Hanifa Deen

I began my career as a primary teacher, high school teacher, (History and English) and taught English as a foreign language for seven years in (West) Germany before returning to Australia where I became active in human rights at both a community and, finally, at a prof...

Extract from a speech given at Box Hill Town Hall, 5thSept. 2010 to mark the Festival of Refugees, Victoria

I know many of you in the audience were once forced to make a very difficult decision that I hope I never have to make. You made your decision to leave your homel...

Extract from speech given in 2012…

long before the advent of ISIS & the latest Syrian wars.

Twenty years ago Muslims across Australia were more or less a contented lot; they had freedom of religion, could build their mosques and schools with less trouble from local coun...

Extract from my International Women’s Day Talk in Perth 2017

I see politeness as a precipice that's so easy to topple off, be pushed off — or in my case — jump off.  There are so many DON’TS, aren't there, in the world of politeness? But some symbols of impoliteness hav...