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Posts in ‘2009’

Powerlist gets nominated for PR Week Award

The Muslim Women Power List campaign which emel sponsored along with The Times (featured in April 2009, issue 59) has been nominated for the prestigious PR Week Award.

Small Steps

This is my transcript from today’s Wake up to Wogan show. What is your small deed that could help change your life? Leave a comment below the post.
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I am – I confess – terribly unfit. It affects my life because I have – with three children, a full time job, a fair amount of speaking [...]

emel on the BBC’s Culture Show

An old video of emel being covered by the BBC’s Culture Show

Going to print – issue 59

Caffeine is our best friend.  We’re going to print today. The designers are getting ready to upload the magazine to the printers and the editorial team are doing some last minute proof reading.

Eco-Jihad?

The big green issue. The emel green issue. The ‘your planet needs you’ issue. We came out with a number of names to label one of our most prized issues of emel. In the end only Eco-Jihad seemed to hit the mark.

Blogging Perseverance

The emel team, particularly the feature’s editor, Somaiya Khan, have been wanting me to blog for a long time. I have always resisted, telling them, “life is busy enough.” But they persisted. And persistence – as it tends to in life – won. So here I am with my first blog entry and my first [...]

Print Week

Having just finished the 10 o’clock meeting, there is a buzz around the office as everyone scatters to finish off their tasks for the day. A gentle murmur can be heard as the editorial team tap away at the keyboards finalising copy. The designers are laying out pages and tweaking images with their dual [...]

Welcome to the emel blog

Welcome to the emel blog. This is one of the latest features to be implemented into the new emel website, allowing users to start a conversation and to leave comments on topical stories as they come out.

The blog also allows the emel Team to interact with the community and share experiences from within the office, [...]