A video clip by Bashy Quraishy
He was born in India, but grew up in Pakistan. He has studied Engineering in Germany and USA, and later studied International Marketing in London. He is a member of a number of Commissions, Committees and Boards involved with Human Rights, Ethnic/Religious Equality Issues, anti-racism, anti-discrimination, Islamophobia and anti-Semitism, both in Denmark and internationally.
On the Danish level, He is the Chief Editor of MidiaWatch, which is a quarterly magazine on media and minorities, Chair of media monitoring organisation, Fair Play and member of the Advisory Council of Danish Human Rights Institute.
On the international level, from 2001 – 2007, he was President of European Network Against Racism–Brussels which is the largest European Union network against racism with over 700 member organisations. Since Nov 2007, he is Chairman of ENAR’s Advisory Council, Chair of the European Platform for Jewish Muslim Co-operation, member of the “Board of Trustees” of the Dutch Foundation “More colour in the media” and General secretary of the network EMISCO -European Muslim Initiative for Social Cohesion. He is also senior adviser to COJEP International, a France based inter-cultural youth organisation and from 2005-2007 sat on EU Commission’s High Level Committee on the Social and Labour Market integration of disadvantaged ethnic minorities in EU.
Quraishy contributes regularly to the Danish and European press with essays, chronicles and TV debates as well as lectures on various issues concerning Ethnic Minorities in EU, Islam in the Western Media, benefits of inter-culturalism, globalization, anti-Semitism and Islamophobia, Racism’s consequences and Integration’s dilemma in Europe. Since January 2010, he hosts TV programme – Bashy’s Corner – at TV Channel Greater Copenhagen.
Publications
Books published:
- Fort Europa –1994
- EU – the lost paradise – 1995
- European Union or Fortress Europe – 1996
- I am not a racist but –. – 1996
- My Europe – 1997
- Searching for a humane Europe – 1998
- From Punjab to Copenhagen – 1999
- Danish identity – seen through brown eyes – 2003
Awards
- 2007 Award for action against racism and discrimination, given by COJEP International-France
- 2007 Ambassador for Peace by Universal Peace Foundation. South Korea
- 2008 Medal for outstanding services for inter-faith work. Mardin.Turkey
- 2008 Certificate of appreciation-International Conference of Islamic Scholars. Jakarta. Indonesia.
- 2008 Hero Award for services rendered to Pakistani and ethnic minority communities in Denmark