Name: Hijabi (2024): Film Screening and Panel Discussion
Start: 2024-11-16T19:00:00+00:00
End: 2024-11-16T21:30:00+00:00
Location: Rethink Rebuild Society (Syrian Community Centre)

Hijabi (2024): Film Screening and Panel Discussion

Hijabi tells the compelling stories of five British women who choose to wear the hijab and their experiences of Islamophobia in the UK.
About this Event

Rethink Rebuild Society invites you to a screening of the film:

Hijabi (2024)

Directed by: Samir Mehanovic

After the screening, Samir will be joined by a panel of amazing Muslim women to discuss the themes of the film (see below).

Runtime: 70 minutes

Certificate: PG12

Language: English

At: Rethink Rebuild Society, First Floor, Discovery House, Crossley Rd, Levenshulme, Manchester SK4 5BH

On: Saturday 16 November 2024 at 7pm.

Please ring 07730194083 if you cannot find the venue!

Please arrive on time as the screening will start at 7.15pm promptly.

The film

The documentary, directed and produced by BAFTA and IDFA award-winning filmmaker Samir Mehanovic, tells the compelling stories of five British women who choose to wear the hijab and their experiences of Islamophobia in the UK.

The film features Zamzam Ibrahim, climate justice activist; Adama Juldeh Munu, award-winning journalist, producer and essayist; Asmaa Shuweikh, columnist, activist and public speaker; Amna Abdullatif, award-winning national anti-racism campaigner; and lasnim Nazeer, award-winning journalist and the first hijab-wearing TV reporter in Scotland.

Their testimonies are unflinching accounts of the constant fight for dignity and respect in Britain, and together their engaging stories offer insight and hope in the mission to challenge racism and hate crime.

Samir Mehanovic

Director/Producer, BAFTA and IDFA award winning filmmaker who came to live in the UK as an immigrant in 1995 after Srebrenica genocide committed against Bosnian Muslims.

Mehanovic to ‘the National’: “In 30 years’ time, I want people to watch the film, and say, ‘Look how bad humanity was then and how good we are today,'"

Watch the full interview here:

Visibly Muslim: Documenting the resilience of the UK's hijab wearers | The National

Meet the Panel

Amna Abdullatif

Amna is an award-winning anti-racism campaigner the co-director of The Three Hijabis, She was elected as the first Arab, visibly Muslim woman to Manchester City council in 2019 and sits as an Independent.

Tracey Pook

Tracey has been a Muslim for 21 years and currently works as a Community Engagement Officer at Didsbury Mosque.

Fatima Mahmood

A digital project manager and a community activist who has a particular interest in raising awareness about the challenges Muslim women face in the UK.

Dr Yasmine Nahlawi (Chair)

Yasmin is a legal consultant and researcher with expertise in international law and the Syrian conflict. She is Chairperson of the Board of Trustees at Rethink Rebuild Society.