If tomorrow, God forbid, I were to cause the death of an innocent man with my car, minutes after sending a series of texts on my mobile phone, I’m guessing I’d spend the rest of my life riddled with guilt. What I wouldn’t do is go on television and lay the blame for my subsequent 12-week imprisonment at the door of . . . ...

In November 2012, President Obama became the first serving US President to visit Burma. In a historic speech in the presence of President Thein Sein and human rights activist Aung San Suu Kyi at Rangoon University, he addressed the need for an end to sectarian hostilities between Rakhine Buddhists and the mainly Muslim Rohingya. ...

Fascinating short film with Muslim Institute Fellow Rania Hafez talks about her childhood in Lebanon and her life in London. [video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWnVAqsHcik autoplay:0]

A mini renaissance seems to be occurring among the Muslims of West Bengal of which Kolkata is the State-capital. They have managed to create their own daily Bengali newspaper (Kalom), which is becoming as influential as those media outlets owned and run by the majority community. The publication covers both general news as well as stories ...

The Inclusive Mosque Initiative (IMI) is an inclusive prayer space which I was fortunate enough to come across late last year. It consists of Muslims who are very open to other approaches of worship and spiritual exercises. As such, I find myself very drawn to their activities and even contributing in my own very limited way. Last ...

In 21st century Britain people are all too comfortable with Muslims as part of the "other" communities, neatly compartmentalised into the non-white immigrant populations, with cultures that seem far removed from what is considered as European. Muslim communities are happy to be part of BME (Black and Minority Ethnic Group) ...

I went to see Zero Dark Thirty this weekend with great anticipation. I've always loved Kathryn Bigelow's movies – I'm a fan to an almost embarrassing degree. Like most people I liked the Busey-Keanu surf-and-bromance film Point Break, but I also loved the The Weight of Water, as well as Strange Days, The Widowmaker… ...

There is uproar in India at the brutal gang rape and murder of a 23 year old student on her way home from the cinema. Can we harness the international attention to this case to demand that the world's leaders commit themselves to a policy of zero tolerance of violence against women in the post-Millennium Development Goals ...

The proclaimed ‘failure’ of multiculturalism suggests the breakdown of a single process of integration. In fact, it is the term's capacity to overcome precisely this logic that reveals its continuing relevance in the process of nation-remaking. One of the long standing aims of political multiculturalism has been to ...

They say when unusual things happen they all happen together. A few weekends ago I experienced a chain of events which, although of greatly differing relevance, all contributed to a couple of days which were to be different and instructive in many ways. The first thing was that I took a train. I like train journeys, but I rarely travel ...