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Posted on 18th Dec 202019th Dec 2020

This is What an Iraqi Looks Like: the new web series by HAJER

When Baghdad Central aired at the start of this year, Iraqi viewers across the globe tuned in with hopes of seeing their culture and motherland represented on screen. Instead, the…

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Posted on 25th Nov 202025th Nov 2020

Is France’s fight against extremism criminalising Islam as a whole?

If there is a saying that serves as a snapshot for the times we live in, it’s Ibn Khaldun’s remark that “the past resembles the future more than one drop…

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Posted on 29th Jul 2020

9/11 and the British Bangladeshi identity crisis

The British Bangladeshi identity is one that has been through the works and when you consider the history of the community, there is no wonder as to why. Although Bengali…

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Posted on 12th Jun 202025th Jun 2020

How can we address anti-blackness in Desi spaces?

The death of George Floyd in Minnesota at the hands of the white police officer who knelt on his neck for nine minutes reopened a festering wound in America’s social…

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Posted on 26th Apr 202026th Apr 2020

Charities connecting Muslim communities during Ramadan in quarantine

Muslims across the world are currently observing Ramadan. It’s the ninth month in the Islamic calendar, and more importantly, one of the most sacred. The Quran was revealed to the…

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Posted on 16th Apr 202016th Apr 2020

MESA Reviews: Haifaa Al Mansour’s The Perfect Candidate

Like most of us living in the west, I could only really imagine what day-to-day life for a Saudi Arabian woman is like. Unless you’re going off personal experiences or…

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