islam

Ramadan this year just won’t be the same. No late nights at the mosque. No visiting family and friends. No hosting iftars (the time Muslims break their fast). Well, what is Ramadan?  Ramadan is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar that begins with the sighting of the moon...

With Easter, Passover and Ramadan commencing, people of faith have been reminded to follow government advice and to celebrate at home. As the good weather is set to continue, religious leaders have been exploring new ways of delivering their sermons online, in an effort to persuade people not to...

Title: Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution Author: Mona Eltahawy Genre: Memoir, current affairs Publisher: Weidenfeld and Nicolson Published: 2016 Pages: 238 In Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution, Mona Eltahawy confronts the forces behind female oppression in the...

In the midst of attacks against women in hijabs and fear-mongering in certain tabloid news outlets it seems that now is a more relevant time than ever to discuss the issues facing followers of Islam in the wake of discrimination and bigotry. Sharmin Faruque, a student from London, describes her...

I’d be inclined to think of my uncle as a decent man, but he once said to me one of the worst things anyone ever has. I asked him about those souls drowning across Europe in leaky, over packed vessels – desperately trying to make it to our shores...

Europe faces an identity crisis. The January attack on French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and the Copenhagen shootings have raised fresh questions about ‘home-grown’ terrorists – people who have been radicalised, often after having grown up within the same country that they attack, such as the recently ‘unmasked’ Mohammed...