What it means to be a Muslim New Zealander in 2019

Faisal Halabi – an Arab, a Muslim, and a New Zealander – reckons with what all those identities mean for him.  I’m sitting in my London flat, thinking about the distance between myself and New Zealand. It’s just over 18,000km. I’m also thinking about the distances between the different identities I’ve balanced growing up in New Zealand: … Read more

We do not shed our skin: why all politics are identity politics

In this edited version of her speech at the Hamilton Press Club last Friday, Green MP Golriz Ghahraman recounts her journey from a childhood in Iran to becoming the first refugee elected to the NZ parliament, and why identity is at the heart of democracy Being a Middle Eastern woman is a strangely over-burdened birth … Read more