Abdul-Rehman Malik is a London-based journalist, educator, organiser and the Director of the Insight Film Festival that encourages filmmakers to make movies about ‘faith’. Formerly a contributing editor at Q-News, a pioneering Muslim current affairs magazine, he is currently programmes manager for the Radical Middle Way, an organisation that gives young Muslims the inspiration and tools to enable positive social change, promote social justice and combat exclusion and violence. A Canadian by birth, Abdul-Rehman was a columnist on religious affairs for The Toronto Star, from 1998 to 2003. An experienced educator and activist teaching history and dramatic arts, he began working as a freelance journalist attached to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) in 2001 and his radio documentary entitled “Ramadan at Ground Zero” – a look at New York’s Muslim community in the aftermath of 9/11 – was nominated for a prestigious Peabody Award.
Recent blog posts
- Religious broadcasting in a changing world June 17, 2022
- Lenny Henry and what the BBC is for June 9, 2022
- Heidi Thomas: Creator of Call the Midwife April 22, 2022
25 JUNE: JOIN US AT THE BRADFORD LITERATURE FESTIVAL
The face of religious Britain is evolving. Research suggests over the last two decades there has been a dramatic decline in the proportion of people who identify with Christianity, a substantial increase in those with no religious affiliation, and a steady increase in those belonging to non-Christian faiths. Against this back drop What is the point of religious broadcasting? Join us at the Bradford Literature Festival when we’ll be exploring what role religious programming serves in the contemporary context and what place it has in a multi-platform, multi-cultural, multi-faith and increasingly secular Britain. Panelists will include founder and CEO of Avanti Media Emyr Afan, MD of Cardiff productions Narinder Minhas and BBC TV commissioner Daisy Scalchi.
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