Musab Iqbal joins a TRT World Forum roundtable on racism, culture wars, and the polarisation of global politics

In an interconnected and interdependent world, challenges to social cohesion, whether based on race, religion, culture or ethnicity, can no longer be considered purely as an internal matter and must be accounted for at the international level. This Expert Roundtable session discussed the interplay between race, culture wars and political polarisation at the local and global levels.

Moderator: Talip Küçükcan, Professor of Sociology at Marmara University, Senior Fellow, TRT World Research Centre

Experts:

• Salman Sayyid, Professor of Social Theory and Decolonial Thought and the Head of the School of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Leeds Alvaro
• Rodriguez, UN Officer in Charge in Turkey
• Khaled A. Beydoun, Law Professor, Wayne State University
• Nadia Abu-Zahra, Associate Professor and the Joint Chair in Women’s Studies, University of Ottawa and Carleton University

Discussants:

• Sahar Khamis, Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Maryland, College Park
• Maryyum Mehmood, Associate Director, Edward Cadbury Centre for the Public Understanding of Religion, University of Birmingham
• Khadijah Alshayyal, Associate Fellow, the Alwaleed Centre Zeynep Koç, Researcher
• Musab Iqbal, Lecturer, Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI), University of Westminster