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Islamophobia: Meta-Narratives and Localized Discourses of the Muslim ‘Other’ Post-9/11

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Part of the book series: Transgressions: Cultural Studies and Education ((TRANS,volume 5))

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Monday, November 16, 2015. It was an ordinary day in Toronto, Ontario; Canada’s largest city and one of the most culturally diverse cities in North America. A young mother is on her way to pick up her children from Grenoble public school. As the streets are filled with a beautiful mélange of leaves with beaming hues of red, orange and yellow, she decides to walk to the school, while enjoying the cool Canadian Fall weather. However, today, despite its mundane routines would be different for this mother.

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Bakali, N. (2016). Introduction. In: Islamophobia. Transgressions: Cultural Studies and Education, vol 5. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-779-5_1

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