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Interview with Intissar Kherigi on ENAR’s Forgotten Women project

Intissar Kherigi, ENAR Board member and member of the Forum of European Muslim Youth and Student Organisations (FEMYSO), tells us more about the Forgotten Women project, ENAR’s latest project aimed to document the disproportionate effect of Islamophobia on women and develop alliances between the anti-racism and feminist movements in order to better address the intersectional discrimination affecting Muslim women.

Can you tell us more about the Forgotten Women project and what it hopes to achieve?

Over the last decade, Muslim women have become the prime targets of Islamophobic hate crime and discrimination.

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In France, for example, 81.5% of Islamophobic acts in 2014 targeted Muslim women and in the UK in 2014, up to 70% of victims of Islamophobia were Muslim women. This clearly shows us that Islamophobia is a strongly gendered form of discrimination. The Forgotten Women project seeks to tackle this t intissar kherigi biography of albert1 KEREF