Good evening all! It’s been a hectic start to the week here at emel; we’ve been working on putting the final touches to our new TV advert (watch out for it. We’ll let you know when it goes live) and sourcing ingredients for the next food shoot. Speaking of food, what are your favourite halal [...]
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Running on empty
Day 1 of Ramadan ‘10 is almost over at the office. Not surprisingly, it has been a relatively quiet day here. Our caffeine rich environment now lies barren as we wait for the last couple of hours to go. The team are busy wrapping up the Eid issue. I’m in the process of road testing [...]
Shoe-String Wedding
When Chelsea Clinton got married last weekend the event is estimated to have cost between $3-$5million. Chelsea’s Vera Wang dress alone came in at around $20,000. Such celebrity, high cost weddings are nothing new; with the exclusive pictures often being sold to the likes of Hello for upwards of £1million.
Yet, wedding extravagance is not the [...]
Hiroshima’s Ground Zero – Why Nuclear Weapons are Fundamentally Un-Islamic
August 6th – 65 years ago today a bomb codenamed “Little Boy” was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, which had been spared conventional aerial bombardment so that it would be a “pristine target”. With a radius of one mile from Ground Zero, the first effect of the explosion was blinding light, accompanied by [...]
What films make you cry?
Toy Story 3 has said to bring grown men to tears. Readers to BBC Online have been writing in with films that make them cry (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-10814813)
We had a quick run-round in the emel office to find out which films have brought tears to the eyes of our staff:
Bambi
ET
Sophie’s Choice
Shindler’s List
Step Mom
Beaches
Dev Das
PS I Love You
It’s [...]
Rekindling the lost art of letter writing
A couple of weeks ago, I received a letter from a friend of mine who I studied with last year. He made the effort to write out a physical letter and send it my way in a bid to check up on how life was going and also rekindle the lost artform of letter writing. [...]
Friday Round up> Ramadan issue teaser and resisting meringues
The Ramadan issue has just come into the office and it is looking amazing! We don’t want to spoil it for people but we think that you’ll really like it
Our Facebook page has become quite popular recently as we are trying to interact more with our readers. The page is seeing a lot [...]
Competitive Internship Programme at emel
Are you a dynamic, fast thinking, hard working individual with a passion for media? Then emel’s Competitive Internship Programme could be for you. The Programme will potentially lead to paid work / a full time editorial position.
emel is a Muslim lifestyle magazine. Based in North London, the small but dedicated and friendly team put together [...]
3 Step process on how to get unstuck
Around a week or so ago, I was working on the emel Facebook fanpage, when I came across this very interesting new and quirky website called Productive Muslim. They are promising to be brand that sets out to inspire young Muslims to become productive through Islam by applying a range of tried and tested techniques. [...]
Ten Tips to Show Our Love for Muhammad
So I went and viewed the Facebook, “Everybody Draw Muhammad” page, and I admit that I cried. Then I sat stunned for the next 15 minutes at my computer. You would have thought I would have known the types of images that people would have posted, but it was the vulgarity and debasement which so [...]