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In June 2025, Sagal Abdi spent the last £250 of her monthly paycheck on DJ decks from Facebook Marketplace. Now, the Birmingham DJ known as SaiSounds is on a mission to get Somali house music onto more dancefloors.
✍🏿 @anitamureithi.bsky.social
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The response to Henry Nowak’s murder is following a familiar pattern.
In his latest opinion piece, @tajali1.bsky.social looks at how the far right is exploiting a tragic death to push a politics of racial grievance.
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For National Bike Week, we celebrate Cycle Sisters UK.
It began as a small, informal bike ride. Now it’s a multi-city network helping thousands of Muslim women access the sport.
Read more here ⬇️🚲
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🔴An ex-Metropolitan Police officer has been found guilty of gross misconduct after sharing racist and Islamophobic social media posts, including calling the Qur’an a ‘terrorist handbook’, while serving with the force.
Full story by @anitamureithi.bsky.social:
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There has long been tension among the members of the Iranian diaspora around the political future of their homeland.
Read more from Niloufar Haidari on the families and friends who have fallen out over the Israel-US war on Iran.
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After Nidahl’s mother was diagnosed with leukaemia, she began using TikTok to encourage more people from Black and ethnic minority communities to join the stem cell register.
‘The issue isn’t the lack of compassion, it’s just the lack of awareness.’
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Acclaimed Italian-Somali writer Igiaba Scego discusses identity, visibility and why she no longer feels obliged to apologise for violence carried out in Islam’s name.
✍️Elizabeth Djinis
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Keir Starmer has been praised for his response to the murder of Henry Nowak and the ensuing police scandal.
But some of his own MPs say it doesn’t matter because no one is listening to him any more.
Shehab Khan’s analysis is here ⬇️
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A British-Pakistani doctor has developed a groundbreaking eye scan that can detect signs of diseases including dementia and diabetes years before symptoms appear.
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Muslims in Belfast are ‘terrified’ and have been expecting racist violence for months, with some families having stockpiled food because of their fear of rioting.
Saman Javed reports
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Dr Rayaz Malik is preparing to submit the technology to the European Medicines Agency for approval, which could see it rolled out in hospitals
