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Read More »Unscripted #48 | The Righteous Sinner | Boonaa Mohammed
“Islamic films” … ever thought you’d hear those words? Well Canadian storyteller Boonaa Mohammed makes them for fun!
Read More »Unscripted #42 | What Malcolm X taught me | Shaykh Ammar AlShukry
55 years after the martyrdom of Malcolm X (raḥimahu Allāhu), Shaykh Ammar AlShukry joins us on the Unscripted Podcast by Islam21c to speak about the man described "ahead of his time", whose activism in the face of adversity helped to change attitudes towards racism and Islam in America.
Read More »As the Moon Illuminates the Night
The Prophet (sall Allāhu ʿalayhi wa sallam) said: “None of you truly believes until I am more beloved to him than his father, his child and all the people.”[1] In this series we embark on a journey to increase our ...
Read More »The Legacy of Muhammad Iqbal
‘Allāma Iqbāl in Oldham A series on Muḥammad Iqbāl Part 1: On unity and identity In a quiet neighbourhood in Oldham, Greater Manchester, amidst vibrant greenery and rows of quaint houses lies 31 ‘Allama Iqbāl road. Although it may at ...
Read More »The Pain of Invasion, Relief and the Way to Victory
Marking its 68th anniversary, very few remain to tell their story of the Nakbah, or the Palestinian Catastrophe, of 1948. One that culminated in the violent extermination and mass expulsion of millions of Palestinians from their homes to be replaced ...
Read More »Arabic Language: Past, Present & Future
Arabic is the main surviving language of the Semitic family. It is spoken in the Arab East and Arab West, popularly known as the Middle East and North Africa, as well as in East and West Africa. It is the ...
Read More »An Eloquent Rhyme for a Troubling Time
Allow me to share a melody, a symphony of smoke screens and tyranny, Marginalising a people till they are left with no humanity, subject to abuse…devoid of sanity. A phobia widespread, filled with anarchy; poisonous rhetoric and barbarity, Cleverly disguised ...
Read More »The Old Man’s Dream and Bitter Reality
The Palestinian Catastrophe’s Passing Generation One after another, cities, towns and villages fell to the hands of troops and the city of Yafa, where we lived was amongst them. My father was forced to take us back to our old ...
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