Section: Culture
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Three electric films from Muslim voices at the BFI London film festival
Khartoum, With Hasan in Gaza and Black Rabbit, White Rabbit are works that share a restlessness and refusal to be reduced to headlines or easy archetypes
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Grace and Poise: inside the dance school changing the face of ballet
At what’s believed to be the world’s first Muslim ballet school, children perform to poetry, not music, making the artform accessible to all
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Hyphen’s cultural guide to Black History Month
Here’s our pick of the films, books, podcasts and lectures that celebrate Black Muslim stories in the UK and beyond
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Composer Bushra El-Turk: ‘You feel like an alien, but maybe that’s the curse of being an artist’
The British Lebanese composer speaks ahead of the UK premiere of her new work Oum, which takes inspiration from Umm Kulthum’s classic Al-Atlal
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The theatre group putting refugees at centre stage
Phosphoros Theatre uses performance to tell stories of forced displacement, from the people who have lived through it
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Photo essay: the rich story of gold
For many Muslim women, jewellery is a repository of wealth and family history
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The teachers bringing marginalised stories into schools
As a new term begins, we meet educators who are highlighting Muslim histories and helping pupils become critical thinkers
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Top romance novels by Muslim authors
Our selection of chick lit and stories of forbidden love by female writers
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Brides: a sensitive coming-of-age film about girlhood and its radical edge
Nadia Fall’s first feature is more interested in the inner lives of its protagonists, two Muslim girls who journey to Syria, as it is in the manipulative geopolitics surrounding them
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Documentary chronicling a century-old nomadic journey through Persia gets a new score
Iranian composer Peyman Yazdanian is set to perform a live improvised soundtrack to Grass: A Nation’s Battle for Life
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‘You should make cinema, even in war’: Rashid Masharawi on From Ground Zero
The Palestinian film-maker on his latest work, curating 22 short films from artists on the ground in Gaza
