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Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan

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Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan is a poet, educator and author of Tangled in Terror: Uprooting Islamophobia.

August 2024

  • Rehearsals for Peanut Butter and Blueberries at the Kiln

    double quotation markIn times of racist violence, loving others can feel like a vulnerable act – but it’s an essential one

    Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan
    Peanut Butter and Blueberries, my play about two young Muslims and how the world shapes their relationship, has become accidentally timely this summer

March 2022

  • Two Muslim men kneel and pray during a Black Lives matter march in London in 2020.

    double quotation markLook at ministers’ plans to secretly make Britons stateless and what do you see: Islamophobia

    Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan
    The idea is the result of toxic perceptions about Muslims and people of colour. It shows how prejudice creates shameful policy, says Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan, author of Tangled in Terror

November 2021

  • An employee from Pakistan in a spinning mill in Bradford, West Yorkshire, circa 1950

    double quotation markIt’s not just cricket. Racism against Yorkshire’s south Asian Muslims has a long history

    Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan
    Azeem Rafiq’s account and its reception point to the struggles of a community shaped by colonialism and exploitation, says writer and educator Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan

September 2021

  • Anti-racism protest

    Today in Focus
    A conversation about Islamophobia in the UK since 9/11

    Poet Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan and standup comedian Nabil Abdul Rashid both came of age in the early 2000s, as Britain’s Muslim communities were feeling the backlash from 9/11. In conversation with Nosheen Iqbal, they look back at the past two decades and ahead to what the future holds for Britain’s Muslims
    Podcast38:18

January 2020

  • Boris Johnson at the Conservative conference in 2017, a few days after Britain’s then foreign secretary was accused of encouraging Islamophobia in his Telegraph column.

    double quotation markUnder Boris Johnson, Islamophobia will reach a sinister new level

    Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan
    With the government’s plans pandering to prejudice, Muslims will be unsafe, says author Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan

June 2019

  • Bradford Literary Festival at City Hall in Bradford.

    Head to head
    double quotation markDoes Bradford festival's counter-extremism funding warrant a boycott?

    Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan and Saima Mir
    Does counter-extremism funding undermine this celebration of Bradford? Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan and Saima Mir go head to head
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