Episode 38, 20 MIN 20 SEC , MP3 FORMAT
Plight of Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon
"So, today, [in] a lot of the camps, most UN officials and Lebanese sources would say up to 50% of the people in the camps are children." - Dr Kylie Baxter
 Kylie Baxter Kylie Baxter's PhD explored the experience of a London-based pan-Islamist organization, al-Muhajiroun. This organization was active between the mid-1990s and 2004 and provided a compelling insight into the difficulties associated with the propagation of an Islamist perspective in a Western nation-state. Currently, Dr Baxter's research focus is on the Arab-Israeli conflict and Palestinian politics. |
USEFUL LINKS
Publications
Books
- Baxter, K., British Muslims and the Call to Global Jihad, Monash Asia Institute Press, Melbourne, 2007
Book Chapters
- "Islam in the West: Tariq Ramadan and Euro-Islam", in Benjamin MacQueen, Kylie Baxter & Rebecca Barlow (eds), Islam and the Question of Reform: Views from the Periphery (Monash Asia Institute Press, forthcoming).
- "Al-Muhajiroun and the covenant of security", in Fethi Mansouri and Shahram Akbarzadeh (eds) Political Islam and Human Security(Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2006).
Journals
- "From Migrants to Citizens: Muslims in Britain 1950s to 1990s",Immigrants and Minorities (Forthcoming, 2006).
- Co-authored with Shahram Akbarzadeh, "Sharing an Illusion: The OIC and Palestine", Middle East Policy, Vol. 12, No.2 (2005), pp. 79-92
- "Islamism in the West: The life-span of al-Muhajiroun, Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, Vol. 25, No. 1 (2005), pp.117-134.
CREDITS
Host: Jacky Angus
Producers: Kelvin Param and Eric van Bemmel
Audio Engineer: Craig McArthur
Theme Music performed by Sergio Ercole. Mr Ercole is represented by the Musicians' Agency, Faculty of Music
Voiceover: Paul Richiardi
Series Creators: Eric van Bemmel and Kelvin Param
Melbourne University Up Close is brought to you by the Marketing and Communications Division in association with Asia Institute.
Producers: Kelvin Param and Eric van Bemmel
Audio Engineer: Craig McArthur
Theme Music performed by Sergio Ercole. Mr Ercole is represented by the Musicians' Agency, Faculty of Music
Voiceover: Paul Richiardi
Series Creators: Eric van Bemmel and Kelvin Param
Melbourne University Up Close is brought to you by the Marketing and Communications Division in association with Asia Institute.
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All together a very well informed presentation by Ms. Kylie Baxter. However, the host Ms. Jacky Angus took a very biased position, which was dissapointing to see given that she is the host!!
balanced approach
I have to say I found the podcast to be quite balanced on the whole. I believe it's the host's responsibility to challenge the guest a bit, particularly on such a vexed topic, and that is just what she did.