TALK: Muslim Actually with Tawseef Khan

Muslim Actually: How We Get Islam Wrong and Why It Matters with Tawseef Khan 
At 7pm on Thursday 3rd July
In person tickets from £18. View online (Zoom) tickets £10. Click this link to purchase.


Join Tawseef Khan for a discussion of his first non-fiction book Muslim, Actually, in which he looks at the Islamophobia persistent in some segments of Western society, from its ancient origins and development, to how it operates and manifests today. Talking to Andrea Russell, Warden at Gladstone’s Library, Tawseef will look to dismantle the essential stereotypes that Islamophobia is constructed around. How have Tawseef’s reflections on how the discourse on Islamophobia (and his attitudes towards it) changed since writing and publishing the book? What does he feel are the future prospects of the West embracing its Muslim communities unconditionally? And finally, where does the conversation go from here? 

Tawseef Khan is a qualified immigration solicitor and holds a doctoral degree from the University of Liverpool, where he examined the fairness of the British asylum system. He is also a graduate of the creative writing programme at the University of East Anglia, where he received the Seth Donaldson Memorial Bursary. His fiction has appeared in Lighthouse and Test Signal: a Northern anthology; his non-fiction in the New York Times, The Face and Hyphen. His debut non-fiction book Muslim, Actually was published by Atlantic in 2021. He lives in Manchester.


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