Azad Essa: ‘Hostile Homelands’

Wednesday 21st February, 2024

5:00 pm, Queen Mary University of London

The QMUL South Asia Forum is pleased to welcome Azad Essa for a discussion of his new book Hostile Homelands: The New Alliance Between India and Israel (Pluto, 2023). The book contextualises the political and ideological links between these two countries, from the origins of Zionism and Hindutva to today’s growing military-industrial relationship.

Azad Essa is an award-winning journalist and author based between Johannesburg and New York City. He is a senior reporter for Middle East Eye, covering American foreign policy, Islamaphobia and Race in the US. Essa is author of The Moslems are Coming (HarperCollins, 2012) and Zuma’s Bastard (Two Dogs, 2011).

Azad Essa will be joined in conversation with Sharri Plonski, Senior Lecturer in International Politics at QMUL, and the event wil be chaired by Tanroop Sandhu, PhD Candidate in the School of History at QMUL.

*Please Register via TicketTailor to Receive Room Info* – This is an in-person event though Essa will join via Zoom.

Co-hosted with Peace in India and the South Asia Solidarity Group.