Voice of Unity (VOU) - Muslim Youth Magazine

In November 2010 David Cameron launched a new government Transparency website as part of his Big Society plans for Britain.
Visitors to www.number10.gov.uk/transparency will be welcomed by links to: “Business plans”, “Who does what in Whitehall” and “Who ministers are meeting.” The …

10 April 2010; 11am – 5pm; Imperial College London.

The image of Islam in the popular media is just as pertinent a topic now as it was after 11 September 2001. Almost a decade on, and with the tragic conflation of Islam …

Ali is a car mechanic in Lebanon, Shamsaddin raises cattle on his farm in Azerbaijan and Judith owns a catering business in Peru where she cooks for weddings.
All three are examples of entrepreneurs in a developing country. Kiva.org is a website …

With thousands of freshers starting their first year of university this month Hassan Joudi asks several students starting their second year “What advice do you wish you received 12 months ago?”
Shortly after sitting my last exam and finally completing my …

First our oil, now our sun? Hassan Joudi looks at an ambitious new project proposed by a consortium of European companies to harness solar power across North Africa and export it to Europe.
The sun is the source of all energy — …

Last summer something strange happened in England. As the Euro 2008 football tournament got under way, red and white coloured flags were proudly displayed in windows, pubs and cars across the country. But it wasn’t the red on white cross of …

Hassan Joudi asks why the human mind is frequently not happy with what it has …

DOCUMENTARY
BROADCAST ON BBC FOUR DURING JAN 2009
RUNNING TIME: 3 X 60 MIN EPISODES
Professor Jim Al-Khalili – a half-Iraqi half-English nuclear physicist – has delivered yet another stunningly produced science documentary, this time exploring the relationship between science and the …

As one of the longest serving charities in Iraq, Medical Aid for Iraqi Children (MAIC) has delivered medicine and medical equipment to hospitals throughout the country since 1995.  But having been through strict UN sanctions, the 2003 Gulf War and the resulting …

In 2004 the US suffered from $525m worth of robberies in street crime. However in the same year an estimated $600bn was stolen through employee theft and fraud in the workplace in white-collar crime. Noting the ‘bn’ on that second figure, the …