Inciting ethno-religious animosity has become a means of survival for parts of Sri Lanka’s political elite.
![On March 13, the Sri Lankan governmenty announced plans to ban the wearing of burqas and said it would close more than 1,000 Islamic schools, citing national security [File: AP/Eranga Jayawardena]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/AP_21072510417997.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Farzana Haniffa
Head of the Department of Sociology at the University of Colombo
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Farzana Haniffa is Professor and Head of the Department of Sociology at the University of Colombo. She has published on the social and political history of Muslims, gender politics and the anti-Muslim movement in Sri Lanka.
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