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Hyphen is a distinctive online platform dedicated to topics that matter to Muslims in the UK and Europe. With both long-standing and new communities increasingly influencing our cultural, political, and economic environments, Hyphen seeks to foster a space for both Muslims and non-Muslims to come together. Here, people can share ideas and build connections.

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Weekend with Guz Khan: ‘I’ll take the hit on life if I can have fun with food’

1 week ago | hyphenonline.com | Saman Javed

Guz Khan, 39, is a comedian and actor from Coventry. Khan worked as a secondary school teacher until he began uploading comedy videos to Facebook in 2014. That same year, he had his first stand-up gig at the Birmingham Rep theatre. Khan is the star and creator of the Bafta-nominated BBC series Man Like Mobeen, a comedy drama about a reformed drug dealer from Small Heath, Birmingham, trying to raise his younger sister and steer clear of trouble. The fifth and final season was released in May.
‘If I’d been taught what endometriosis was, I’d have known sooner’

1 week ago | hyphenonline.com | Saman Javed

“It’s like a block of ice is sitting on my brain and everything is numb,” says Hiba, 29, describing how she feels in the lead-up to her period. “I don’t go out, I cancel plans.
NHS pays ethnic minority workers from overseas less than white colleagues

1 week ago | hyphenonline.com | Saman Javed

Ethnic minority NHS staff who were born overseas earn less than their white colleagues even when they have the same qualifications and experience, the most comprehensive study ever carried out on the subject has found. The research, published in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, found that migrant Asian and Black healthcare workers were less likely to reach higher income pay bands than their UK-born white colleagues.
The National Trust explores its Islamic history

1 week ago | hyphenonline.com | Samir Jeraj

In 1818 John Barker was stationed in the city of Aleppo as consul for the Levant Company, which was chartered by the crown to manage trade with the Ottoman Empire. During his time in the ancient commercial hub, which now lies in the north of modern-day Syria, he sought out books and other artefacts that would appeal to his friends back home in England. One day, Barker saw an Arabic manuscript on “the tactics of the lance”, detailing Ottoman cavalry battle plans.
How to maintain healthy hair underneath your hijab

1 week ago | hyphenonline.com | Zeynab Mohamed

Haircare has always felt like a bit of a mystery to me. I put it down to two things: not knowing where to begin with the dizzying range of available products and treatments, and wearing the hijab, which led me to think I didn’t really need to care for my hair. But the hijab — alongside factors such as the weather, water quality, friction and hairstyles — can seriously affect the health of your hair.
Why Berlin needs its Turkish music festival more than ever

2 weeks ago | hyphenonline.com | Jessica Bateman

On Saturday 14 June, a flamboyant crowd of folk musicians in traditional Turkish outfits, belly dancing drag queens, hip hop artists and 1,500 fans will take over Berlin’s Kreuzberg neighbourhood, all headed to the Festsaal Kreuzberg for İç İçe — Germany’s only festival of contemporary Anatolian music.
The video game telling the story of the 1948 Nakba

2 weeks ago | hyphenonline.com | Thomas Hobbs

Video games can provide an escape from the world, but Palestinian developer Rasheed Abueideh’s latest game is achingly close to real life. “Just like my lead character, I am also struggling to keep my family safe right now,” he says. “Whether it’s forced displacement, or all the fatal attacks on resettlement camps, I’m living through the same horrors that my game depicts. It’s draining, as you can’t really switch off. I cry a lot,” Abueideh says.
The crisis of Muslim burials in Europe

2 weeks ago | hyphenonline.com | Jessica Bateman |Natalie Donback

In 2020, Sümbül Tarakçilar’s 40-year-old brother Ali died in Hamburg after a long battle with ill health. Most of his relatives have been buried in their native Turkey, but Ali — whose family preferred not to use his real name — was clear in the weeks before his death that he wanted to be laid to rest in Germany, the country he’d lived in most of his life, where his two young children might visit him regularly.
Italy’s tough citizenship rules to remain after low referendum turnout

2 weeks ago | hyphenonline.com | Cecilia Butini

A referendum proposal to soften Italy’s strict citizenship laws for many second-generation immigrants has failed despite a majority voting in favour, as it fell foul of the minimum turnout requirement. Just 30% of the electorate turned out to vote in Sunday and Monday’s referendum, which would have been binding had 50% of eligible voters taken part.
MPs criticise halal slaughter debate: ‘about prejudice, not animals’

2 weeks ago | hyphenonline.com | Saman Javed

A ban on the slaughter of animals without stunning them first would infringe on religious freedoms and stoke division, Muslim MPs said during a debate in parliament on Monday. The Westminster Hall debate was called after a petition on the subject earlier this year garnered 109,018 signatures. “In modern society, we believe more consideration needs to be given to animal welfare and how livestock is treated and culled,” the petition said.