Fatima Ahdash
Biographic Data
| ID | 5579096 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fatima Ahdash |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fatima |
| FAMILY NAME | Ahdash |
| SIGNATURE | AHDASH F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hamad bin Khalifa University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6284-3159 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Militant Secularism Comes to Britain
In this article, we critique the English High Court’s decision in R (On the Application of TTT ) v Michaela Community School , where a school’s ban on ritual prayers during school hours was upheld. Subjecting the case to a close and critical analysis, we contend that the reasoning and rhetoric in this case reflect enduring racialised conceptions of Islam and Muslim identity and resurrect dismissive (post)colonial juridical approaches to Islamic j…
Childhood radicalisation and the Law in the UK
This article reflects on a decade of family court involvement in response to the issue of childhood radicalisation, focusing on the UK. After excavating and outlining this new family law-focused landscape of counter-terrorism, the article highlights and discusses several important themes, issues and questions that have emerged from this legal development, focusing on some of its more problematic implications from the perspective of human rights, …
The Unbearable Arabness of Being
One unseasonably cold night in the middle of August 1997, I arrived in the UK with my parents and siblings as a refugee from Libya. Even though I was very young, I understood intimately and painfully exactly what the perilous journey my family had made meant. My parents were honest: we were escaping the Libyan regime’s violent crackdown on all forms of political dissent—which had already claimed the lives of many relatives and friends—and we were…
The familialization of terrorism and the securitization of the family
This article examines the recent proliferation of gendered narratives underpinning and shaping counter‐terrorism laws, policies, and practices. Looking specifically at the United Kingdom, there has been shift in the place of women and gender within international and national security discourses and practices, from historic absence to contemporary presence and influence. The article identifies and critiques some of the gendered and racialized trop…
Countering Terrorism in the Family Courts
This article critically appraises the implications of the recent emergence of radicalisation cases in the family courts of England and Wales and the involvement of the family justice system in preventing and countering terrorism. It identifies, and takes issue with, a dominant narrative found in case‐law, practitioner commentaries, think‐tank reports and academic and government literature, which regards the radicalisation cases as a positive lega…
Countering Terrorism in the Family Courts
This article critically appraises the implications of the recent emergence of radicalisation cases in the family courts of England and Wales and the involvement of the family justice system in preventing and countering terrorism. It identifies, and takes issue with, a dominant narrative found in case‐law, practitioner commentaries, think‐tank reports and academic and government literature, which regards the radicalisation cases as a positive lega…
Countering Terrorism in the Family Courts
This article critically appraises the implications of the recent emergence of radicalisation cases in the family courts of England and Wales and the involvement of the family justice system in preventing and countering terrorism. It identifies, and takes issue with, a dominant narrative found in case‐law, practitioner commentaries, think‐tank reports and academic and government literature, which regards the radicalisation cases as a positive lega…
The familialization of terrorism and the securitization of the family
This article examines the recent proliferation of gendered narratives underpinning and shaping counter‐terrorism laws, policies, and practices. Looking specifically at the United Kingdom, there has been shift in the place of women and gender within international and national security discourses and practices, from historic absence to contemporary presence and influence. The article identifies and critiques some of the gendered and racialized trop…
The Unbearable Arabness of Being
One unseasonably cold night in the middle of August 1997, I arrived in the UK with my parents and siblings as a refugee from Libya. Even though I was very young, I understood intimately and painfully exactly what the perilous journey my family had made meant. My parents were honest: we were escaping the Libyan regime’s violent crackdown on all forms of political dissent—which had already claimed the lives of many relatives and friends—and we were…
Militant Secularism Comes to Britain
In this article, we critique the English High Court’s decision in R (On the Application of TTT ) v Michaela Community School , where a school’s ban on ritual prayers during school hours was upheld. Subjecting the case to a close and critical analysis, we contend that the reasoning and rhetoric in this case reflect enduring racialised conceptions of Islam and Muslim identity and resurrect dismissive (post)colonial juridical approaches to Islamic j…
Childhood radicalisation and the Law in the UK
This article reflects on a decade of family court involvement in response to the issue of childhood radicalisation, focusing on the UK. After excavating and outlining this new family law-focused landscape of counter-terrorism, the article highlights and discusses several important themes, issues and questions that have emerged from this legal development, focusing on some of its more problematic implications from the perspective of human rights, …
Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Terrorism (3 works) · Criminology (2 works) · Family law (2 works) · Human rights (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Narrative (2 works) · Religious Freedom and Discrimination (2 works)