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Why are young Asian girls invisible when it comes to Eating Disorders?
Posted on March 1, 2014 1 Comment
When I think of an eating disorder, the first thing that comes to mind is the image of a young white girl who is painfully thin. The word anorexia has become synonymous with eating disorders as are the emaciated images of anorexic girls who are most likely to be white. Given the negative reporting around […]
‘Contextualising Islam in Britain’ II project
Posted on October 21, 2013 Leave a Comment
In 2011, I contributed to a series of four symposia, convened by the Prince AlWaleed bin Talal bin Centre for Islamic Studies and supported by the Department for Communities and Local Goverment, which brought together a diverse range of contributors from within the British Muslim communities, to debate one of the key questions identified in […]
Akeela Ahmed MBE 