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2 months ago | 
hyphenonline.com | Weronika Strzyżyńska
Agata Wojtowicz, president of Tatra Chamber of Commerce (TIG) in Zakopane, struggles to explain the phenomenon. A small Polish resort town nestled at the foot of the Tatra mountains, Zakopane was popular with tuberculosis patients in the late 1800s. In the 1900s, it was favoured by avant garde artists, including Stanisław Witkiewicz and the sculptor Władysław Hasior.
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2 months ago | 
hyphenonline.com | Weronika Strzyżyńska
In 2023 Rayna Carruthers travelled to Jordan to learn Arabic and volunteer with a refugee charity and began taking portraits of the women she met. Photograph courtesy of Rayna Carruthers/Nick DerenziRayna Carruthers is a photographer based in Edinburgh using art to explore migrant experiences.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
hyphenonline.com | Weronika Strzyżyńska
“A lot of the conversation about abortion access here in the US is steeped in Christianity,” says Ja’Loni, an abortion doula working in Georgia. “Even when pro-choice initiatives are presented as targeting faith-based communities, it sort of defaults to Christianity.”Ja’Loni avoids sharing their full name online due to the nature of their work.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
hyphenonline.com | Weronika Strzyżyńska
Jamila Bi had always wanted to pick up a bow and arrow. Archery is one of the sunnah sports and there are several hadiths citing the prophet Muhammad’s praise for the discipline, she says. For years it seemed inaccessible and exclusive, with few local clubs and high entry costs. But in 2021, while the country was shuttered by Covid-19 lockdowns, her curiosity was sparked once again. “The pandemic put my life in perspective.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
hyphenonline.com | Weronika Strzyżyńska
GB News mentions the word “sharia” twice as often as BBC News and Sky News combined and appears to “hate Muslims”, according to the authors of a new report on the channel’s coverage of Islam. The report, published on Tuesday by the Centre for Media Monitoring (CfMM), found GB News had broadcast almost as much coverage of Muslims and Islam over two years as its larger rivals put together, and appeared to have an “unhealthy obsession” with the subject.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
hyphenonline.com | Weronika Strzyżyńska
Former IRA hunger strikers, joined by a former British soldier from Belfast, will lead 1,000 volunteers in an Ireland-wide sponsored fast on 12 December to raise money for Palestinians and highlight the complicity of western governments in the ongoing siege of Gaza. The Hunger for Justice event has been organised by Nenagh Friends of Palestine, based in Nenagh, Tipperary, with participants across the island in both the north and the republic.
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Nov 29, 2024 | 
hyphenonline.com | Weronika Strzyżyńska
The police takeover of a decades-old Kurdish Community Centre and the arrests of seven Kurdish community members on suspicion of terrorism have prompted a wave of protests across north London. A crowd of Kurdish and Turkish protesters and other residents walked down Green Lanes in Harringay yesterday, demanding the centre’s re-opening and the release of those arrested during Wednesday’s police raid. By the evening, some protesters were camping outside the centre and had announced a hunger strike.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
hyphenonline.com | Weronika Strzyżyńska
Just over 123 years ago, on 31 October 1901, a crowd gathered in Anfield Cemetery, Liverpool, for the funeral of a young widowed mother, the daughter of an Irish market porter. The vast majority were not mourners but curious onlookers and journalists, there to witness the burial of “the first lady ever converted to Islam in England”, as the event was described in the next day’s newspapers.
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
hyphenonline.com | Weronika Strzyżyńska
For the first time, an extensive collection of artefacts from the Islamic world amassed by the acclaimed designer and leading figure of the Arts and Crafts movement William Morris is on public display. The exhibition, held at the William Morris Gallery in east London, opened on 9 November and will run until 9 March 2025.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
hyphenonline.com | Shehab Khan |Weronika Strzyżyńska
Kemi Badenoch won the Conservative leadership election on Saturday, defeating her opponent, Robert Jenrick, and becoming the first Black woman to lead a major British political party. The former shadow housing secretary secured 56.6% of the 95,000 votes among eligible party members. “The time has come to tell the truth, to stand up for our principles, to plan for our future, to reset our politics and our thinking,” Badenoch said in her acceptance speech. “It is time to get down to business.
