Asmaa Hussein (author and founder of Ruqaya’s Bookshelf) is joining IHRC from Canada, for two exclusive author evenings to discuss her international best-selling books, A Temporary Gift: Reflections on Love, Loss and Healing and A Place of Refuge. Asmaa Hussein is the owner of Ruqaya’s Bookshelf, a publishing company founded in 2015 that is dedicated to representing authentically Muslim stories, with a focus on children’s books.
IHRC Bookshop are also offering 20% discount off all copies of A Temporary Gift and A Place of Refuge. The Discount Code is AHBOOKS2022.
Author Evening – A Temporary Gift 
Purchase A Temporary Gift here.
WHEN: Thursday, 23 June, 2022
6pm: networking with Asmaa Hussein
7pm: author evening with Asmaa Hussein
7.45pm: Q&A
TICKET: £5.80 per person – register here (limited spaces available; tickets are non-refundable)
WHERE: IHRC Bookshop (202 Preston Road, Wembley, London HA9 8PA) or watch the author evening LIVE on www.ihrc.tv, Facebook and YouTube.
This event is suitable for ages 14+
Refreshments and prayer facilities available.
Children’s Storytelling Session with Asmaa Hussein
WHEN: Saturday, 25 June, 2022, 3pm to 5pm
TICKET: £3 per child and £5.80 per adult/parent/guardian – book your tickets here!
Free for children 3 and under
WHERE: IHRC Bookshop (202 Preston Road, Wembley, London HA9 8PA)
Refreshments provided
Wudu and prayer facilities available
Suitable for ages 4+
Tickets are non-refundable
Email events@ihrc.org for any queries.
Author Evening – A Place of Refuge
Purchase A Place of Refuge here.
WHEN: Monday, 27 June, 2022
6pm: networking with Asmaa Hussein
7pm: author evening with Asmaa Hussein
7.45pm: Q&A
TICKET: £5.80 per person – register here (limited spaces available; tickets are non-refundable)
WHERE: IHRC Bookshop (202 Preston Road, Wembley, London HA9 8PA) or watch the author evening LIVE on www.ihrc.tv, Facebook and YouTube.
This event is suitable for ages 14+
Refreshments provided
Wudu and prayer facilities available
Qurbani 2022
Once again IHRC is collecting donations from those Muslims intending to perform their Udhiyya or Qurbani in places where the less fortunate can avail themselves of its sustenance and blessings.
In years gone by, in line with our commitment to helping the oppressed, we have sought out groups which are in dire need.
The Prophet Muhammad ﷺ said “The one who wholeheartedly performs Qurbani of an animal for reward, the Qurbani will serve as a barrier between him and hellfire.” [Hadith]
This year we are focusing on Yemen, Nigeria and the Rohingya in Bangladesh. In Yemen where the UN estimates that more than 377,000 people have died due to the conflict as of late 2021, adding that the war in Yemen has caused the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. The UN has also warned that 19 million people of Yemen’s population of 32 million could face hunger in 2022, including 160,000 likely to suffer from “famine-like conditions”.
In Nigeria for the families of many Islamic Movement supporters killed or injured, who are now unable to provide for themselves and are reliant on charitable donations for their essential needs. In the Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh. The nearly one million Rohingya refugees who are in exile in Bangladesh lack recognized legal status, which puts them on a precarious footing under domestic law and makes them vulnerable to rights violations.
TO DONATE YOUR QURBANI, PLEASE CLICK HERE.
Watch – Author Evening with Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan: Tangled in Terror
On 23rd May 2022, IHRC hosted an author evening with Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan on her latest publication, Tangled in Terror: Uprooting Islamophobia. Please click below to see the video.
Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan is a British spoken word poet, writer and speaker, known for her poem “This Is Not a Humanising Poem” and writing about life as a Muslim woman in England on her site, The Brown Hijabi. Manzoor-Khan is also the author of Postcolonial Banter, her debut collection of poems.
Below are new items available at our bookshop:
Modesty: A Fashion Paradox – Hafsa Lodi
Modest fashion has been gaining momentum in the mainstream global fashion industry over the past half-decade and is now a multi-billion-dollar retail sector. Its growing and now consistent appearance on high-profile fashion runways, on celebrities and in the headlines of fashion publications and news outlets, has shown that the modest fashion movement is hugely relevant to consumers. The newly emerging group of faith-influenced fashion brands who are driving the revolution, along with a new crop of Muslim fashion bloggers. These have helped catapult demure dressing trends globally.
This book speaks to the various personalities and companies who have helped shape the modest fashion industry into such a significant retail sector, while also exploring the controversies that lie at the heart of the movement, such as one pressing question: even if it covers the skin but is flamboyant, modeled with the purpose of attracting attention, and publicly promoted on social media, can fashion truly be modest?
Children of War – Ahmet Yorulmaz
Hassanakis is a young Muslim boy of Turkish descent growing up on Crete during WWI.
Fifteen generations of his family have lived on the island and until now he has never had any reason not to think he is a Cretan. But with the Great Powers tussling over the collapsing Ottoman Empire and the island’s Christians in rebellion, an outbreak of ethnic violence forces his family to flee to the Cretan City of Chania.
He begins to lay down roots and his snappy dress earns him the nickname of Hassan ‘the mirror’. As WWI draws to a close and the Turkish War of Independence rages, he begins a heady romance with the elegant Hüsniye. There are rumors that the Cretan Muslims will be sent to Turkey but Hassanakis can’t believe he will be sent to a country whose language he barely knows and where he knows no-one.
This powerful novel drawn from the diary of a refugee family evokes the beauty, complexity and trauma of Crete’s past and weaves it into a moving tale of an ordinary man living through extraordinary times.
Head Above Water – Shahd Alshammari
Head Above Water takes us into a space of intimate conversations on illness and society’s stigmatization of disabled bodies. We are invited in to ask the big questions about life, loss, and the place of the other. The narrative builds a bridge that reminds us of our common humanity and weaves the threads that tie us all together. Through conversations about women’s identities, bodies, and our journeys through life, we arrive at a politics of love, survival, and hope.
For more books, please check the IHRC Bookshop website.
