Radio Salaam Shalom

In the 2nd part of this video, actor/presenter Robert Llewellyn from LLEWTUBE.COM interviews television and radio presenter, author and speaker.. Yasmin Alibhai-Brown.

Background information:

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown came to the United Kingdom in 1972 from Uganda. She completed her M.Phil. in literature at Oxford University in 1975. She is a journalist who has written for various newspapers including: The Guardian, Observer, The New York Times, Time Magazine, Newsweek, The Evening Standard, The Mail and she is now a regular columnist on The Independent and London’s Evening Standard. She is also a radio and television broadcaster and author of several books.

Video notes: Part 2 from a video from Carpool by Robert Llewellyn. Carpool can be found online at www.llewtube.com every week.

In PART 1 of this video, actor/presenter Robert Llewellyn from LLEWTUBE.COM interviews broadcaster, author and speaker.. Yasmin Alibhai-Brown.

Background notes:

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown came to the United Kingdom in 1972 from Uganda. She completed her M.Phil. in literature at Oxford University in 1975. She is a journalist who has written for various newspapers including: The Guardian, Observer, The New York Times, Time Magazine, Newsweek, The Evening Standard, The Mail and she is now a regular columnist on The Independent and London’s Evening Standard. She is also a radio and television broadcaster and author of several books.

Video notes: Part 1 from a video from Carpool by Robert Llewellyn. Carpool can be found online at www.llewtube.com every week.

OUTGOING RSS STAFFER IS OFFERED NEW YORK STUDY OPPORTUNITY

Salaam Shalom’s former Station Manager Kyle Hannan has been selected for an intensive, executive development program at New York’s Columbia Business School this Summer.

The ADR Fellowship Program in Social Entrepreneurship & Cross-Culture Networks provides academic and business training in the context of Muslim-Jewish intercultural dialogue.

Mr Hannan said that there were still some important arrangements to finalise but the recognition for Salaam Shalom’s work was encouraging.

“It’s an incredible opportunity to get together with an amazing group of people as we share knowledge, spark inspiration and broaden solid business sense”, he said.

” It was a rigorous process and I’m grateful for the Salaam Shalom Board’s encouragement to apply. Even though I’ll be moving on from Salaam Shalom this April, I’ll make sure I feed back to the project everything I learn – and share what we’ve done here in Bristol with a new network of people who can work together to make intercultural dialogue everybody‘s business”.

For more on the ADR programme, visit http://www4.gsb.columbia.edu/execed/rothschild.

THE NEW JEWISH MUSEUM OPENS THIS WEEK IN CAMDEN

(as reported in the Jewish Chronicle. Read their full article here)

The Jewish Museum in London reopens this week after a £10m expansion project.  Designed by Long & Kentish architects, this triples the museum’s space. Its four main galleries are devoted to an introduction, history of British Jews, Jewish faith and the holocaust.

Founded in 1932, the Jewish Museum merged in 1995 with the Finchley-based London Museum of Jewish Life.

Museum director Rickie Burman said the team had faced the challenge of “how to reflect the Jewish community today in all its diversity”.

For a look at the BBC Culture Show’s feature on the reopening,  visit the following link:  http://bbc.co.uk/i/rdzcp/

Visit the Museum’s official website is http://www.jewishmuseum.org.uk.

Bristol-based journalist Iqbal Tamimi has been nominated for a prestigious award by The Muslim News newspaper.

(This article originally  appeared on the United Progressives website. We wish Iqbal all the best for the award ceremony next week. KYLE- RSS)

Tamimi, Editor-in-Chief at Palestinian Mothers Network for Human Rights, a Progressive Partner of United Progressives and frequent contributor to our pages, is one of three finalists for the Ibn Battuta award for excellence in media.

Photo: Iqbal Tamimi  Photo courtesy bristol24-7.com

The award is given to journalists who have demonstrated fair, accurate and balanced reporting on an issue involving Muslims nationally or internationally.

Educated at the University of the Westof England, and a member of the Bristol branch of the National Union of Journalists, Ms Tamimi is a volunteer at Radio Salaam Shalom – a pioneering online radio station that aims to bring together Bristol’s Jewish and Muslim communities.

The Palestinian poet and journalist of 17 years’ experience will be in London on March 15 for the gala awards night attended by Home Secretary Alan Johnson, Shadow Home Secretary Chris Grayling and Liberal Deomcrat leader Nick Clegg.

The awards are given by The Muslim News newspaper, the largest independent Muslim newspaper in Britain, which in its 17-year history has attempted to share the experiences of Muslims as the community carves out its place in society.