The Question of Escape
The Immigration Dilemma
Over the course of British history, the question of immigration has been a controversial one. The last 70 years has seen migration numbers increase; especially from those coming from South Asian countries; even though the original...
Nabila Sharma: Brutal
Nabila Sharma Breaks 28 Year Silence of her Imam Abusing Her
Childhood is an experience full of blissful memories. A time which should be spent tingling in the depths of curiosity and lost in taking advantage of the fact...
‘Shame raises stigma against people with a mental illness’
Nisha Chhabra gives a personal account of her fathers battle with Bipolar
I remember how I sat at the kitchen table in December 1993 with knots in my stomach, my mother cooking dinner for my ninth birthday party. "Do...
Girl Rising: Pakistan’s Push for Girls’ Education
The Asian Today spoke to writer and activist Bina Shah
The issue of girls’ education is a meticulously sensitive one. With traditional speculation combined with misguided misconceptions, statistics for girls’ education have started to decline in the Indian subcontinent. Statistically...
Many Asians sitting on a ‘Fertility Time-Bomb’ warns Expert
Dr Venkat: Asian couples are largely ignorant of their fertility 'time-bomb’
MANY Asians sitting on a ‘Fertility Time-Bomb’ warns Harley Street Fertility Expert
The Harley Street Fertility Clinic is using National Infertility Awareness Week (28th October to November 3rd) to raise...
Beauty Therapy Students Come First in World Skills UK Nail Art
Two Students nail themselves a place in the World Skills finals
Two students at South and City College Birmingham have fought off hundreds of competitors to nail themselves a place in the World Skills finals.
The two beauty therapy students took...
Whizzkid Suleman In New BBC Series
Leicester Entrepreneur Suleman Sacranie's starring role in Million Dollar Intern
A young entrepreneur is set to star in a new TV series which sends business whizz kids into struggling firms to help save them.
Suleman Sacranie, whose business MadaboutDeals is based...
Hajj: Journey to the heart of Islam
British Museum exhibit offers visitors a chance to experience Muslim pilgrimage
By Shelina Zahra Janmohamed
QAISRA Khan and I are standing in the Round Reading Room of the world-renowned British Museum in London.
Around us people are busy installing historic artefacts...
Muslims ‘feeling effects of rising food prices’, say Charities
Oxfam and MADE in Europe say Governments must act now
MUSLIMS across the world have been feeling the effects of rising food prices during Ramadan, says Oxfam and MADE in Europe.
Rising food prices and a lack of political will has...
Novelist Today: Massoud Kermani
Zeenat Moosa talks to the author about his debut novel ‘Visa’Massoud Kermani’s debut novel Visa highlights the highly-charged, politically controversial and deeply emotional subject of asylum seekers entering Britain today.
The author himself left Iran as a youth, subsequently...
