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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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Mona Chalabi on the joy and trauma behind #1 Happy Family USA

1 week ago | hyphenonline.com | Leila Latif

The field of animation allows creatives to truly let loose, and #1 Happy Family USA from Emmy-nominated actor, director and producer Ramy Youssef (Ramy, Mo, The Bear) is no exception, mining the darkest of laughs and the most surreal of images amid news cycles often choked with heartbreak. The new Amazon Prime comedy, billed as being “from the childhood nightmares of Ramy Youssef”, blends autobiographical humour with razor-sharp cultural critique.
Will Nigel Farage’s Reform UK win big in 2025 local elections?

1 week ago | hyphenonline.com | Shehab Khan

There’s a striking image doing the rounds: Nigel Farage, holding up the Sun’s front page from Tuesday with the phrase “Britain is broken” plastered on it. It’s a huge win for Farage and Reform UK, as those three words are Reform’s campaign slogan. While the Sun hasn’t officially endorsed Farage’s party, the fact that it’s running his opinion pieces and using his catchphrase on the front page makes it feel like that could be on the way.
Unbearable workloads are making teachers quit UK classrooms

1 week ago | hyphenonline.com | Aisha Rimi

When Mariya Majid became a teacher in 2017, her expectations were idealistic. She imagined herself guiding young people to academic success and offering the kind of support she wished she’d had at school. As someone who had rarely seen teachers who looked like her, she hoped that her presence in the classroom could be an inspiration for children of all backgrounds.
The Muslim-owned gyms making workouts more inclusive - Hyphen

1 week ago | hyphenonline.com | Yousra Samir Imran

From Batley to Cardiff, women-only health clubs are changing the face of gym culture
Donald Trump has U-turned, but the turmoil is just beginning

2 weeks ago | hyphenonline.com | Shehab Khan

When Donald Trump last week unveiled a long list of tariffs that the US would begin charging on imports from other countries, he ushered in one of the most significant reversals in global trade policy in decades. On Wednesday night, he U-turned on some of those tariffs. But the impact of this moment is still profound. For days since the announcement that the US would hit most of the world with tariffs, financial markets have been in freefall. New York’s S&P 500 has taken a huge hit.
'Essential to the community’: Slough fights back against library closures

2 weeks ago | hyphenonline.com | Saman Javed

Families, business owners and local councillors in Slough are battling to save two libraries ahead of a crunch meeting that will decide their future next month. Chandra Muvvala, an independent councillor for Langley Marish, who is leading the campaign to save Langley and Cippenham libraries, is asking local families and politicians to join a protest outside council offices on 24 April.
inside the UK's post office takeaways

2 weeks ago | hyphenonline.com | Nylah Salam

Post offices were once vital community hubs, depended on by the nation as places to buy stamps, send parcels and pay bills. Nowadays, paperless billing and payment services have streamlined our financial transactions, while email and messaging apps have drastically reduced the need to communicate by post. According to postal services regulator , 6.6bn UK-addressed letters were posted in 2023-2024, a 67% decline in 20 years from a peak of 20bn annually.
Sepideh Gholian's recipes from an Iranian prison

2 weeks ago | hyphenonline.com | Ammar Kalia

“Women are second-class citizens in Iran and in prison they are oppressed even more,” Maziar Bahari says. The Iranian journalist and film-maker is calling from his London home, recounting the tangle of events that led him to help edit and publish The Evin Prison Bakers’ Club, a remarkable prison memoir-cum-cookbook written by Sepideh Gholian, the 30-year-old political activist who has been in and out of Iranian jails since her first arrest in 2018.
When we lose relatives, it’s up to us to continue their stories

2 weeks ago | hyphenonline.com | Ammar Kalia

Before I knew who I was, I knew I was an immigrant. As long as I can remember, before I had a solid sense of self, passions, even personality, my parents would explain my brown skin. They told me that we hailed from pre-partition India and that my great-grandparents emigrated from there to Kenya and Uganda. In the mid-1960s, when those east African countries were gaining independence from British rule, my grandparents decided to settle in England, the place we have remained since.
Review: Sikander is an irresistibly explosive Bollywood drama

2 weeks ago | hyphenonline.com | Leila Latif

In Sikandar, director AR Murugadoss delivers the kind of high-energy, all-singing, all-dancing action drama for which Bollywood is so beloved, propelled by Salman Khan’s movie-star presence. Khan stars as the eponymous Sanjay “Sikandar” Rajkot, in the type of role one could easily imagine Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson playing in a Hollywood remake.