{"title": "Postmuslim", "start": "2026-11-11T18:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-11T20:00:00Z", "place": "Ibraaz", "address": "Mortimer Street 93, W1W 7SS London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/memoir", "religion/muslim"], "description": "A talk celebrating the publication of Postmuslim, Youssef Rakha's book tracing his journey from teenage years in Cairo, where he lost his faith, to his arrival in Britain as a young student, and his growing disenchantment with the politics of both places over three decades. Youssef Rakha will be joined by Samia Rahman for a conversation about writing a self that refuses to settle into the idealised, the caricatured, the essentialised. Moving between personal, political, and cultural histories, they will ask what it means to embrace the fullness of a Muslim identity in the twenty-first century, and whether a self can be made from multiple cultures that inspire as much ambivalence as belonging.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/postmuslim-111995/", "official_url": "https://ibraaz.org/whats-on/postmuslim", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a7c929bf211431297327c0136c60de2dc62c47eba52ea31006a8f1ef704b5225-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-11T18:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-11T20:00:00Z", "place": "Ibraaz", "address": "Mortimer Street 93, W1W 7SS London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Book Launch Leila Aboulela: Writing as Refuge by Bhakti Shringarpure", "start": "2026-11-10T17:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "SOAS University of London", "address": "10 Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, WC1H 0XG London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/africa", "literature/biography"], "description": "A book launch for 'Leila Aboulela: Writing as Refuge' by Bhakti Shringarpure, the first full-length biography of the acclaimed Sudanese writer and the first in a forthcoming series of African writers' biographies. Shringarpure, a Paris-based writer, editor and producer, explores Aboulela's childhood in Khartoum, her migration to Scotland and her journey to becoming a writer, weaving together interviews and literary criticism. The event is chaired by Ida Hadjivayanis, Director of the Centre of African Studies at SOAS.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/book-launch-leila-aboulela-writing-as-refuge-by-bhakti-shrin-43665/", "official_url": "https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/book-launch-leila-aboulela-writing-refuge-bhakti-shringarpure", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b5081017267e2d8397560b2747988e4a45aa08072c024c218e8f68ca58cdefaa-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Edward Said: Between Worlds", "start": "2026-11-15T14:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institut français du Royaume-Uni (Language Centre)", "address": "Cromwell Place 13, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "society/politics"], "description": "Edward Said: Between Worlds is a documentary film about the Palestinian-American scholar, intellectual, musician and activist Edward Said, followed by a Q&A with director Maiken Baird. Made with full access to the Said family and estate, it draws on unseen family archives, home movies, recordings, interviews, lectures and rare television appearances. Spanning seven decades from his childhood in Jerusalem through exile and his final years in New York, it traces his political awakening, personal struggles and lifelong search for home and belonging. Through his own voice and rare archives, it asks who has the right to tell their own story.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/edward-said-between-worlds-90539/", "official_url": "https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/cinema/edward-said-between-worlds/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/82b4b3b2d9b344880fbe44322e818f4f53cecb0bd8f48f6aab4b7dc3a3164721-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Muslim Europe & Britain: Tharik Hussain in conversation with Shafik Meghji", "start": "2026-11-12T19:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-12T20:30:00Z", "place": "Stanfords", "address": "Mercer Walk 7, WC2H 9FA London", "price": "£8.00; £16.99 ticket with Muslim Europe paperback", "price_from": "8.00", "price_to": "16.99", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/islam", "literature/travel"], "description": "An evening author talk at Stanfords in Covent Garden, celebrating the paperback release of Muslim Europe and the release of the first Bradt Guide to Muslim Britain and Ireland. Award-winning author and journalist Tharik Hussain, specialist in global Muslim heritage, speaks with travel writer Shafik Meghji, co-author of more than 45 guidebooks. Muslim Europe retraces 1,400 years of Muslim history across the continent, from Sicily and Malta to Spain and Portugal, while Muslim Britain and Ireland traces Islam in the British Isles from the 8th century to today, region by region. 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Author, historian and critic Colin Grant has travelled the country gathering stories of people who came to make a new life, including a Czech-Roma lawyer, an Iranian taxi driver, a Sierra Leonean actor and a Romanian police officer, asking questions about assimilation, identity, belonging and the emotional cost of migration. He will be joined in conversation by actress, director and writer Anni Domingo and writer Isabelle Dupuy. 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Made with full access to the Said family and estate, it draws on unseen family archives, home movies, recordings, interviews, lectures and rare television appearances. Spanning seven decades from his childhood in Jerusalem through exile to his final years in New York, it traces his political awakening, personal struggles and lifelong search for home and belonging, while asking who has the right to tell their own story.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/edward-said-between-worlds-36651/", "official_url": "https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/cinema/edward-said-between-worlds/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/82b4b3b2d9b344880fbe44322e818f4f53cecb0bd8f48f6aab4b7dc3a3164721-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Hidayah’s Book Club: Homosexual Intifada", "start": "2026-11-15T14:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-15T17:00:00Z", "place": "London LGBTQ+ Community Centre", "address": "Hopton Street 60-62, SE1 9JH London", "price": "£8", "price_from": "8.00", "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/middle-east/israel-palestine/palestine", "society/queer", "literature"], "description": "Hidayah’s Book Club: Homosexual Intifada is a book club session at the London LGBTQ+ Community Centre, open to queer Muslims and allies within the Hidayah community. Hidayah hosts a discussion of Homosexual Intifada: A Queer Palestinian Anthology by Hannah Moushabeck and George Abraham, a collection of essays, poetry, and personal reflections centring queer Palestinian voices. The anthology brings together stories of resistance, identity, joy, and survival, looking at queerness, homeland, and liberation. It offers a gentle, reflective space to discuss the book and connect with others, and attendees are welcome whether they have finished it or are just beginning.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/hidayahs-book-club-homosexual-intifada-41655/", "official_url": "https://londonlgbtqcentre.org/event/hidayahs-book-club-homosexual-intifada/", "image": ""}]}