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Read All NewsAziz Scholar Samie Kayani designs installation in Istanbul Airport
Aziz Scholar, Samie Kayani, has designed an installation at Istanbul airport inspired by Islamic Heritage and Science. The installation celebrates the work of Fuat Sezgin, a renowned scholar in the field of Islamic Studies. The Turkish government has declared 2019 as the year of Fuat Sezgin. The exhibition was curated... Read More
Aziz Alumni Abbas Zahedi chosen as the ninth South London Gallery Postgraduate Artist in Residence
Aziz Alumni Abbas Zahedi has been selected as the ninth South London Gallery Postgraduate artist in residence. Zahedi creates social projects with collaborators and audiences. Recently he has worked with migrant and marginalised communities in the UK to explore the concept of neo-diaspora, and the ways in which personal and... Read More
Book Review: Interfaith Perspectives by Aziz Scholar Farhana Mayer
Cohn-Sherbok, Dan, Chryssides, George, & Hasan, Usama, People of the Book: An Interfaith Dialogue About How Jews, Christians and Muslims Understand Their Sacred Scriptures, London | Philadelphia, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2019. ISBN 978–1–78592–104–9. Interfaith dialogue is a platform for the promotion of mutual respect, understanding, and friendship among people who... Read More
Aziz Scholar Faiza Amin appointed trustee of Groundwork UK
Faiza Amin is an Aziz Scholar and one of Groundwork UK’s first Federation Board Trustees to be appointed through a young trustee recruitment process in September 2019. Below are her thoughts, taken from her blog post ‘Reflecting the communities that we represent’ on the Groundwork UK website. After volunteering to advocate... Read More
Scholars' Profiles
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Since joining the Aziz Foundation Scholars in 2018, I have completed a Masters in Creative Writing, Fiction Pathway... Read More
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The Aziz Foundation scholarship has benefited me in my role as a Community Imam and Liaison Officer at... Read More
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I have now completed my Masters, and actually whilst studying I was applying many aspects of my studies... Read More
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Career wise, in May, I started a new corporate policy job in Hackney Council in the Chief Executive’s... Read More
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