Event Archive
Event Archive
Framing Muslims was inaugurated on September 8th 2007 with a one-day workshop at SOAS, University of London. Over the course of the project a number of events are taking place, including a seminar series pairing scholars, journalists and practitioners working on aspects of the representation of Muslims. Venues alternate between the fund-holding institution, the University of East London, SOAS, and Senate House, University of London, but in due course the project will also travel, visiting venues both nationally and internationally. In the Autumn of 2007, Framing Muslims combined with the Inter-University Postcolonial Seminar series, run by Professor Susheila Nasta of the Open University Postcolonial Research Group, to explore ‘Postcolonial Muslim Cultures’.
In this archive you will find a selection of audio recordings from some of these events, available to download as podcasts. Click on the podcast logo to subscribe. You can listen to these in MP3 format or you can download a free QuickTime Player plugin to be able to hear the podcast in Apple Quicktime format, this format has clicable Chapter breaks.
Kamran Pasha - Mother of the Believers - reading and discussion
Last Updated on Monday, 11 January 2010 09:15
Friday, 4 December 2009
4.30 - 6.00pm
Venue: Room 4418
Fourth Floor, SOAS Main Building
Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG
About the Novel
Written in beautiful prose and meticulously researched. Mother of the Believers is a compelling work of historical fiction that portrays an empowered Muslim woman who helped user Islam into the world.
About the Author
Kamran Pasha has published with Simon & Schuster's Atria Books his debut novel, Mother of the Believers, an historical fiction tale showing the rise of Islam from the eyes of Prophet Muhammad's teenage wife Aisha. His next book Shadow of the Swords, a love story set amidst the Crusades is due to come out in 2010.
Kamram is a writer and producer for NBC's highly anticipated new television series 'Kings', which is a modern day retelling of the Biblical tale of King David. Previously he served as a writer on NBC's remake of 'Bionic Woman', and on Showtime Network's Golden Globe nominated series 'Sleeper Cell', about a Muslim FBI agent who infiltrates a terrorist group.
Registration
The event is free and open to the public but booking is essential.
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Perspectives from Britain and North America
Last Updated on Monday, 11 January 2010 09:13
9am-5pm on Saturday, 5 December 2009
List of Participants*
- Hisham Aidi (Editor, *Black Routes to Islam*)
- Nabil Matar (Author, *Islam in Britain, 1558-1685)*
- Haideh Moghissi (Author, *Feminism and Islamic Fundamentalism*)
- Kamran Pasha (Writer, *Sleeper Cell *and Author, *Mother of the
Believers*)
- Sherene Razack (Author, *Casting Out: The Eviction of Muslims From
Western Law and Politics*)
- Amena Saiyid (Freelance Journalist, *Dawn*, *The News*)
- Steven Salaita (Author, *The Uncultured Wars*)
- Tim Jon Semmerling (Author, *‘Evil’ Arabs in American Popular Film*)
- Mona Siddiqui(Author, *How to read the Qur’an*)
- Pnina Werbner (Author,* Imagined Diasporas among Manchester Muslims) *
*Themes include:*
- Historical perspectives
- Production and Reception of images
- Representation and Power
- Race, ethnicity and gender
*Registration*
The event is free and open to the public but booking is essential. To
register please contact: Centres & Programmes,
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7898 4892 /3
*Enquiries
*Amina Yaqin
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Venue: MAL 416, 4th Floor, Birkbeck, University of London, Malet Street,
Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7HX
Map: http://www.bbk.ac.uk/maps
Farahad Zama 23 0ctober 09
Last Updated on Thursday, 29 October 2009 00:27
‘The Many Conditions of Love’Farahad Zama
Author reading with Farahad Zama who will be in conversation with Amina
Yaqin
Framing Muslims: New Directions - 25 June 2009
Last Updated on Wednesday, 19 August 2009 18:36
FRAMING MUSLIMS: NEW DIRECTIONSAfternoon Workshop in collaboration with the Ferguson Centre, Open University
Date: June 25th 2009 2pm
Venue: MR01, Wilson A Block, Ground floor
Milton Keynes Campus, Open University
Tuesday 14 July: Muslims Making Britain - One Day Workshop
Last Updated on Monday, 05 October 2009 22:25
Muslims Making Britain
This one-day workshop was jointly run by the AHRC-funded research projects Making Britain and Framing Muslims and was held on 14 July 2009 at SOAS, University of London
This one-day workshop explored facets of the historical and contemporary South Asian
Muslim experience in Britain, focused on the cultural productions of writers, artists, activists
and workers from 1870 to the present in order to explore how they have negotiated,
interacted with and sometimes resisted majority British culture; their varied and complex
identifications and affiliations; and the ways in which they might have re-imagined the nation.
By focusing on how South Asian Muslims have helped to shape British cultural and political
life across the period, this collaborative workshop foregrounded the depth as well as the
breadth of their contribution to the making of Britain. A report of the day is available further down this page
Read more: Tuesday 14 July: Muslims Making Britain - One Day Workshop
Others Within and Without: Muslims, Jews and European Identity, 14 March 2009
Last Updated on Thursday, 03 September 2009 21:36
This was a one-day workshop that explored the mutual and intersecting analyses of both Arab/Muslim and Jew as framed in a relational presence to each other and to Europe. It was held in SOAS on Saturday 14th March 2009.
Read more: Others Within and Without: Muslims, Jews and European Identity, 14 March 2009
Nadje Al-Ali and Sohail Daulatzai, Thursday 5 March 2009
Last Updated on Wednesday, 16 September 2009 11:58
Nadje Al-Ali presented a collection of photographic portraits of women since 1948 to the present day, documenting the changing multiple roles women have played in Iraqi life, which she argues are central to fate of the nation. Her talk was counterpointed by Sohail Daulatzai whose paper set the Afro American Muslim experience in a historical context derived from and critical of American colonialism, a debate he argues that has reached a complex nexus in the inauguration of Barak Obama. Podcasts and photos to be posted Friday 13th March.
Read more: Nadje Al-Ali and Sohail Daulatzai, Thursday 5 March 2009
Moustafa Bayoumi and Bob Cannon 5 February 2009
Last Updated on Wednesday, 02 September 2009 22:38
Moustafa Bayoumi presents an overview of his recent collection of Muslim experiences in contemporary America called 'How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being Young and Muslim in America Today, this is complimented by Bob Cannon's consideration of Social Justice through Multiculturalism or Cosmopolitanism in his paper 'Goodbye Multiculturalism – Hello Cosmopolitanism? Social Justice in a Divided World'
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