Topic: London

Darbar Festival celebrates 20 years bringing Indian classical music to the UK

This year’s event at London’s Barbican Centre highlights the healing elements of the ancient tradition alongside shows from pioneering artists

Ammar Kalia
Somali Week 2025 is telling real stories on their own terms

From a theatrical premiere to film, literature and family days, the annual event continues to break new cultural ground

Aisha Rimi
Can the Greens and Your Party take Labour’s remaining Muslim vote?

With Green membership surging under Polanski, and Corbyn and Sultana seemingly having buried the hatchet, hesitant Labour backers have new choices

Saman Javed

Daddies and Diapers are building a new community for young fathers

Opening up about their role as parents and spreading a message of positivity, these four friends are winning fans across social media
Inquest finds Black Muslim woman died after missed opportunities in care

Ayaan Ali Waeys died of natural causes, coroner concludes, but says medics had chances to ‘change course of events’
Lyrical jokes and creative insults: inside the world of Arabic dubbing

The people behind our favourite characters – Bluey to Captain Majid – rarely appear on screen, but you’ll recognise their voices. They are the invisible actors shaping childhoods, identities and language skills
Arab artists to look out for at Frieze London

We select the galleries from the south-west Asia and north Africa region showing at this year’s art fair in the capital
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
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