February 2012
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Maslaha - One of Britain's 50 New Radicals →
Thank you to NESTA and The Observer for the wonderful recognition!
The French Connection
We have just returned from Paris where we are beginning to work with organisations on the ground who are tackling social issues affecting Muslim communities.
Over the past few years Maslaha has worked across a number of fields including health, education, women in Islam, and historical and artistic exhibitions exploring the trade in ideas across cities and time.
We’ve realised quite quickly that...
December 2011
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Enterprising Oman
We have just finished running workshops on social entrepreneurship in Oman for the Muscat Youth Summit. Using Maslaha as an example of how to set up and develop a social enterprise, we worked with 34 young people from a number of different countries including Holland, Yemen, Lebanon, Oman, the UK, the US, Pakistan, Italy, France, and India.
Areas we covered included on how to deliver a good...
September 2011
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"For many people, a job is more than an income –...
Friday afternoon was the much anticipated Careers Fair at Mulberry 6th form, organised by The Kiran Project.
It was an inspiring event with a range of strong, independent role models demonstrating the different career capacities for young women today. From an Occupational Therapist to a Producer at the Islam Channel, the professional women represented the paths one could pursue and recounted...
August 2011
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Watchdocumentary:
KORAN BY HEART was greeted by standing ovations at all of its recent Tribeca Film Festival screenings. It is an engaging and inspiring film about three 10-year-old kids – two boys and a girl – who come from all over the Islamic world to compete in Cairo’s prestigious Koran-recitation contest during Ramadan. The recitation of the Koran is a revered and deeply religious tradition, and...
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http://www.muslimaat.org.uk/ →
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July 2011
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June 2011
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Free To Be - I Can Be She in art
It has been almost a year since we set out, through our I Can Be She project, to provide a source for young women to go for information and inspiration, as well as a platform to challenge common misconceptions about women and Islam and empower more women to join us in vocalising this challenge.
Maslaha has always worked to harness the immense power of story-telling and sought to find new...
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May 2011
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“Let people think for themselves - that is really...
At The Frontline Club in Paddington on Wednesday night, Professor Leila Ahmed talked about her new book, “A Quiet Revolution”, which looks carefully at the resurgence of the veil in the Islamic world and what that means for the West.
During the evening, Professor Ahmed emphasised that wearing the hijab was not necessarily related to piety - meaning that wearing it does not automatically establish...
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Mohsin Hamid at Bookslam
Last night The Clapham Grand smelled of excited anticipation. The Grand had laid on a hearty spread in honour of its sometime guest, Bookslam. This self-styled ‘literary nightclub’ is amassing an impressive alumni of performers including Geoff Dyer, Andrea Levy and Hanif Kureishi. Last night to this list was added Mohsin Hamid, the Booker-shortlisted author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist. The...
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April 2011
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Sharing, Learning and Collaborating
If you’ve been following us this far, you’ve probably noticed that a big part of Maslaha’s work has been based around sharing and learning. Sharing – whether information, stories or expertise – helps us to project ideas that are and have been important to people and to disseminate key knowledge for the benefit of others. Learning comes for hearing this information and translating it to fit within...
Circles, hexagons and tapestries
Yesterday was the day that Mulberry School for Girls completed their set of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) using the curriculum resources we developed in partnership with the Prince’s School for Traditional Arts. The Year 9 class presented their work to a highly impressed audience of pupils and teachers from the rest of the school.
Since February the pupils have been...
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Muna Hassan talks about life - Audio by Angela...
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TenSquared is launched!
Speech extract from the day…
“Maslaha started I Can Be She less than a year ago. We had some ideas around a project we wanted to do with women, and the need for this became every clearer from the conversations we had through our work in health, in education, and in general. In fact, one day when I was talking to Muna and one of her friends about their thoughts on Maslaha so far, their comments...
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WatchI can make a change…
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WatchPoetic Pilgrimage in action at the launch of our TenSquared exhibition!
Beautiful, and you know that you are…
March 2011
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TenSquared Launch this Thursday
Its almost here! This Thursday, Maslaha is launching its exciting new project, TenSquared.
Come on down to Meanwhile Space in Whitechapel, where our celebration of inspirational Muslim women will be kicking off with art, film, music, and lots of cake.
Muna Hassan will be the first subject to have her life and causes captured by a trio of talented artists, including Liz Hingley, whose...
WatchMaslaha’s work at Mulberry School.
Maslaha's new curriculum resources
With compasses poised and rulers at the ready, Maslaha has gone back to school as we start to build our first set of curriculum resources focused on maths, science, art and design.
This project has been made possible with funding from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and our partners in this exciting new project are Mulberry School for Girls in Tower Hamlets and the Prince’s School of...
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What a Muslim woman looks like - an Australian... →
The Arab women's movement →
An article by Kevin Rudd, Foreign Minister for Australia
100 memorable Malaysian women →
Maslaha celebrates 100 years of international...
For the past few months we have been working away on an exciting new idea and it’s now time to announce it to the world…
2011 is the centenary year of International Women’s Day and to commemorate this we are launching TenSquared, a project exploring and celebrating the lives of some of the amazing Muslim women in Britain today. Throughout the year we shall be chronicling the lives of ten...
Liz Hingley ‘Under Gods’ exhibition launches today
Today is the opening of photographer Liz Hingley’s exhibition ‘Under Gods’ at HOST Gallery, London. ‘Under Gods’ documents a two mile stretch of Soho Road in Birmingham where religion acts as the defining factor for identity and creates an extremely diverse and coexisting community.
With a strong interest in documenting political and social issues, Hingley uses photography to...
February 2011
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Musulmans de France
Yesterday, a few of us here at Maslaha had the opportunity to visit the Open Society Institute to view the final part of the documentary Musulmans de France (Muslims of France), directed by Karim Miské and Mohamed Joseph.
Combining archival footage, interview and narrative, this documentary trilogy brings to life the history of Muslims in France over the past century, starting with the arrival of...
What's this? A shiny new blog about diabetes?...
We’re a fascinating, multi-faceted bunch here at Maslaha, with fingers in all sorts of pies and irons in any fire we stumble across. I’ve just started a blog about diabetes and thought it might be just what our Maslaha friends fancy reading on a Friday afternoon. Enjoy!
Winning At Insulin
The value of statistics and “The Future of the...
This week, the Pew Research Centre’s report The Future of the Global Muslim Population has attracted considerable attention. Analysis suggests that Muslims will make up one quarter of the global population in 2030, with Muslims in the UK set to double to 8.2% of the total population. Articles in the Guardian and the Daily Mail have taken up the task of considering the likelihood of such...
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Nobel laureate on women and peace in the Middle...
The first Muslim woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, Dr Shirin Ebadi, will be speaking tomorrow on the role of women in promoting peace in the Middle East at the Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre.
Shirin Ebadi won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003 for her work on human rights, making her only the fifth Muslim to win a Nobel Prize in any field. She was the first Iranian woman to achieve Chief Justice...
January 2011
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‘In the world we live in today, whoever heard of a...
Not enough people, was Norman H Gershman’s answer to this question and this is why he spent six years tracing the stories of Albanian Muslims who gave refuge to Jews during the Second World War and photographing those who still live there. These Muslims were enacting the Albanian code of honour called ‘Besa’ – giving shelter and protection to anyone who asks for it and doing so...
Ottoman traveller cheers up Londoners
A film about a 17th century Ottoman traveller, Evliya Celebi, has been chosen to lift the spirits of Londoners during the bleak month of January as part of a new creative campaign - www.smileforlondon.com
The film which was part of our exhibition – www.thebookoftravels.org will be shown at major London underground stations from Januray 17 – 28. The film-maker, Suki Chan, manages to transport the...
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Guardian Women 100 - nominate someone! →
As you may know, this year is the one hundred year anniversary of International Women’s Day (which falls on the 8th of March). To celebrate the centenary, the Guardian are drawing up an inspirational list of 100 women and are calling for nominations. I’m sure we’ve all got ideas and encounter many many inspirational women throughout our lives - you can make your nominations here.
As they say:
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WatchA forgotten war heroine - check out our latest film in I Can Be She’s ‘Forgotten Heritage’ section on Noor Inayat Khan, a heroic Indian princess who came to Britain as a child and ended up becoming the first female radio operative to be placed in occupied France in the Second World War.
The storyteller in this film and author of the book on Noor’s life, Shrabani Basu, also appeared on Woman’s...
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“The real tenant of Islam is about doing good for others. Part of the ethos...”
– Pinky Lilani, from our interview with her for I Can Be She. Watch more here!
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December 2010
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November 2010
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National Inter Faith Week Underway
From November 21st to the 27th, National Inter Faith Week is in full force across England, Northern Ireland and Wales.
Led by the Inter Faith Network for the UK alongside its member bodies, Inter Faith Week has succeeded in hosting and inspiring a wide selection of national events and local initiatives around the UK. Hundreds of organisations have come on board to contribute to the week,...
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WatchI Can Be… Gempower! A new project for young women in Islington started by Bushra, Najia and Nazmin. Check out what they have to say!