Gamescon News: PS3

I know this blog is supposed to be about writing, but I’m allowed to talk about what inspires me right? At the moment, its videogames that seem to be inspiring me, so shut up and let me talk. Okay, I’ve spent some time to read up on the latest announcement that have come out of […]

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Reading and Writing Habits

This past weekend, I finished my editing mark up of Draft 1 of Adventures of Some Kid, and thus began working on Draft 2. I’ve had a bit of a break from writing these past few weeks, burying instead my head in books. Even writers need a break now and then even if writing is […]

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The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain: by Maria Rosa Menocal

Once again the lines are blurring between my different identities, and by that I mean in every sense. Today I was approached by a former mentor and a former employer to begin a task that requires all my past and current experiences to merge together. The task is to tutor a group of Pakistani scholars […]

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Islamic Art – Windows Live

Writing is really busy at the moment but I’ve found time to start a new hobby (in addition to reading books and playing videogames). Originally, the idea was to find my wife something to help distract her from the tedium of housework and child-rearing. See expressed an interest in art so I went out an […]

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Poetry

  Poetry Workshop To mark the annual occasion of the Islamic Night of Ascension, I led a creative writing workshop (as part of my day job) with a group of Year 6 students (erm, aged 10?) from two Burnley primary schools, St Peter’s and St Johns. The group was a mixture of boys and girls […]

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