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19/11/2025

What started as a small student event at SOAS University of London has now become a significant space for Palestinian storytelling. The London Palestine Film Festival has reached 25 years.

Leila Latif speaks to the founder👇🏽

The LPFF has tracked the shifting political landscape in Palestine and Britain, revealing how the meanings of films change over time

19/11/2025

Aisha Rimi speaks to curator Larissa-Diana Fuhrmann and artist Reem Aljeally about Sudan Retold — a decade-long project reclaiming the country’s history and culture.

An immersive London exhibition and accompanying book shed new light on the nation’s past, present and future

18/11/2025

With colder nights and darker mornings, it can be hard to feel like you’ve had a good sleep.

Read Niloufar Haidari’s guide, where faith meets the science of sleep➡️https://hyphenonline.com/2025/11/12/islam-quran-advice-guidance-sleep-routine-self-care-wellness-products/

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18/11/2025

Every year, moon-sighting announcements in the UK split Ramadan and Eid. Now a new astronomy course will train Muslim leaders to spot the moon as a first step in unifying the UK’s lunar calendar.

Read more from Zahra Onsori below ⬇️

Working with Cambridge and Leeds universities, the Moonsighters Academy will train people to call the start of Ramadan and Eid

18/11/2025

In this quirky photo essay, artist Shizza Majeed illustrates her grandfather's personal story of belonging as a Pakistani man who moved to Britain in the 60s.

✍🏽Sabah Salam

Shizza Majeed's photography series tells her grandfather’s personal story of belonging as a Pakistani man who moved to Britain in the 1960s

18/11/2025

In Alpha, Julia Ducournau steps away from horror to explore family, care and belonging.

Leila Latif’s review traces how the body becomes a vessel for memory and loss, in a story rooted in north African identity and unspoken generational ties→https://hyphenonline.com/2025/11/13/alpha-film-review-body-horror-julia-ducournau-director/

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17/11/2025

Sudan Retold explores the ways artists are preserving their culture and resisting erasure through creativity. On until 14 December at the Almas Art Foundation UK.

Aisha Rimi reports→https://hyphenonline.com/2025/11/12/sudan-retold-exhibition-book-almas-art-foundation-london/

📷Almas Art Foundation

17/11/2025

Despite backlash from culinary nativists, halal cuisine is booming in Paris.

Adam Bychawski and Capucine Japhet showcase restaurants pushing the scene forward.

Despite outcry from culinary nativists, halal cuisine is booming in the French capital. Here’s where to find some of the best

17/11/2025

Shakeel Murtaza didn’t plan to be a beauty influencer — but now he’s representing what male self-care looks like for Muslim South Asian men. Read more below from Jaheim Karim⬇️

The influencer never imagined that making TikTok videos of his evening skincare routines would lead him to working with global brands

17/11/2025

Alexander Gent, chair of the National Association of Muslim Police, says he is ‘absolutely shocked’ by revelations that babies under a year old have been referred to counter-terror scheme Prevent over ‘Islamist’ concerns.

✍🏻 Lucas Cumiskey

More than 200 referrals made to counter-terror scheme for children aged three or under since 2016, most citing ‘Islamist’ concerns

16/11/2025

Muslims at Centre for Media Monitoring have called out BBC bias for years but were ignored, argues the organisation’s Faisal Hanif.

Only now that the corporation has offended the right is it facing a backlash.

As Tim Davie and Deborah Turness quit, Faisal Hanif of the Centre for Media Monitoring argues that the true scandal has long gone ignored

16/11/2025

The London Jazz Festival returns for its 33rd year, with artists from Iran, Japan and the US in the lineup.

‘We want to celebrate cross-cultural interpretations in a time when we need unity more than ever,’ says festival director Pelin Opcin.

✍🏽 Ammar Kalia

Artists from Iran, Japan, the US and Europe come together for the annual celebration of musical improvisation and innovation