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Habiba Farh

Research Analyst

Habiba Farh is a research analyst at Political Research Associates monitoring legislation and discourses addressing hate crimes, terrorism, and extremism. She has written on intergenerational political Repression occurs when public or private institutions—such as law enforcement agencies or vigilante groups—use arrest, physical coercion, or violence to subjugate a specific group. Learn more on historically marginalized communities in the U.S., Arab-American diasporic politics, U.S. foreign policy on the Middle East, and A form of religious bigotry, with strong racial components, that scapegoats & demonizes Muslims and those perceived to be Muslim. Learn more and anti-Arab An attitude toward social identities that can be mobilized to justify discrimination, state/vigilante violence, and exploitation. Learn more in American policy and law.

Articles

Religion Dispatches
To help readers navigate this pivotal election, RD is collaborating with PRA’s research team to provide short, timely posts, with a special emphasis on far-right organizing and election interference…
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Public Eye
The Institutional Policing of Dissent
In this commentary on the state’s use of the “outside agitator” narrative to violently repress progressive movements, Habiba Farh examines how “the powerful choose authoritarian control” to secure their rule over democratic challenges to their legitimacy.
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Religion Dispatches
Religion Dispatches’s sibling publication, The Public Eye—a quarterly magazine for analysis and commentary on the U.S. and Global Right—is back! To celebrate The Public Eye’s return, Religion…
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