Just another dent in the damage...

After falling off my bike on Tuesday resulting in a mangled up mouth and thick lips I’ve been pretty miserable, but today I have some great news! Marjane Satrapi’s book ‘Persepolis‘ is being made into a 100% hand-drawn animation. The Independent have the word here. She is brilliant. If you haven’t read these books you [...]

I got a copy of Moazzam Begg’s ‘Enemy Combatant: A British Muslim’s Journey to Guantanamo and Back’ when I went to see him give a talk in London back in March and have finally got round to reading it. It’s been hard! Terribly heart-breaking in fact. At times I struggled to even read a [...]

Tehran has held an exhibition this week in order to promote Islamic fashion and female modesty with the aim to counter the influence of western dress amongst Iranian teens. Tehran’s Imam Khomeini mosque hosted the country’s first Islamic dress fair, in which ankle-length manteaus, or overcoats, and all-covering black chadors supplanted the sexually daring styles [...]

So in three weeks time I’ll be arriving in Mumbai!
Eleven mintues, seven bombs, one hundred and eighty three dead and seven hundred and fourteen injured (so far ) - SHIT. This is bad bad news only four days after the anniversary of 7/7. Already fingers are pointing to Islamic militants and Muslim fundamentalists operating in [...]