Nadeine Asbali

Nadeine Asbali

Asbali

Nadeine Asbali is a freelance writer and secondary school teacher based in London. She is the author of Veiled Threat: On Being Visibly Muslim in Britain

 

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British Muslims labour through Ramadan to make ends meet

The cost-of-living crisis in the UK is pushing more Muslims into poverty. Already disproportionately disadvantaged, many British Muslims have been forced to work through the nights of Ramadan, causing untold stress on their mental health and faith.

06 April, 2023

UK Teachers’ strike: Our government can't be trusted

The UK government and media are not holding back in demonising teachers who went on strike over poor working conditions and pay. But amidst state cuts they are the ones fighting for the future of education and our children, argues Nadeine Asbali.

20 March, 2023

The Met police recruitment catwalk ignores Muslim distrust

The police modest fashion show at the London Muslim Shopping Festival encouraged recruitment and trust. This was completely tone-deaf and it ignored the targeting of Muslims in the name of 'fighting terror', argues Nadeine Asbali.

06 March, 2023

Prince Harry: Brown lives are cheap for the British monarchy

Be warned of the liberal celebration of Prince Harry’s ‘regrets’ in his upcoming memoir, Nadeine Asbali writes. The Royal's supposed anti-racism should be questioned given his dehumanising depiction of the 25 Afghan people he killed as a soldier.

09 January, 2023

New Trojan Horse report reads like an Islamophobic tirade

The new report from the conservative think-tank into the Trojan Horse scandal and the podcast that exposed it as a hoax is riddled with anti-Muslim sentiments and dismisses evidence of state-sanctioned Islamophobia, writes Nadeine Asbali.

19 December, 2022

Hajj tour upheaval forces UK operators to juggle with faith

A haphazard decision to centralise the Hajj booking system by Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Hajj is threatening to endanger hundreds of Hajj booking operators across Europe. Given their ubiquity on the high street, what happens next is of interest.

30 June, 2022

Muslim parents shield children from abuse by home-schooling

In the face of public neglect, many Muslim parents have turned to home-schooling to protect their children's futures, with recent cases of discrimination and the legacy of the UK's Prevent strategy contributing to this trend.

13 April, 2022