Nilufer Gole

Nilufer Gole is professor of sociology at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris and the director of Europublicislam: Islam in the Making of a European Public Sphere. She is the author of Islam in Europe: The Lure of Fundamentalism and the Allure of Cosmopolitanism (Marcus Weiner, Princeton, 2010)

The Gezi Occupation: for a democracy of public spaces

“Respect” has become a new slogan tagged on walls all over the cities, and expressing the need for a return to civility and call for politeness in Turkish public life. Gezi occupation reveals to us all, how “public square” becomes literally vital for our democracies.

By Nilufer Gole

/ 11 Jun 2013

French elections: what does normal stand for?

The vote for Hollande is not so much a radical desire for change as a possibly illusory desire to go back to the pre-crisis period. The socialists have meanwhile opened up a new approach to the economy. But 'racism from above' has led the way in this historic fight over what is normal

By Nilufer Gole

/ 11 May 2012

Idols & Insults: writing, religion, and freedom of expression

The "Idols & Insults: Writing, Religion, and Freedom of Expression" event took place in April 2006 as part of the PEN New York World Voices festival. For more

By Tariq Ramadan, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Upamanyu Chatterjee, Ian Buruma, Juan Luis Cebrián and Nilufer Gole

/ 25 May 2006