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No More Male-Only Panels, Meetings, Edited Volumes, etc., Muslims!! | Plays, Films & Plays
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Plays, Films and Plays. Articles, Interviews and Reviews by Naima Khan. No More Male-Only Panels, Meetings, Edited Volumes, etc., Muslims! May 29, 2015. Dear male Muslim scholars, we need you to act not talk. We need you to change a religious culture with your actions because they count for more than your words. If you’re invited to join a panel, a study group, a published anthology etc, don’t do it unless there are also female contributors. Freedom from the Forbidden. Guess what’s wrong with this photo.
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The Ethics of Art: David Edgar on Pentecost | Plays, Films & Plays
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Plays, Films and Plays. Articles, Interviews and Reviews by Naima Khan. The Ethics of Art: David Edgar on Pentecost. February 1, 2015. February 2, 2015. From the archives. first published on 10th March, 2012. Naima Khan talks to David Edgar about the complexities of making progress in art and his play Pentecost. The original idea he tells me was to create a play where the central character was the set, the central character here is a painting. You see, there are complicated reactions to art. That seems t...
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WACER away! | Plays, Films & Plays
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Plays, Films and Plays. Articles, Interviews and Reviews by Naima Khan. February 15, 2015. February 16, 2015. This content is password protected. To view it please enter your password below:. This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged to jilian. The Achievement is Not Mine. Best of London Feb-April →. Recent Posts: Plays, Films and Plays. Diversity is Dead, and Whiteness Killed It. Dara at National Theatre: An Orientalist’s wet dream. Radical Pluralism: An interview with Dr. Amina Wadud.
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Radical Pluralism: An interview with Dr. Amina Wadud | Plays, Films & Plays
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Plays, Films and Plays. Articles, Interviews and Reviews by Naima Khan. Radical Pluralism: An interview with Dr. Amina Wadud. March 4, 2015. Written for Media Diversified:. This Friday 6th March, just ahead of International Women’s Day, the Inclusive Mosque Initiative (IMI), a UK-based group who convene inclusive spaces for worship and community work, have invited Dr. Amina Wadud to lead their mixed-gender Friday prayer (Jummah). I recently had the opportunity to speak to Dr. Wadud, author of. In the fig...
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Best of London Feb-April | Plays, Films & Plays
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Plays, Films and Plays. Articles, Interviews and Reviews by Naima Khan. Best of London Feb-April. February 19, 2015. May 28, 2015. Some stuff I’m going to over the next few months that I thought you might like:. At Theatre Royal Stratford East. At Canada Water Culture Space. At Theatre Royal Stratford East. With Dr. Amina Wadud at St. John’s Church. Women of the World Festival. A week celebrating International Women’s Day on 8th March with some truly exceptional panels (others look completely trite...
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“Are you ready for this jelly?” Private View at Theatre Delicatessen | Plays, Films & Plays
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Plays, Films and Plays. Articles, Interviews and Reviews by Naima Khan. 8220;Are you ready for this jelly? 8221; Private View at Theatre Delicatessen. January 25, 2015. January 23, 2015. Are you ready for this jelly? Asks the press release. Are you ready for this jelly? Asks the programme. Are three white people really going to stage a play about media manipulation of women and centre it on a song made famous by three black women? I ask myself. Will they mention weaves? This entry was posted in Feminism.
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Plays, Films and Plays. Articles, Interviews and Reviews by Naima Khan. I’m Naima, I used to run the theatre and film desks at Spoonfed Media. I’m now a freelance writer specialising in the arts, Islam, feminisms and inclusive religion. I’m social media manager for Inclusive Mosque Initiative. I review theatre for The Arts Desk. I’m not currently in a position to work for free but if you’ve got a paid opportunity you want me to consider, please email naimski[at]hotmail[dot]co[dot]uk. Please get in touch!
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The Achievement is Not Mine | Plays, Films & Plays
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Plays, Films and Plays. Articles, Interviews and Reviews by Naima Khan. The Achievement is Not Mine. February 3, 2015. February 3, 2015. This entry was posted in opinion. Why World Hijab Day is Gross. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out. Notify me of new comments via email. Dara at Nati...
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Why World Hijab Day is Gross | Plays, Films & Plays
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Plays, Films and Plays. Articles, Interviews and Reviews by Naima Khan. Why World Hijab Day is Gross. February 2, 2015. Written for Hijab Tales Unpinned. I’m keen to thrash out my thoughts on World Hijab Day. But if I’m honest, one tweet summed it up probably better than I can:. Only serves to give people who shouldn’t have a voice on this issue a platform on which to speak over the ones who should. Amal M. AlHazred (@AmalAlHazred) January 31, 2015. By contrast, World Hijab Day seeks to simplify it, to d...
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Dara at National Theatre: An Orientalist’s wet dream | Plays, Films & Plays
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Plays, Films and Plays. Articles, Interviews and Reviews by Naima Khan. Dara at National Theatre: An Orientalist’s wet dream. May 29, 2015. May 29, 2015. Dara at Lyttleton Theatre, National Theatre. Written for Critical Muslim to be published in their July 2015 issue (hopefully). What does sexy wudu look like? It looks like this:. For director Nadia Fall, who has worked with National Theatre for over ten years, Dara is her biggest production to date. Her previous work includes the 2013 Bush Theatre p...
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