Salams and Greetings All,
We have finally recovered from the insanely busy weekend at the Global Peace and Unity Event in London. During the weekend, we got the chance to meet a lot of interesting people.
Saturday morning and already the crowds were building up, waiting to go in. The exhibitors were busy setting up last minute [...]
Posts from ‘October, 2010’
emel at the Global Peace and Unity 2010
Islamic Relief are recruiting
Greetings All
Our friends over at Islamic Relief have a few job vacancies that have opened up and they have asked us to post their ad here. So here goes -
Following our restructuring, Islamic Relief UK (IRUK) is looking for dynamic and passion driven individuals to lead its three respective departments.
As [...]
Baba Ali at GPU
Coming to the GPU this weekend? Well emel is delighted that Baba Ali will be our guest at the emel stand – E24.
Baba Ali’s GPU video is here
Looking forward to seeing you all there.
emel at the GPU 2010 this month
Join the emel team at the Global Peace and Unity event this year at London’s ExCel Centre. You’ll get the chance to meet some high profile faces who will be visiting the stall over the course of the two days. Baba Ali from UmmahFilms will be catching up with us (to promote [...]
‘Does this one work? Oh wait, how about this one? No, let’s go back to the first one!’
By Ali Khimji
Following a change of logo, Gap was faced with a mass online protest over its decision. More than 2,000 comments appeared on the company’s Facebook page, and 5,000 people became followers of an anti-Gap logo Twitter account. But those pale in comparison to the 14,000 parody logos that appeared [...]
“Now, I don’t want to go on a rant here, but….”
By Ali Khimji
Andrew Marr, presenter of his own BBC show, has labelled bloggers as “socially inadequate, pimpled, single, slightly seedy, bald, cauliflower-nosed young men sitting in their mother’s basements and ranting.”
As bloggers, we feel the need to respond to such hurtful comments. We’re definitely not socially inadequate, as you’re probably reading this through Facebook.
We’re not [...]
If you think you can’t wait to leave, maybe think again?
By Ali Khimji
If someone was sent to a place for a long time, and it was for reasons beyond control, you’d think that when given the chance to leave, that someone would jump at the opportunity.
However, this doesn’t appear to be the case in Abu Zabaal, Egypt’s last surviving leper colony. The doors have been [...]
Friday evening office round-up
Salams and Greetings All,
It’s approaching the end of the day today. It’s a relatively quiet day in the office, with our Creative Director and Lifestyle Editor off on a fashion shoot for out next issue. When I mean quiet, I mean in relation to our usual ‘print week’ mania. With the Global Peace and Unity [...]
Poo-wer
By Khadija Gulamhusein
Who says it’s difficult to be green? Or brown for that matter…Now every time you go for a poo, you could be saving a tree or mitigating the chance of a freak weather event. No really, I’m being serious. An innovative new pilot project in the UK will see human waste being used [...]
Tweet first, ask questions later
By Ali Khimji
There used to be a time when following someone could lead to some sort of reprimand, but we now live in an age where it is commonplace to follow a range of celebrities, as well as friends and family. (If you’re lucky, they may even follow you back).
In-case you [...]