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Review: Pride in Trafford Double Bill: The Chosen Haram and BI-TOPIA

Review: Pride in Trafford Double Bill: The Chosen Haram and BI-TOPIA

Pride in Trafford was kicked off with a two pieces of theatre, one exploring the intersection of sexuality and religion, the other sexuality and masculinity
MACFEST, Muslim Arts and Culture Festival, comes back to Manchester this February

MACFEST, Muslim Arts and Culture Festival, comes back to Manchester this February

Launching on the 5th of February, MACFEST 2022 offers over 75 events that showcase the Muslim culture, from debates to workshops and art exhibitions
Students call for an official prayer room in the library

Students call for an official prayer room in the library

Students comment that over an hour of their day is spent travelling from the library to designated prayer spaces and that this interruption will be felt most during the month of Ramadan
Review: The Runway

Review: The Runway

Urussa Malik reviews The Runway at the Martin Harris Centre
The Funeral Director

The Funeral Director

Alexia Pieretti reviews The Funeral Director on its visit to HOME

Preview: The Funeral Director

Theatre Editor Anuli Changa speaks to Hannah Hauer-King, director of The Funeral Director, written by Iman Qureshi
Review: Cuts of the Cloth

Review: Cuts of the Cloth

Jay Darcy reviews Cuts of the Cloth as part of the HOME Push Festival
My body is not my home

My body is not my home

Following the Women’s Theatre Society performance of ‘Uncovered: Monologues by Muslim Women’, Ellie Martin chats to Safiyya El Diwany
Review: ‘Uncovered: Monologues by Muslim Women’

Review: ‘Uncovered: Monologues by Muslim Women’

Devi Joshi reviews the Women’s Theatre Society’s ‘Uncovered: Monologues by Muslim Women’

Failures of the West’s counter-terrorism strategy

The UK could do much more to win the hearts and minds of British Muslims

Manchester attacks: “I am writing this as a Muslim, a woman, a mother”

Dalal Abbasi, a Muslim mother who studied at the University of Manchester and lived in the city for six years reflects on the Manchester attacks

Muslim women academically outperform male counterparts

Academics find that Muslim women now outnumber Muslim men in the number of people aged 21-24 with higher education degrees, in stark contrast to past statistics

#NotInMyName

Guest contributor Dalal explains just how harmful ‘Islamic’ terrorism is for the Muslim community, and that the perpetrators of the Charlie Hebdo attacks do not, and cannot, represent Islam

To veil or not to veil?

In the wake of national controversy over the veil, Alice Rigby discusses the issues surrounding the headdress worn by Muslim women…

Review: ‘David’

Daniel reviews the Brooklyn Film Festival stand out film