Posted on 27 September 2008 by Halima Khatun
Earlier this year, I reported on the Muslim Writer Awards, a prestigious award ceremony which celebrated the cream of unsung talent within the UK Muslim community.
The event attracted big media names such as Jermaine Jackson and James Caan, but without question, the show belonged to the winners - they showed wit, creativity, and passion in their [...]
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Posted on 23 September 2008 by Pras Geng
Arvind Devalia is a performance coach, speaker and author of Get the Life You Love and Live It, a life coaching bible to those who want to improve their lives. Before he got into the world of self growth and personal development, he worked for many years in IT and Marketing. After a visit to [...]
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Posted on 03 June 2008 by Farhana Shaikh
Tahmima Anam has become the first Bangladeshi writer to win the Overall First Book Award at The Commonwealth Writers Prize 2008. The winners were announced at the Franschhoek Literary Festival in South Africa on May 18.
The Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, an increasingly valued and sought-after award for fiction, is presented annually by the Commonwealth Foundation. The [...]
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Posted on 22 April 2008 by Aliya Razaaq
Out on DVD, ‘Brick Lane’ is a film that comprises many threads; love, passion, political unrest, and most of all a personification of the hundreds of women who come to Britain each year in the predicament of an arranged marriage.
Adapted from Monica Ali’s bestselling novel of the same name, Brick Lane is the [...]
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Posted on 01 April 2008 by Kaynath Parvez
InsideDesi bring you Kia Abdullah, as never seen before.
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