“Eid was a big thing for us, for the kids. Both Eids. ‘Bookroja’ and ‘Bakara’ Eid. For the kids it was, and for the…
Settling In Establishing a Faith and Cultural Community Centre Identity Childhood Memories of Attending Madrasa Establishing a Place to Prey…
In pre-First World War London, an Egyptian-born journalist and writer founded a paper to report international struggles against colonialism and racism. Yasmeen Arif discusses…
It’s interesting how you may know fragments of your parents’ pasts but rarely know the details or the story as a whole. It wasn’t…
In his talk at the Exploring Contemporary Muslim Art, Culture and Heritage in Britain Conference held at the University of Birmingham in September 2017,…
A few months ago whilst visiting my aunt, I was introduced to man who was also visiting her. On realising who I was he…
Choose from a variety of written reflections based on oral history interviews, archival and academic research.
This is the first archive collection based on the stories and memories of the Black, African and Afro – Caribbean (BAAC) Muslim community in…
(Available early 2019) An uncatalogued digital copy of all the oral history videos, transcripts, film, photographs, project documents and two-dimensional ephemera is available to…
Our first archive collection, ‘We Weren’t Expecting to Stay’ documents the lives of British South Asian Muslim from 1940 to the present day. The…