Jasmin Zine - IISRA Vice President

Institutional Bio

  • (IISRA Vice President)

    Jasmin Zine  is a Professor of Sociology and Religion & Culture at Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario, Canada. Her recent book, Under Siege: Islamophobia and the 9/11 Generation (2022, McGill -Queens University Press) explores the experiences of the millennial generation of Canadian Muslim youth who came of age during the global war on terror and times of heightened anti-Muslim racism. Under Siege was named on the Hill Times list of Best 100 Books of 2022. She is author of a major report on the Canadian Islamophobia industry: Mapping Islamophobia's Eco-System in the Great White North (2022) in partnership with the Islamophobia Studies Center and the Islamophobia Research and Development Project at the University of California, Berkeley. The report documents the networks of hate and bigotry that orchestrate, organize, purvey, and monetize Islamophobia in Canada.

  • Her edited books include Islam in the Hinterlands: Muslim Cultural Politics in Canada (University of British Columbia, 2012) and Muslim Women Transnational Feminism and the Ethics of Pedagogy: Contested Imaginaries in Post 9/11 Cultural Practice (Routledge, 2014, with L. K Taylor).

  • Dr. Zine has served as a consultant on combating Islamophobia for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the Council of Europe (COE), and the Office for the Democratic Institutions and Human Rights at the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (ODHIR/OSCE). She is a sought-after media commentator and has given numerous invited talks and keynotes in dozens of countries internationally. Dr. Zine is co-founder and Vice President of the International Islamophobia Studies Research Association (IISRA).