Panel discussion with Michelle Johansen How did the idea for your museum/archive first come about? Is there anything in your background [personally/professionally] that equipped…
Abdul Majid Darr was born in Jhelum in Punjab, Pakistan in 1925. His mother died whilst giving birth to him so his father remarried…
The Everyday Muslim digital photography archives are one of the UK’s largest public collections of images documenting everyday Muslim life in the UK. Entrants…
In her memoir of her late father’s life – A Voyage from Kashmir… Meri Zindagi Ka Safar Nama – Bradford-based author Aamnah Rahman discusses the role…
Bahadur Sher was born in 1930, in the village of Waisa, Attock (Northern Pakistan). He died in 2018 aged eighty-eight years. Bahadur came to…
Black British Muslims play an important role in British society but are poorly represented in public discourse, policy, and indeed across a range of…
Do you know someone who just observed the pilgrimage of Hajj? ‘Hajj and the arts of the Pilgrimage’ by Qaisra Khan, is a visual…
“Iqbal Jafferee Sir, is this the house?” “Is this the Geoffrey Street you wanted me to find?” These were two messages I sent…
Khurshid Ahmed grew up in rural Pakistan in Gujrat, his father, a schoolmaster, had encouraged all his sons to study and get a profession.…
In 2017, a study carried out by the Trust for London and New Policy Institute found that 57% of children in the London Borough…