On a cold and wet Sunday morning in winter I would normally get up for fajr prayer at around 7am and once I have offered my prayer would crawl back in to bed. Not today. I was invited to a special screening of the film Journey to Mecca at the IMAX cinema in Waterloo taking place at 9.30am. I had told the kids and the Mrs. that we would be going so they were prepared but my boys, Yusef and…
I spent this weekend past in Bristol on a Media Training course organised by the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations project, it brought together a diverse group of about 40 Muslims including community leaders, activists, writers, bloggers and opinion leaders, the youngest of whom was 21. The course, Best Practices for Media Management, ran over two days and was conducted by New York based Fenton Communications. The areas covered were:
Last week I met up with some friends for a post-Ramadan/Eid meal. One of our number, Kamran from Peterborough, is a real connoisseur when it comes to scents he seems to have a nose for these sort of things, he usually has some interesting scent that he carries around. As much as I like oud, I have always been on the look out (or should that be “sniff out”?) for something else to get my nasal passages excited and to…