Section: Culture
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Attenborough at 100: how millions were able to see and appreciate the wider world
As the BBC marks Sir David Attenborough's 100th birthday with Making Life on Earth, Leila Latif reflects that aside from astonishing longevity, his impact often comes down to getting people to care enough to look
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Sketchy Muslims: women-led comedy that’s ‘halal but not cringe’
After meeting at a writers’ workshop, Noor Sobka and Luna Al-Kaisy are breaking down barriers and putting Muslim performers in the spotlight
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The Amsterdam venue turning audiences into storytellers
At Mezrab, an open, participatory model is reshaping who gets to tell stories — and how culture is made in the city
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Seemab Gul on Ghost School: ‘Education is about questioning everything around us’
The director’s debut feature film offers a haunting meditation on the place of women and girls in Pakistani society
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Smash Bengali: ‘I’ve realised that someone like me could be completely loved by the mainstream’
The award-winning comedian on fame, representation and why unorthodox career choices can be the secret to a happy life
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The Muslim faith school helping students speak for themselves
The Madani Schools in Leicester are designated centres of excellence for oracy. Here’s how they’re using debating and Shakespeare to build confidence for the future
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Sohrab Hura on the strange duality of life in Kashmir’s winter
The Magnum photographer's new book Snow poignantly captures the humanity of the region, with the people 'the most important focus of all'
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Singer-songwriter Ahmed Eid: ‘Even when hope seems far away, it’s still somewhere’
The Palestinian multi-instrumentalist on his eclectic debut album, filled with rage and despair — but mostly hope
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Andy Serkis’s Animal Farm softens the blow of Orwell’s satire
Despite some sacrifices of the novel’s bite, this animated adaptation contains clear echoes of a contemporary political landscape in which belonging is conditional
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Another Sky brings together a constellation of experimental sounds
Returning for its third edition, the grassroots London-based music festival provides a showcase of boundary-breaking artists from the Swana region
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Tahmina Begum’s Womanhood: exclusive extract
Starting in 2017, the author chronicles the hopes, dreams and experiences of three South Asian Muslim women in the UK. Their stories are told in her new book
