Oussama Cherribi
Cherribi is often interviewed by news organizations on developments in European and Middle East and North African (MENA) regions, and is an often-invited public speaker.
[2] As a member of the Standing Committee on Higher Education, Cherribi introduced legislation on comprehensive cultural training for imams in the Netherlands and Europe.
A part of the Duplex Ordo program, this legislation encouraged imams living in the Netherlands to become educated on secular topics in order to facilitate positive relations between the Muslim community and Dutch society at-large.
[5] In 1995, in an effort to bring politics to the people, Cherribi founded Den Haag-Online, a Dutch-language discussion board that allowed citizens to communicate with Members of Parliament via cyberspace.
[8] As a Dutch MP, Cherribi hosted and moderated numerous other panels and conferences, both within the EU (North South Center) and abroad.
As a response to the Rushdie Affair, participating cities were to cooperate in assisting and welcoming persecuted writers from around the world into Europe, in order to promote free thought.
According to its mission, the cities’ "priority task today is to respond to censorship by creating new areas of freedom, exchange and solidarity" for at-risk writers and thinkers.
This book, published by Oxford University Press, discusses "‘the trifecta of coercion’ on Muslims in the Netherlands and Europe, being: expectations and pressures from Islamic orthodoxy, from European society, and from their daily lives in the house of war (Dar al Harb).
[14] In 2017, Oxford Press published Cherribi's Fridays of Rage, an in-depth analysis of Al Jazeera’s inception and its role in impacting the public views of the Arab world.
[15] The book was praised by Marwan M. Kraidy, professor of communication at the University of Pennsylvania, for making "an original contribution to the already large literature on Al-Jazeera in its articulation of the channel with political Islamism".
[16] Cherribi has repeatedly contributed to Der Groene Amsterdammer, including interviews with President Jimmy Carter and Jane Fonda, and essays on Al Jazeera and Pierre Bourdieu.
