Human communication began with speech, the development of words to describe things and ideas. All society and culture began and was communicated orally.

When we come to a true realisation that ‘God knows best’ then we also come to an understanding that knows that each single human being carries his or her own story.

Here’s a story about how the United States elected Donald Trump. For many educated, thinking US citizens, Trump’s victory wasn’t just stunning, it was unthinkable, and it remains somewhat incomprehensible.

There has been a trend for some time within Islamic Studies, and amongst Muslim diaspora communities, of condemning rationalist narratives of our identities, religion, and history.

It is such a strange word. Even by English standards. Swastika. This odd combination of consonants and vowels makes for something almost as startling as the symbol itself.

In Ahmed Saadawi’s award-winning novel Frankenstein in Baghdad, Hadi the rag-and-bone man picks through the debris and carnage after the daily explosions and suicide attacks terrorising his city.

Norhayati Kaprawi, or Yati, as she is affectionately known, is a Muslim woman artist-activist from Malaysia. Trained as a civil engineer in Wales in the 1980s, she transitioned into full-time activism in the early 2000s.