Section: Culture
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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
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The cultural events you won’t want to miss in Europe this autumn
The summer sun is fading but fear not, European cities have more to offer with art, film and music
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What the Bradford school strike can teach us, 40 years on
In 1985, with far-right rhetoric on the rise, Muslim parents pulled their children from classrooms in protest against a controversial headteacher
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Venice film festival: the movies that matter are those that refuse to look away
Our columnist picks the top films by Muslim directors at an event where cinema collides with politics
