On March 18, 2019, SETA in cooperation with Euroárabe Foundation will organize the panel “Countering Anti-Muslim Racism in Spain” at Euroárabe Foundation, Granada. Drawing on the most recently published edition of the annually published European Islamophobia report, this event will shed light on the rising levels of Islamophobia in European countries and Spain. Additionally, the event seeks to address the issue of tackling this growing phenomenon.

Inmaculada Marrero Rocha, the Executive Secretary of Euroárabe Foundation will moderate the discussion. Enes Bayraklı, the director of European studies at SETA and co-editor of the European Islamophobia Report, will analyse the European wide trends of Islamophobia; Lola Fernández Palenzuela, the Communications and Institutional Relations Manager of Euroárabe Foundation, will present the report of the Observatory on Islamophobia in the Media; and Carmen Aguilera, author of the Spain chapter of the European Islamophobia Report 2017, will present her country report.