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Shada Islam

The Guardian

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The EU can’t replace the US as a global player until it sheds its own colonial thinking

29.04.2025 40

The Guardian

Shada Islam

Integrate? Europe’s Muslims are damned if we do and damned if we don’t

Reporting on the rise of anti-Muslim hostility across Europe means repeatedly hearing generalisations about Europe’s 25 million Muslims. We are –...

02.01.2025 70

The Guardian

Shada Islam

Look at this photo of Ursula von der Leyen’s new team – and tell me the EU doesn’t have a diversity problem

As Ursula von der Leyen sweet-talked and bullied EU leaders to send more women to Brussels over recent weeks, I kept hoping she would also make her...

08.10.2024 10

The Guardian

Shada Islam

There’s a lesson for the EU from Britain’s riots: do more to prevent hatred and division – or violence follows

European Union officials watched from the sidelines as racist violence fuelled by the far right spread across British cities earlier this month....

28.08.2024 30

The Guardian

Shada Islam