hijaab style

some on drew my attention to this rapper called M.I.A who is originally
 from Sri Lanka who appeared at a music award dressed like this.
..interesting i think..i like her style maashallah!

in the kitchen.....

We are currently planning a series or gardening, cooking and drumming workshop for and to empowered   young British Muslim women and their friends working, living, studying or just being in London, we want your feedback, your help, and your ides as right now we are processing and planning and preparing for lift off! By the grace of Allah!

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Karimah Bint Dawoud is the darling niqabi cook on  Sky TV. She isa currently finishing a book complimented by gorgeous mouth watering colour fotos taken by Karimah, this book has clear step by step methods for even the novice cook. Due to the un presedent responses to her TV cooking debut she was encouraged to write this book...
Her other media appearances include being one of Sheikh Hamza Yusef’s featured international women in a series called Riahla, for Saudia Arabia MBC TV, about acclaimed Muslim women in today’s society.
She was artist in residence at Leighton House Museum, the jewel of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, for the Festival of Muslims Culture and there interviewed by BBC 1’s Riz Lateef for the 6 o’ Clock News . She is the co founder of the Karamah Holistic Arts Organisation, winners of the Muslim News Alhambra Award of Excellence in the Arts. She is featured as a makeup artist and dress designer in top Muslim photographer, Peter Sanders a.k.a. Abdul Azeem’s internationally touring exhibition and coffee table book ” The Art of Integration”.
A convert to Islam, she is mixed race, Asian, African, Scottish and English, well socialised and widely travelled. She has worked as a makeup artist for Gucci, Revlon and Bride magazine as well as having a Fine Arts degree from Central St Martin’s School of Art. Her paintings exhibited at the Royal College of Art and in Bond Street galleries. She has travelled, lived and worked as a fashion model and makeup artist in many countries, where she enhanced her cooking skills by watching, asking and tasting the world’s culinary delights as she travelled - eating swordfish in the Blue Lagoon restaurant in Jamaica, sheep’s offal with Tunisian Bedouins, and discovering secret recipes in Rome. After converting to Islam she put down her brushes and white stilettos for a while and picked up the henna cone and the Quran and continued her physical and spiritual journey, through the cultures of Islam.
This book is a great gift for any young bride-to-be, willing to learn how to win the heart of her husband or should you want to expand your cooking skills after you finished your degree or learn some new dishes from your neighbour’s culture then this is the book for you. You may want to simply learn a little bit more about international tastes of the Muslim world