WHO ARE WE?

William is a Sociology Researcher at the University of Warwick working on Muslim experiences in Europe and North America.Javayria works in Higher Education and has a History degree from SOAS in South Asian History

REFERENCES:Sadek Hamid’s Academia page:https://oxford.academia.edu/DrSadekHamidAbbas Zahedihttps://abbzah.com/ Hamja AhsanDocumenta Fifteen: https://documenta-fifteen.de/en/lumbung-members-artists/hamja-ahsan/Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamja_Ahsan Amatullahhttps://amatullah.fr/ Rabbani Project and Pearls of Islamhttps://www.therabbaniproject.com/ https://www.pearlsofislam.co.uk/about-us Rumi’s Cavehttps://www.rumis.org/ Young Muslim Change-Makers: Grassroots Charities Rethinking Modern Societies. London: Routledge, 2017https://www.routledge.com/Young-Muslim-Change-Makers-Grassroots-Charities-Rethinking-Modern-Societies/Barylo/p/book/9781138054158Bulhan, Hussein A. 2015. “Stages of Colonialism in Africa: From Occupation of Land to Occupation of Being,” Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 3(1): 239–56. “Neo-Liberal Not-For-Profits: The Embracing of Corporate Culture in European Muslim Charities,” Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, Volume 36, number 3, August 2016, pp 383-398My presentation at Zaytuna:Muslims in the West: Embodying the Change – Zaytuna Collegehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfrCbsJDf-YThe Study about Mo Salah reducing IslamophobiaAlrababa'h, Ala', William Marble, Salma Mousa, and Alexandra A. Siegel. 2019. “Can Exposure to Celebrities Reduce Prejudice? the Effect of Mohamed Salah on Islamophobic Behaviors and Attitudes.” SocArXiv. May 31https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/eq8ca/

00:00 – Intro

00:49 – Being privileged doesn’t make you immune

02:35 – if you find yourself in an environment in which you beg for validation

04:30 – Javayria about Code Switching

06:38 – Using power to include others

07:40 – Metacolonialism: when code-switching becomes permanent

12:32 – Extravert vs Intravert

16:15 – How I got manipulated to give someone £3,000 to be accepted

18:31 – Confidence vs Arrogance and why arrogance gets people ahead

20:02 – Blending and staying safe vs being yourself and filtering out people?

22:01 – What about Muslims working in structures that openly practice racism?

23:43 – What is considered as “normal” is changing: how IQ became obsolete

25:28 – People we seek validation from also seek validation, and create harmful spaces

27:00 - How to tell the difference between someone solid and someone who’s hot air?

29:55 - Three Cs: Compassion, Critical Thinking and Commitment.

32:43 - The most beautiful people are those who overcome the most difficult things in life

36:33 - How not to wake up when you’re 40 and realise you’ve wasted your life

Subscribe to my newsletter for Live conversations and events near you: https://william-barylo.kit.com/b11fac1fdc

WHO ARE WE?

William is a Sociology Researcher at the University of Warwick working on Muslim experiences in Europe and North America.Javayria works in Higher Education and has a History degree from SOAS in South Asian History

REFERENCESBulhan, Hussein A. 2015. “Stages of Colonialism in Africa: From Occupation of Land to Occupation of Being,” Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 3(1): 239–56.Friedman, Sam, and Daniel Laurison. The Class Ceiling : Why it Pays to be Privileged, Bristol Policy Press, 2019.

00:00 – Intro

02:07 – How we were taught Islam

16:27 – Why people leave the religion

17:22 – Why people are two-faced?

23:43 – What are the causes of mislearning?

- South Asian Culture?- Salafism?- British Culture?

30:14 – What if Islam was taught chronologically?

35:47 - RecapSubscribe to my newsletter for Live conversations and events near you: https://william-barylo.kit.com/b11fac1fdc WHO ARE WE?

William is a Sociology Researcher at the University of Warwick working on Muslim experiences in Europe and North America.Javayria works in Higher Education and has a History degree from SOAS in South Asian HistoryREFERENCES

Hadith about the cathttps://sunnah.com/bukhari:2365

Moving in and Out of Islam, edited by Karin van Nieuwkerk, University of Texas Press 2018https://utpress.utexas.edu/books/van-nieuwkerk-moving-in-and-out-of-islam

Young, Muslim and Criminal by Mohammed Qasim, Bristol University Press, 2018https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/young-muslim-and-criminal

MBS about how the funding of mosques and madrassas was seen by the US as a defense against the Russians and Iran during the Cold Warhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/saudi-prince-denies-kushner-is-in-his-pocket/2018/03/22/701a9c9e-2e22-11e8-8688-e053ba58f1e4_story.html

https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2018/04/19/the-saudi-export-of-ultra-conservatism-in-the-era-of-mbs-an-update/

https://www.newsclick.in/saudi-crown-prince-america-asked-us-spread-ideology-isis

00:00 – The harm we observe

05:00 – Learning the context

06:39 – Language is key to connecting with a place

09:39 – The best people to meet

10:48 – The importance of slowing down to create content

13:43 – Quality travel content is about quality bonds

14:34 – The best places to stay: with people

20:24 – Best ways of respecting people and places, shooting respectful documentaries

23:14 – the importance of not ignoring feedback

27:17 – Give and share: sadaqa is not only money

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REFERENCES

Your new favourite travel website https://www.sacredfootsteps.org/

Muslims in the West: Embodying the Change – Zaytuna Collegehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfrCbsJDf-Y

Young Muslim Change-Makers: Grassroots Charities Rethinking Modern Societies. London: Routledge, 2017https://www.routledge.com/Young-Muslim-Change-Makers-Grassroots-Charities-Rethinking-Modern-Societies/Barylo/p/book/9781138054158