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PAIS PhD candidate Aaliyah Hussain has written an article for the Huffington Post titled 'Why British Muslims Hate Extremism More Than You Do.'

According to Theresa May’s speech in response to the terrorist attack in London on Saturday night, we need to have ‘difficult and embarrassing conversations’ about ‘Islamist’ extremism and radicalisation. In saying so, I felt that she was insinuating that the Muslim community has up until now been shying away from the issue at best, and being complicit with terrorism at worst. In my view, it is an insult and an indication of utter ignorance to suggest that Muslims in Britain are afraid of talking about terrorism or confronting radicalisation. Let’s get one thing straight - British Muslims hate terrorism and extremism as much British non-Muslims, if not more, and we talk about it a lot more.

Want a glimpse at how Thursday's general election will turn out? by , Mary Stegmaier (University of Missouri) and Mike Lewis-Beck (University of Iowa).

They discuss whether people rather than pollsters can accurately predict Thursday's UK election. Based on their "citizen forecasting" approach, they predict the following:

• Conservatives 361 seats, Labour 236 seats.
• Probability of a Conservative majority 77%, hung parliament led by Conservatives 20%, hung parliament led by Labour 2%, and Labour majority 1%.

Two MOMA exhibiting artists Heide Fasnacht and Jenny Perlin (New School, New York), performed and exhibited segments of their work in the Humanities Studio on Friday and Saturday 19-20 May 2017. The event was organised by and and funded by the Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS), PAIS and the New School.

Both artists delivered new performance lectures on their work, and the two-days event featured an interdisciplinary conversation with artists and academics working on art, politics, and material geography. Further information can be found on , and photographic impressions of Fasnacht’s work are currently on display in the PAIS common room.

has recently been interviewed for the BBC Radio 4 programme 'Beyond Belief' about Islam in Germany.

Other contributors to the episode include James Hodkinson and Silke Horstkotte of the Department of German and the Anglican Bishop of Leeds, Nick Baines.

You can listen to the programme on the BBC website:

has written for the International Feminist Journal of Politics' Conversations section, in which she reflects on her experience of conducting fieldwork, on non-state armed actors in Lebanon, while being accompanied by her daughter.

You can read the article here: