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From Friday 14 to Sunday 23 of November, London will be transformed into the capital of jazz, with Iranian, Japanese and American artists taking stage at the London Jazz Fest.

https://hyphenonline.com/2025/11/10/london-jazz-festival-preview-persian-experimentation-iran-nigeria-japan/
London Jazz Festival: Persian experimentation takes centre stage
Artists from Iran, Japan, the US and Europe come together for the annual celebration of musical improvisation and innovation
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November 10, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Palestinian film-maker Juman Quneis brings her film The Loud Silence to this year’s Leeds Palestinian Film Festival — a moving story of solidarity, protest and grief.

✍🏾Aisha Rimi
https://hyphenonline.com/2025/11/10/leeds-palestinian-film-festival-2025-the-loud-silence-juman-quneis/
November 10, 2025 at 3:30 PM
‘Where's our protection?’

Cabbies voice their concerns about new, ‘driverless’ taxis coming to London next year.

Samir Jeraj has more👇🏽
https://hyphenonline.com/2025/11/10/driverless-cars-london-waymo-taxi-minicab-drivers-protest/
Driverless cars ‘could gut London taxi and minicab industry’
Cabbies, 42% of whom are Asian or Asian British, say they need protection as US firm Waymo plans London rollout of driverless taxis
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November 10, 2025 at 11:30 AM
🔭It's #StemDay.

Nylah Salam sits down with four women working across science and engineering to talk about the barriers still facing them today.

https://hyphenonline.com/2024/11/08/muslim-women-in-science-medicine-tech-stem-uk/
‘We often forget that women have always been involved in science’
Hyphen sits down with four pioneering women working across science and engineering to talk about the barriers still facing them today
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November 8, 2025 at 12:00 PM
It's #StemDay.

Nylah Salam sits down with four women working across science and engineering to talk about the barriers still facing them today.

https://hyphenonline.com/2024/11/08/muslim-women-in-science-medicine-tech-stem-uk/
‘We often forget that women have always been involved in science’
Hyphen sits down with four pioneering women working across science and engineering to talk about the barriers still facing them today
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November 8, 2025 at 10:00 AM
What does life look like behind the cameras of The Only Way Is Essex?

In our new Weekend With interview, Junaid Ahmed opens up about his faith and family, plus his routines and go-to spots in Essex.
https://hyphenonline.com/2025/11/06/weekend-with-junaid-ahmed-towie-essex-muslim-reality-tv/
Junaid Ahmed: ‘I hope I can inspire families to accept their children’
The Towie star on being the UK’s first openly gay Muslim reality TV personality and staying connected to his culture
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November 7, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Zain Ali’s new installation, Nisbet Road Tailor Shop, is a celebration of Bradford’s South Asian tailors and the craft that helped shape British Asian fashion. Catch the exhibition until 23 November at Loading Bay, part of @bradford2025.co.uk.

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Zain Ali exhibition brings the story of South Asian style to Bradford
The immersive show highlights the central role immigrant tailors have played in the city's textile industry and UK fashion sector
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November 7, 2025 at 1:49 PM
The number of children reading for pleasure in the UK is the lowest it has ever been, according to the National Literacy Trust.

Yousra Samir Imran shares ideas to spark a love of books in your kids.
https://hyphenonline.com/2025/11/05/how-to-get-children-reading-encourage-parents-tips-guide/
How to encourage your children to fall in love with reading
Statistics show kids less likely to open a book these days. What can we do to stop the decline in reading for pleasure?
hyphenonline.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:00 AM
The ‘salmon sperm facial’ is taking the beauty industry by storm, but what can it do for Black and brown skin?

Saman Javed unpacks the science, the risks, and the reality behind the viral sensation.
https://hyphenonline.com/2025/11/05/salmon-sperm-facial-polynucleotide-treatment-injected-face-skin/
Would you have salmon sperm injected in your face?
If the answer is yes, here’s everything you need to know before getting polynucleotide treatment on your skin
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November 6, 2025 at 5:50 PM
We are the Lions, Mr Manager, a play by Townsend Theatre Productions, commemorates the Grunwick strikes and the historic fight for worker rights led by Jayaben Desai and South Asian women almost 50 years ago.

https://hyphenonline.com/2025/11/04/grunwick-strike-play-we-are-the-lions-mr-manager/
We Are the Lions, Mr Manager brings Grunwick strikes to the stage
Almost 50 years on, this theatre production remembers the women who stood up for their rights and changed the labour movement
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November 6, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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✨ Yesterday, we were delighted to attend the Hyphen Festival — @hyphenonline.com's first-ever celebration of #Muslim contributions to #British public life and culture! 🤍

Congratulations on hosting such a meaningful and uplifting festival — a wonderful celebration of talent, thought and community. 🤲🏼
November 5, 2025 at 7:46 PM
As Remembrance Day approaches, the World Wars Muslim Memorial has been left seeking new funding — because £1m pledged by the government still hasn’t materialised.

✍🏻W Strzyżyńska
https://hyphenonline.com/2025/11/05/muslim-war-memorial-funding-national-lottery-trust/
Muslim war memorial: ministers’ delay leaves trust to find £1m - Hyphen
Long-awaited project could help counter far-right myths about Muslims not being part of Britain’s history, argue supporters
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November 6, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Muslim women in sport have called for long-term investment to bridge the gap between grassroots and elite-level opportunities.

Aisha Rimi reports.
https://hyphenonline.com/2025/11/05/muslim-women-sport-funding-investment-access-elite-pathways/
Funding needed to boost Muslim women's access to sport
Speaking at the Hyphen Festival, four panellists underlined need for better funding and more opportunities to compete at the highest levels
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November 5, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Rachel Reeves’s speech on the budget did little to calm MPs’ nerves.

Shehab Khan has more👇🏽
https://hyphenonline.com/2025/11/05/rachel-reeves-labour-budget-tax-increases/
November 5, 2025 at 12:18 PM
‘The Traitors castle doesn’t create bias — it concentrates it.’

Ahead of Thursday's finale, Leila Latif looks into the ways that reality TV exposes unspoken biases.

#CelebrityTraitors
https://hyphenonline.com/2025/11/03/the-celebrity-traitors-black-contestants-voted-out-unconscious-bias/
The Celebrity Traitors shows unconscious bias at work
Despite its politeness and popularity, the UK’s favourite reality TV show is based on kneejerk assumptions about who people really are
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November 5, 2025 at 11:12 AM
'It's not a time for us to be ashamed of who we are.'

Green Party co-deputy leader @mothinali.bsky.social spoke at #HyphenFestival2025 about facing extra press scrutiny as a Muslim politician, and why British Muslims should be proud of their contributions to society.
November 4, 2025 at 5:07 PM
The ‘Life in the UK’ test for new citizens is not fit for purpose, former resettlement minister Wajid Khan told Burhan Wazir at #HyphenFestival2025.

Anita Mureithi reports ⬇️
https://hyphenonline.com/2025/11/04/wajid-khan-life-in-the-uk-test-not-fit-for-purpose/
‘Life in the UK’ test not fit for purpose — Lord Wajid Khan
Speaking at inaugural Hyphen Festival, Labour peer adds that government must do more to tackle cost of living crisis
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November 4, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Great to join @hyphenonline.com #HyphenFestival2025 panel with @shavtaj.bsky.social & @mothinali.bsky.social , joining Hyphen deputy editor to discuss how Muslim voters might respond to the UK’s current political challenges.

A lot of agreement on the need to amplify Muslim voices.
November 4, 2025 at 12:05 PM
🎉 Today is the first ever #HyphenFestival2025!

Join us from 9am to midday via our YouTube livestream and follow @onlinehyphen on X for live updates throughout the day.

Hear from Lord Wajid Khan, Mothin Ali, Zainab Alema and others as we celebrate Muslim excellence in politics, sport and beyond.
November 4, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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I'm honoured to be chairing a panel to discuss Muslim voters' responses to the UK's political omnicrisis at tomorrow's Hyphen Festival with Shav Taj (Welsh TUC), Mothin Ali (Green co-deputy leader) and Hina Bokhari (London Lib Dems). Details of how to tune in below!
November 3, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Tomorrow, Hyphen hosts its first ever in-person event — #HyphenFestival2025, featuring leading Muslim voices in politics and sport.

Hyphen deputy editor @journoramzy.bsky.social explains what to expect and how to tune in ⬇️
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Hyphen Festival 2025 to feature Muslim figures in sport and politics
Here’s how to watch Wajid Khan, Mothin Ali, Zainab Alema and others discuss Muslims’ rich contributions to life in the UK and Europe
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November 3, 2025 at 12:10 PM
‘I kept repeating every single prayer over again.’

Meriem Mahdhi speaks to Muslims affected by religious OCD, which can turn acts of faith into cycles of fear and repetition.

Centre for Mental Health

https://hyphenonline.com/2025/10/29/repeating-prayer-how-religious-ocd-can-affect-muslims/
How religious OCD can affect Muslims - Hyphen
People of all faiths can experience religious OCD, turning what should be acts of devotion or ethical concern into obsessive doubt
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October 31, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Across the Muslim world, film-makers have been crafting horrors with their own cultural twists: jinn instead of killer clowns, possession tales rooted in lived spiritual traditions rather than evil dolls.

Here’s @leilalatif.bsky.social's watchlist 👻

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A spooky guide to Muslim horror movies
This watchlist of scary films, from Indonesia to Pakistan, will show you that Hollywood does not hold the monopoly on horror movies
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October 31, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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156,000 Young British Muslims will be enfranchised by the lower voting age of 16 at the next election. That’s just under 11%, largely concentrated in seats Labour needs to hold in Birmingham, Bradford and east London.

My story for @hyphenonline.com

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Votes at 16 will enfranchise 156,000 young Muslims - Hyphen
Analysis of 2021 census data also finds young Muslim voters could have biggest impact in Birmingham, Bradford and east London
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October 30, 2025 at 9:51 AM
In the 1964 general election, a campaign of racist sloganeering was unleashed on Birmingham’s voters. Six decades later, attacks on multiculturalism are still being directed at the city by a senior Tory figure, writes @tajali1.bsky.social.

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Rightwing attacks on multiculturalism are a cynical smokescreen
Minority communities are not to blame for the UK’s problems — the likes of Robert Jenrick and Nigel Farage are
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October 30, 2025 at 4:51 PM