To celebrate Black History Month, Diyora Shadijanova recommends five books exploring Black British life, including works by Rageh Omaar, Hakim Adi, Symeon Brown and Johny Pitts.

Read the full list ⬇️
https://hyphenonline.com/2026/10/12/five-books-black-history-month-british-muslim/

Hyphen Festival is back and bigger than ever with special guests including @nazshahbfd.bsky.social, Big Zuu and Shabaz Ali.

Here are the full details, including how to follow the day live online.
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Sisters Countryside Club is helping Muslim women get outdoors, with activities such as horse riding, archery and hiking in a setting that accommodates their faith.

Aniqa Lasker joins the group for a horse ride along a trail in Ruislip Woods.
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The Amsterdam Andalusian Orchestra began as a way of connecting musical heritage to the present. Now it is challenging ideas of what belongs in the canon.

Tom Flanagan on its influence on the Dutch classical mainstream ⬇
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Comedian Ola Labib talks Portsmouth, Sudanese food, comedy and writing her memoir in Hyphen’s latest Weekend With Q&A.

Read the full interview ⬇️
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Ryan Marley’s documentary The Blind Couple from Mali, about Amadou & Mariam, offers a joyful and intimate look inside one of the world’s great musical marriages.
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Lucha libre wrestler Marduk Malik’s persona in the ring is carefully crafted, based on an ancient Mesopotamian god. Now, he’s opening the sport up to other young Muslims.
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Luton locals including a priest and community organisers have rubbished claims by Tory MP Blake Stephenson that there are ‘no-go zones’ in the town where ‘white people won’t go’.
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Religious hate crimes in England and Wales targeting Muslims are up 15%, new Home Office figures show.

Aisha Rimi has the full story.
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Ahmed Masoud’s satirical play, Application 39, is set in the near future and follows two characters in Gaza who hack the bidding process for the 2048 Olympics as a joke.

Read more ⬇
hyphenonline.com/2026/10/07/a...

Muslims in Holborn and St Pancras feel disrespected by the Labour Party, one mosque leader has told us.

Will it influence today's byelection result?
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‘Not having a mosque at all in 50 kilometres, it takes you back to the 1960s, to our parents’ generation.’

A group of cyclists raised an astonishing £79,000 at the weekend to help Cumbria’s first purpose-built mosque open its doors.
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📚What is #ESOL?

The abbreviation stands for English for speakers of other languages.

@bwhyphen.bsky.social, our editor in chief, explains how funding for ESOL provision has been cut over the years, and invites you to keep an eye out for our series of articles covering this important topic.

‘I want people to know that ESOL is building people’s capacity to participate in civic life.’

Dermot Bryers, founder of the charity English for Action London, speaks to Hyphen about government cuts and the importance of accessible language education.
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London’s first purpose-built mosque celebrates its centenary.
https://hyphenonline.com/2026/10/07/fazl-london-mosque-putney-centenary-100-years-1926-ahmadiyya-community/

‘Labour look like they’re reaching out to the Muslim community by putting forward a Muslim woman, but she isn’t willing to come and pitch her policies to the Muslim community.’

Saman Javed reports from Holborn and St Pancras ahead of Thursday’s vote.
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Turkish cuisine in the UK has long revolved around the charcoal grill, but that’s now changing.

Zaynab Asaadi goes beyond the ocakbaşı to track down regional street foods, pop-up restaurants and breakfast specialists ⬇️
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Aspiring English speakers in parts of West Yorkshire are being forced to wait up to two years for beginner ESOL classes because funding has lagged behind demand.

Full story by @lucascumiskey.bsky.social.
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‘At this point, it’s not mine, it belongs to the 5,000 performers.’

Nassim Soleimanpour on 15 years since the premiere of White Rabbit, Red Rabbit, one of the most performed plays in the world.
hyphenonline.com/2026/10/05/n...

🔴Exclusive: spending on English language courses aimed at non-native speakers has been slashed by nearly 40% in real terms since 2009, Hyphen can reveal.
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