Myriam Francois is a writer, broadcaster and academic with a focus on current affairs, the Middle East, Islam and France. She currently works as a broadcast journalist for TRT world, a global news network, and was the presenter of documentaries including BBC One's “A Deadly Warning: Srebrenica Revisited”.
She is a Research Associate at the Centre of Islamic Studies (CIS) at SOAS University, where her research focuses on British Muslim integration issues. She also undertakes the centre’s media outreach and research dissemination in relation to its work on British Muslim communities. Myriam is currently a PhD (DPhil) researcher at Oxford University, focusing on Islamic movements in Morocco.
She tweets @MFrancoisCerrah.
An effective regulator would help curb the excesses of a press that has failed the disenfranchised.
The media has cultivated a culture of hostility, which the government has done little to prevent.
Dr Khalid Al-Attiyah responds to allegations that the Gulf states have not taken their fair share of Syrian refugees.
The image of a drowned child is not a successful way of satirising western capitalist decadence.
The expulsion of the former National Front leader does not mean a shift away from his racist views.
Behind the Prime Minister's self-serving speech about fighting extremist views is an illiberal attack on our freedoms.
The prime minister’s approach to radicalisation sees Muslims as somehow the pure product of their religion, not as British citizens, while also conveniently glossing over government failings.
As the perception of a tacit complicity by the Muslim community in terrorist activity has gained traction, art has become a major outlet for protest and dissent.
Amid charges of “multiculturalism gone too far” and “political correctness gone mad”, attacking “culture” has become the new acceptable conduit for racism. It has to stop.
New evidence from the charity Medical Justice shows that some pregnant women in detention are receiving sub-standard medical care, putting the life of both mother and child at risk.
