Ramzy Alwakeel
@journoramzy.bsky.social
Deputy editor (news and investigations), @hyphenonline.com. How We Used Saint Etienne to Live out now. Follow for propaganda about pop music, social housing and local news. @journoramzy on Twitter. He/him 🏳️🌈
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🔎 Freelance journalists! We're looking for news and investigations pitches at @onlinehyphen.bsky.social – if you've got a story or an idea on an issue that you reckon would be of interest to British Muslims, please email me on ramzy dot alwakeel at hyphenonline dot com! And please pass this on!
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🔴 EXC from @lucascumiskey.bsky.social: babies and toddlers have been referred to the government’s controversial counter-terrorism scheme Prevent hundreds of times since 2016, new data reveals.
November 12, 2025 at 11:12 AM
🔴 EXC from @lucascumiskey.bsky.social: babies and toddlers have been referred to the government’s controversial counter-terrorism scheme Prevent hundreds of times since 2016, new data reveals.
🔴 NEW from @anitamureithi.bsky.social: the government's former resettlement minister Lord Khan told an audience at #HyphenFestival2025 that the 'life in the UK' test for new citizens is not fit for purpose & Starmer's 'island of strangers' speech was 'not right'.
hyphenonline.com/2025/11/04/w...
hyphenonline.com/2025/11/04/w...
‘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
hyphenonline.com
November 4, 2025 at 4:52 PM
🔴 NEW from @anitamureithi.bsky.social: the government's former resettlement minister Lord Khan told an audience at #HyphenFestival2025 that the 'life in the UK' test for new citizens is not fit for purpose & Starmer's 'island of strangers' speech was 'not right'.
hyphenonline.com/2025/11/04/w...
hyphenonline.com/2025/11/04/w...
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!
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 ⬇️
hyphenonline.com/2025/11/03/h...
Hyphen deputy editor @journoramzy.bsky.social explains what to expect and how to tune in ⬇️
hyphenonline.com/2025/11/03/h...
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
hyphenonline.com
November 3, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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!
New venue concept: loft bar but it's a British loft not a US loft. No lighting, no floor, fibrous yellow decor, squirrels nesting in the corner, entry via a stepladder, no one can stand up straight once they're inside. Is this anything
October 25, 2025 at 6:24 PM
New venue concept: loft bar but it's a British loft not a US loft. No lighting, no floor, fibrous yellow decor, squirrels nesting in the corner, entry via a stepladder, no one can stand up straight once they're inside. Is this anything
Beyond proud that my @hyphenonline.com colleagues @lucascumiskey.bsky.social, Saman Javed and @anitamureithi.bsky.social have been shortlisted in the #BritishJournalismAwards2025 – days after our northern corr Aisha Rimi won Journalist Media Personality of the Year at the Black Muslim Awards 2025.
October 23, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Beyond proud that my @hyphenonline.com colleagues @lucascumiskey.bsky.social, Saman Javed and @anitamureithi.bsky.social have been shortlisted in the #BritishJournalismAwards2025 – days after our northern corr Aisha Rimi won Journalist Media Personality of the Year at the Black Muslim Awards 2025.
LOVE this story about the heroes in Nottingham teaching medical English to migrant women so they can tell the GP what's wrong.
Loads of heartwarming stories like this in our 'Island of Neighbours' series (no prizes for identifying the misguided prime ministerial quote that spawned that one).
Loads of heartwarming stories like this in our 'Island of Neighbours' series (no prizes for identifying the misguided prime ministerial quote that spawned that one).
‘My English was good but it was business English. Speaking to a doctor is different.’ Two women in Nottingham set out to improve health outcomes by teaching English medical vocabulary.
https://hyphenonline.com/2025/10/21/teaching-medical-esol-migrant-women-break-language-barriers-healthcare/
https://hyphenonline.com/2025/10/21/teaching-medical-esol-migrant-women-break-language-barriers-healthcare/
How do you express pain in your second language?
Two retired friends from Nottingham set out to improve health outcomes for women by teaching English medical vocabulary
hyphenonline.com
October 23, 2025 at 4:13 PM
LOVE this story about the heroes in Nottingham teaching medical English to migrant women so they can tell the GP what's wrong.
Loads of heartwarming stories like this in our 'Island of Neighbours' series (no prizes for identifying the misguided prime ministerial quote that spawned that one).
Loads of heartwarming stories like this in our 'Island of Neighbours' series (no prizes for identifying the misguided prime ministerial quote that spawned that one).
Reposted by Ramzy Alwakeel
Unfortunately The i Paper is making several reporters redundant today, and my role is one of them.
I'm very proud of the work I've published over the last three years, and I'm looking forward to continuing my reporting freelance.
Want to chat? Drop me an email, text or DM.
I'm very proud of the work I've published over the last three years, and I'm looking forward to continuing my reporting freelance.
Want to chat? Drop me an email, text or DM.
October 17, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Unfortunately The i Paper is making several reporters redundant today, and my role is one of them.
I'm very proud of the work I've published over the last three years, and I'm looking forward to continuing my reporting freelance.
Want to chat? Drop me an email, text or DM.
I'm very proud of the work I've published over the last three years, and I'm looking forward to continuing my reporting freelance.
Want to chat? Drop me an email, text or DM.
Excellent to see a planning story that pulls out – in the subhead no less! – a figure for social rent homes, not the nebulous category of "affordable". (Less excellent is the figure itself.)
www.mylondon.news/news/south-l...
www.mylondon.news/news/south-l...
1,700 South London homes approved plus tiered parks and streets
Lewisham Council has approved the plans despite it containing only 98 social rent homes, while 10,000 people sit on the housing waiting list
www.mylondon.news
October 17, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Excellent to see a planning story that pulls out – in the subhead no less! – a figure for social rent homes, not the nebulous category of "affordable". (Less excellent is the figure itself.)
www.mylondon.news/news/south-l...
www.mylondon.news/news/south-l...
I just reverse image searched this to see if I could find the original and of course an AI summary came up before the actual results. But ... does this suggest that AI can understand and translate its own slop back into English??
October 14, 2025 at 4:35 PM
I just reverse image searched this to see if I could find the original and of course an AI summary came up before the actual results. But ... does this suggest that AI can understand and translate its own slop back into English??
Surely there is no coming back for the curious Guardian style ruling on capping down political parties (Labour party, Conservative party, etc) when it comes to Your Party. Looks like they did it once then gave up
October 14, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Surely there is no coming back for the curious Guardian style ruling on capping down political parties (Labour party, Conservative party, etc) when it comes to Your Party. Looks like they did it once then gave up
BREAKING: A crossbench peer who was among five independent experts tasked with producing an Islamophobia definition has issued a warning as the group submits its proposals to the government.
Story by @lucascumiskey.bsky.social 👇
hyphenonline.com/2025/10/13/i...
Story by @lucascumiskey.bsky.social 👇
hyphenonline.com/2025/10/13/i...
Islamophobia working group submits proposals to government
Shaista Gohir, part of the group working on a definition of Islamophobia, says attacks on members are intended to scare government
hyphenonline.com
October 13, 2025 at 4:59 PM
BREAKING: A crossbench peer who was among five independent experts tasked with producing an Islamophobia definition has issued a warning as the group submits its proposals to the government.
Story by @lucascumiskey.bsky.social 👇
hyphenonline.com/2025/10/13/i...
Story by @lucascumiskey.bsky.social 👇
hyphenonline.com/2025/10/13/i...
*LOVE* this feature by @leilalatif.bsky.social about the voice actors who dub the Arabic versions of films & cartoons. If you've ever looked at the dubbing credits for a million languages at the end of a Netflix show and wondered who all those people are, read this!
hyphenonline.com/2025/10/07/v...
hyphenonline.com/2025/10/07/v...
‘Egyptian is the most wanted’: inside the world of Arabic dubbing
The people behind our favourite characters – Bluey to Captain Majid – rarely appear on screen, but you’ll recognise their voices
hyphenonline.com
October 8, 2025 at 12:25 PM
*LOVE* this feature by @leilalatif.bsky.social about the voice actors who dub the Arabic versions of films & cartoons. If you've ever looked at the dubbing credits for a million languages at the end of a Netflix show and wondered who all those people are, read this!
hyphenonline.com/2025/10/07/v...
hyphenonline.com/2025/10/07/v...
A rare bit of (sort of) actual nice positive news about people not being racist? hyphenonline.com/2025/10/07/s...
Dalton mosque: town unites against anti-mosque protests - Hyphen
Plans for the South Lakes Islamic Centre in Dalton-in-Furness have attracted the ire of Britain First and Nick Tenconi
hyphenonline.com
October 8, 2025 at 11:37 AM
A rare bit of (sort of) actual nice positive news about people not being racist? hyphenonline.com/2025/10/07/s...
Reposted by Ramzy Alwakeel
Muslims in Peacehaven have been left ‘terrified’ following an arson attack on their mosque, a manager has said.
Full story by Saman Javed.
hyphenonline.com/2025/10/06/p...
Full story by Saman Javed.
hyphenonline.com/2025/10/06/p...
Peacehaven mosque arson attack ‘followed months of abuse’ - Hyphen
Police are appealing for information about the attack on Peacehaven Mosque in East Sussex, which saw the entrance set alight
hyphenonline.com
October 6, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Muslims in Peacehaven have been left ‘terrified’ following an arson attack on their mosque, a manager has said.
Full story by Saman Javed.
hyphenonline.com/2025/10/06/p...
Full story by Saman Javed.
hyphenonline.com/2025/10/06/p...
🔴 In his first interview since leaving the role of faith minister, Wajid Khan speaks to @sajeraj.bsky.social about tackling racism, celebrating the contributions of migrants, and why the government shouldn't shelve its anti-Islamophobia work.
hyphenonline.com/2025/10/01/w...
hyphenonline.com/2025/10/01/w...
Wajid Khan says government must tackle hate against Muslims
Former faith minister said Britain needed to celebrate the contributions of migrants and warned against scrapping anti-Islamophobia work
hyphenonline.com
October 2, 2025 at 1:23 PM
🔴 In his first interview since leaving the role of faith minister, Wajid Khan speaks to @sajeraj.bsky.social about tackling racism, celebrating the contributions of migrants, and why the government shouldn't shelve its anti-Islamophobia work.
hyphenonline.com/2025/10/01/w...
hyphenonline.com/2025/10/01/w...
The two-child benefit cap helps keep poor people poor and disproportionately affects British Muslim families. Scrapping it (as govt is reported to be doing) is vastly better news for Britain than anything that's been announced at Labour conference.
hyphenonline.com/2025/06/02/t...
hyphenonline.com/2025/06/02/t...
Two-child benefit cap: data reveals impact on Muslim children
Labour MPs and party’s Muslim network add to pressure on ministers to axe two-child benefit cap in light of Hyphen’s findings
hyphenonline.com
September 30, 2025 at 4:32 PM
The two-child benefit cap helps keep poor people poor and disproportionately affects British Muslim families. Scrapping it (as govt is reported to be doing) is vastly better news for Britain than anything that's been announced at Labour conference.
hyphenonline.com/2025/06/02/t...
hyphenonline.com/2025/06/02/t...
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Feels a bit egregious to post about awards two days in a row, but I have just found out I was nominated for – and have won – an independent journalism award for my reporting following the Supreme Court decision in For Women Scotland for @wearequeeraf.com
Thank you!
Thank you!
September 26, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Feels a bit egregious to post about awards two days in a row, but I have just found out I was nominated for – and have won – an independent journalism award for my reporting following the Supreme Court decision in For Women Scotland for @wearequeeraf.com
Thank you!
Thank you!
1/ This is a huge victory for those pressuring Microsoft to pull out of its deal with the Israeli military. Perhaps less obviously, it will also be music to the ears of many UK Muslims with pensions and investments tied up in halal funds.
September 25, 2025 at 3:34 PM
1/ This is a huge victory for those pressuring Microsoft to pull out of its deal with the Israeli military. Perhaps less obviously, it will also be music to the ears of many UK Muslims with pensions and investments tied up in halal funds.
🔴 NEW from @lucascumiskey.bsky.social for @hyphenonline.com: British Muslims with investments and pensions in sharia-compliant funds may be unknowingly profiting from Israel’s war in Gaza and the occupation economy.
hyphenonline.com/2025/09/23/s...
hyphenonline.com/2025/09/23/s...
Halal investments ‘unknowingly’ profiting from war in Gaza
Sharia-compliant funds including the HSBC Islamic Global Equity Index have more than $1bn tied up in firms such as Microsoft and Alphabet
hyphenonline.com
September 23, 2025 at 11:43 AM
🔴 NEW from @lucascumiskey.bsky.social for @hyphenonline.com: British Muslims with investments and pensions in sharia-compliant funds may be unknowingly profiting from Israel’s war in Gaza and the occupation economy.
hyphenonline.com/2025/09/23/s...
hyphenonline.com/2025/09/23/s...
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What on Earth is this? An "in depth" BBC article about free speech in the UK that only cites examples of right-wing/ 'anti-woke' speech being suppressed. How can you mention Lucy Connolly but completely ignore Palestine Action / Just Stop Oil? Gob-smacking. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
How the simmering UK freedom of speech row reached boiling point
How did we reach a point where the UK is being compared to a 'tin pot Third World dictatorship'?
www.bbc.co.uk
September 23, 2025 at 9:11 AM
What on Earth is this? An "in depth" BBC article about free speech in the UK that only cites examples of right-wing/ 'anti-woke' speech being suppressed. How can you mention Lucy Connolly but completely ignore Palestine Action / Just Stop Oil? Gob-smacking. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
.@mothinali.bsky.social is the Greens' new co-deputy leader.
He made headlines last year for trying to deescalate riots – and was attacked by the far right for his efforts. Greens now the only mainstream party in Eng & Wales with a Muslim leader or deputy leader
hyphenonline.com/2025/09/02/m...
He made headlines last year for trying to deescalate riots – and was attacked by the far right for his efforts. Greens now the only mainstream party in Eng & Wales with a Muslim leader or deputy leader
hyphenonline.com/2025/09/02/m...
Mothin Ali elected co-deputy leader of the Green party
Leeds councillor who made national headlines becomes the only Muslim in England and Wales in mainstream political party leadership role
hyphenonline.com
September 2, 2025 at 12:01 PM
.@mothinali.bsky.social is the Greens' new co-deputy leader.
He made headlines last year for trying to deescalate riots – and was attacked by the far right for his efforts. Greens now the only mainstream party in Eng & Wales with a Muslim leader or deputy leader
hyphenonline.com/2025/09/02/m...
He made headlines last year for trying to deescalate riots – and was attacked by the far right for his efforts. Greens now the only mainstream party in Eng & Wales with a Muslim leader or deputy leader
hyphenonline.com/2025/09/02/m...
A reminder that the UK has actually been deporting people to Taliban-run Afghanistan since, er, August 2021:
hyphenonline.com/2025/04/24/f...
hyphenonline.com/2025/04/24/f...
UK has deported eight offenders to Afghanistan since Taliban takeover
Data obtained exclusively from the Home Office shows at least one deportee had been serving a sentence of less than six months
hyphenonline.com
August 26, 2025 at 4:32 PM
A reminder that the UK has actually been deporting people to Taliban-run Afghanistan since, er, August 2021:
hyphenonline.com/2025/04/24/f...
hyphenonline.com/2025/04/24/f...
Today's announcement about a statutory definition of "honour" violence is good news for campaigners – but govt hasn't been able to say whether it intends to adopt the definition that groups like @karmanirvana.bsky.social have been working on with survivors and families, or produce its own.
‘Honour’ violence could be defined in law for first time
Home Office announcement pre-empts plans backed by 35 rights and research groups to introduce their own definition of ‘honour’ violence
hyphenonline.com
August 26, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Today's announcement about a statutory definition of "honour" violence is good news for campaigners – but govt hasn't been able to say whether it intends to adopt the definition that groups like @karmanirvana.bsky.social have been working on with survivors and families, or produce its own.
Reposted by Ramzy Alwakeel
Since journalists are not allowed into Gaza freely - and those there are being killed en masse - to hear what is happening there we must speak directly to those living amid the rubble.
I spoke to nurse and mother Alaa Jaber, living in a tent with her hungry and injured family in the middle of Gaza.
I spoke to nurse and mother Alaa Jaber, living in a tent with her hungry and injured family in the middle of Gaza.
'No Place is Safe': Mother Describes Life Under Siege in Gaza Strip
Nurse Alaa Jaber lost her father to Israeli bombing, and is currently living in a tent with her malnourished and injured family
bylinetimes.com
August 13, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Since journalists are not allowed into Gaza freely - and those there are being killed en masse - to hear what is happening there we must speak directly to those living amid the rubble.
I spoke to nurse and mother Alaa Jaber, living in a tent with her hungry and injured family in the middle of Gaza.
I spoke to nurse and mother Alaa Jaber, living in a tent with her hungry and injured family in the middle of Gaza.