This is… Inua Ellams. You should get to know.

Inua Ellams is a poet, playwright, performer and graphic designer. Or rather, a wordsworth, peruser and interloper traversing different worlds with rhythm and slice. His writing and performance comes with ornate detail and structure that straddles his Nigerian roots and British upbringing. Layered in richness and full of iconographic imagery – he presents British audiences with a hologram of an immigrant’s creative coming of age.

As it happens, This Is Worldtown dropped by New York Fashion Week (NYFW) this month.
In the first of our coverage, feature contributor Shida Salehi of The Perfect Pairing, shares insights and images from the front row, at the NYFW debut show of Farai Simoyi, of Zimbabwean heritage, now making her dream come true in NYC.
The show took place at the Skylight West venue, Sept 13th 2010.

Feature by Danah Abdulla of The Yuppie Activist :: I collect postcards. A box I keep at home contains numerous postcards from across the world, many from places I have visited, and some from places I have yet to discover. On my most recent trip to Palestine, my first since 2002, I entered every shop in Ramallah looking for a postcard of a city other than Jerusalem or Bethlehem. I was unsuccessful. And then I thought to myself, what would a postcard of a Palestinian city resemble?

In November, 76 Tamil refugees escaped Sri Lanka on a rusty freighter. They arrived in Victoria, where they were met by RCMP and Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA) officials, who promptly jailed them for three months on allegations of terrorism. It would be fully half a year before the CBSA would admit that it had never had any evidence.

We received this callout for an incredibly relevant project, which especially stands out in light of growing Muslim defamation and anti-Islamic sentiment in the United States. The Ground-Zero Islamic Centre debacle has stirred a few …

By Reem Rahman.

This week, 1.6 billion Muslims around the world welcome the start of the holy month of Ramadan. Understanding the month of Ramadan not only highlights the essence of Islamic practice but also reveals …

How does narrative transform understanding on a personal basis and in the society around us? This is a question that informs, yet can complicate issues of sexual health - especially through a gendered lens. Narrative …

I’m in Vienna at the International AIDS Conference, an event with 20 000 delegates in attendance from over 185 countries. With pushing boundaries the mantra, sexualized messages intermix with inter-faith celebrations and …

The Chicago-based Inner-City Muslim Action Network (IMAN)’s urban festival of music, faith and social justice took place on June 19th to an audience as diverse as the cultures represented onstage at Marquette Park. The festival, …

And just like that, one month later, the magic is over. If you’re like us - the withdrawal has hit you hard and all your freetime is now spent Googling the names of those previously unknown players for some Wikipedia insight into their lives, replaying videos of the greatest - and ugliest - moments and checking the stats on how likely Ghana is to take the next one home (we all need a feel good story, don’t we?). Through the lens of an all-encompassing, universal and non-elitist game of football, South Africa’s had a new platform on which it can be showcased. And with football as the focal point, what exactly did journalists, commentators and spectators expect from an “authentically” African World Cup? (Surely, it wasn’t Shakira’s Waka Waka as the break-out hit of 2010).