The International Centre for Muslim and non-Muslim Understanding (MnM) seeks to understand the root causes of the differences between the Muslim and non-Muslim communities and to pioneer ways of bridging the divide that these differences seem to produce.
The centre promotes critical scholarship and research that helps to improve understanding and relations between Muslims and non-Muslims. It is socially engaged and contributes to both academic and public debates. It presents new ways of thinking about contemporary communities and cultures, offering us the chance to re-imagine our world.
The MnM Centre is a research concentration of the Hawke Research Institute.
What's new?
Urban dwellers and the changing city
Knowledge Works public lecture, 30 May 2013
Prof AbdouMaliq Simone
Many of today’s urban dwellers face sorrow with the loss of their homes, work and everyday life. Modern cities create specific ways of existing, thinking, seeing and claiming that are bound to no one, yet bind everyone. Sorrow then becomes a tactic ...
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The 'radical' in radical Islam
30 April 2013
By Yassir Morsi
After Boston we have witnessed the Islamophobia industry in full swing through a cadre of intellectual vendors, tweeters, bloggers, politicians and Facebook pundits. They are all quick to point at the ‘Islam’ in ‘radical Islam’ as the driving force that kills innocent children …
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Islamophobia in the wake of the Boston bombings
30 April 2013
By Chloe Patton
There have been fewer violent reprisals against Muslims after the Boston Marathon bombings than there were after 9/11, but the US 'Islamophobia industry' has still been hard at work spreading misinformation and promoting fear ...
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The Boston Marathon tragedy
17 April 2013
By Nahid Afrose Kabir
It is heartbreaking to hear that the beautiful city of Boston suffered a terrorist attack on 15 April 2013. The Australian reported that explosions killed three people and injured more than 170 people …
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Celebrating the centenary of Canberra
16 April 2013
By Nahid Afrose Kabir
The Canberra Islamic Centre (CIC) invited me to give a talk on Muslims in Australia at their Centenary of Canberra celebration on Saturday 13 April 2013. About 300 people attended the celebration …
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