Report and Video playlist: Against Genocide: is a new Palestine/Israel possible?

View this email in your browser DECEMBER 2024 Report, Photos and Video Playlist of the Muslim Institute Winter Gathering November 2024: Against Genocide – is a new Palestine/Israel possible? Videos of all the sessions are now available on You Tube. The full timetable can be found here The videos do not include the Q&A discussions, as these were not recorded so as to encourage and protect free debate during the sessions.  The full playlist can be accessed here. Click here for photos. On the first weekend of November fellows of the Muslim Institute gathered at Sarum College, Salisbury for our annual gathering. This year we came together with a diverse roster of speakers to educate ourselves and discuss and debate the ongoing killing and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians, military action by the Israeli state against Lebanon and the escalating destabilisation of the region. We invited speakers who could contribute expertise and personal knowledge of the history, politics and culture of the region, and who had unique and important perspectives and how we might build towards a lasting, peaceful and just solution to the conflict and the suffering of the Palestinian people. The Muslim Institute prides itself on its independence of thought and fraternal relations. Topics at the gathering ranged from the history of the Jewish and Muslim peoples in Bosnia, a geo-political overview of the present conflict, the history of Palestine told through culture, an eyewitness account of the massacre of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon in 1982, what anti-racism struggles in Britain can teach us, to dialogues with Jewish political and religious leaders from the UK. We also curated a live arts event celebrating contemporary Palestinian poetry and music. FORTHCOMING Critical Muslim 52: Genocide. A special 300 page edition of Critical Muslim, addressing this grave and pressing issue facing humanity and the international order. CM is free to all fellows of the Muslim Institute.  ******************************************** ALSO: Watch the video of the 9th Annual Ibn Rushd Lecture: The History of Muslim Women in Britain held in July 2024, the Inaugural Annual Ibn Sina Lecture held in April 2024 at Leeds Civic Hall, and the book launch held in March 2024 of the new ground-breaking The Qur'an: A Verse Translation. CM51 Out Now: Desire Critical Muslim, the in-house journal of the Muslim Institute, launched its new website, to mark its 50th edition. The website is full of free articles and searchable listings of all the articles published in the journal.  In the latest issue: Ziauddin Sardar embraces the desires of the great Muslim poet Allamah Mohammad Iqbal: Jeremy Henzell-Thomas sees desire as a stick with two ends; Luke Williamson examines al Ghazali's way of balancing desires; Peter Matthews Wright's love of reading leads to desire for reforming Islam, Anonymous builds the ISIS Prisons Museum: Mohammad Sahily laments the suppression of desire after the Arab Spring, Boyd Tonkin reveals the true identity of the author of the epic romance Alt and Nino; Rachel Dwyer is wooed by Bollywood desires; Liam Mayo finds desires in concealed spaces; C Scott Jordan untangles complex desires; and our list of ten undesirables. Also in this issue: Marjorie Allthorpe-Guyton tours Venice Biennale 2024; Maya Van Leemput is astonished by the Postnormal Times MADANI Exhibition In Kuala Lumpur; Abdullah Geelah praises a novel history of Africa; Anna Gunin reveals insights from the Caucasus; Christopher B Jones dissects longtermism; Naomi Foyle reads enchanting new poetry; Hassan Mahamdallie traces his Trinidadian roots; Amandla Thomas-Johnson experiences life after Hurricane Beryl; short stories by Alev Adil and Amenah Ashraf; and poems by Allama Muhammad Iqbal and Kabir. Read the introduction to the issue for free here About Critical Muslim: A quarterly publication of ideas and issues showcasing groundbreaking thinking on Islam and what it means to be a Muslim in a rapidly changing, interconnected world. Each edition centers on a discrete theme, and contributions include reportage, academic analysis, cultural commentary, photography, poetry, and book reviews. To order this issue and subscriptions click here.  All fellows of the Muslim Institute get a free copy of each new issue of CM  worth £60 a year.    info@musliminstitute.org  |  www.musliminstitute.org Note our new postal address: Muslim Institute, Canopi, 82 Tanner Street, London, SE1 3GN Copyright © 2024 Muslim Institute, All rights reserved. You are on our list because you have volunteered your email to us.

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