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A Cape Flats writer has taken his story from the dusty streets on the outskirts of the city to Exclusive Books' bestsellers list!

Yusuf Daniels, the author of Living Coloured book, a compilation of short stories about life on the Cape Flats as a child in the 1970s.

We were lekker, honoured and inspired to chat to him in Cape Town a couple of months ago... enjoy!

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Adila Vahed is an Entrepreneur, Wife, Sister, Mother, Coach, Marketer, Owner, Author etc. etc. Her parents have always inspired her to live her best life - after spending 9 years in the hotel industry, Adivah in Africa PTY Ltd was established in 2011.

As if that was not enough, in 2014, she published her first book “Get out of Your Mind!” 7 Steps to Creating Long Term Success & Life-long Fulfillment was published in Toronto, Canada by New York Times Bestselling Author, Raymond Aaron.

After presenting the radio show for 2 years on Travelling South Africa, in December 2015, her charming Chocolate & Cheesecake Bar coffee shop situated in Ridge Road was opened.

Then in 2016, the Adivah Business Network was launched providing sales, marketing & brand management services to start-up entrepreneurs where she creates brands and implement strategies to grow their business.

In 2018, she then launched the Adivah Women of Year Awards, to celebrate, acknowledge and reward women in business that have gone the extra mile despite their daily challenges.

We were honoured and inspired to chat to a dear friend of ours in Durban a couple of days ago... enjoy!

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We attended the launch of Qurtuba Online Academy. Qurtuba Online Academy is a digital Islamic school based in South Africa. Their dual-curriculum [Cambridge International Assessment & Islamic Studies] ensures students a broad academic future, while simultaneously providing access to quality Islamic studies subjects, including Arabic.

Their classes provide all the necessary resources for students to thrive in a self-directed learning environment. Using the flipped learning methodology, students are provided with vibrant, engaging presentations, pre-recorded videos and other resources to engage with subject matter before live lessons, in which the teacher facilitates completion of problem-solving activities. This way students are able to familiarise themselves with subject matter in a meaningful way, at their own pace, before applying it practically. Currently servicing Grade 7-9s.

We interviewed Moulana Aboo Baker Mahomed about this new online venture. Enjoy!

Nasheed Outro: "Mawlaya Sali by Inaam Mohammed ( Michigan-based artist)

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We were honoured to sit down with Jihan Kaisi, a Lebanese activist who visited Cape Town (via Africa Muslims Agency) a couple of months ago to raise awareness on the suffering of Syrian and Palestinian refugees in her country.

"There were 1.5million Syrian refugees in Lebanon living under dire circumstances. The influx of refugees due to the conflict include 35000 Lebanese returnees and more than 31000 Palestinian refugees from Syria. Kaisi said kids were most affected in the inhumane camps."

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One of the most interesting interviews. We were really blown away by Dr Razeen's passion for his work and the Quran.

Dr Razeen Gopal, a cardiac electrophysiologist at the Cape Town Atrial Fibrillation (AF) Centre located at Mediclinic Panorama, implanted the world’s smallest smart device to control heart beats and pumping action – a first in the emerging markets region.

Dr Gopal’s unit remains one of the leading centres for management of cardiac arrhythmias on the African continent and he feels that the addition of the new platform of devices is in keeping with the centre’s motto that “with innovation, comes cure”.

The Cape Town AF Centre, as a centre of academic excellence has taken a leading role in the dissipation of knowledge in the discipline of cardiac electrophysiology (both in cardiac ablation and device therapy). Dr Gopal proctors quite broadly, having regularly travelled to the Middle East, Indian Ocean Islands, Namibia and nationally. He runs an extremely popular pacemaker implantation course (Medtronic EBAC/EHRA accredited), which has been attended by hundreds of training cardiologists and qualified specialists from within South Africa and the African continent.

In addition, his avid passion for teaching the ECG has been popularised by the national ECG courses he hosts annually.

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We interviewed two young brothers from the Al Sharq Youth - South Africa Chapter/Hub, Abdallah Grifat and Bilal Bassiouni - Al Sharq Hub in South Africa encourages the creation of opportunities through facilitating events and programs to raise awareness and promote engagement on topics critical to the local public. The hub is also committed to convey lessons extracted from South Africa’s unique experience of social integration and participation, dialogue and democratization to Al Sharq’s international audience.

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We interview Homarya Shaik in Durban. Digital Accounts Manager, Graphic Designer. Owner of Food Pop Up, Nacho Problem ZA, Coney Creative & Custom Sentimental unique framed prints...

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Yusuf Omar is a multi-award winning journalist and co-founder of Hashtag Our Stories, a TEDx speaker, former CNN Senior Social Media Reporter on Snapchat and former Mobile Editor at the Hindustan Times in India where he empowered 750 journalists to tell stories with the phones. He has been a foreign correspondent with just his phone since 2010 and covered the Syrian civil war. At Hashtag Our Stories, he’s empowering mobile video storytelling communities around the world, creating shows in every language.

We interviewed him during his stay in Cape Town (South Africa).

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Nouman Ali Khan is an American Muslim speaker and Arabic instructor who founded the Bayyinah Institute for Arabic and Qur’anic Studies, after serving as an instructor of Arabic at Nassau Community College. He has been named one of the 500 most influential Muslims in the world by the Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre of Jordan.

We interviewed him during his stay in Cape Town (South Africa).

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Faghmeda Miller was the first Muslim woman in South Africa to publicly disclose her status as a person infected with HIV. Since making that decision soon after her husband died from the disease, she has become an HIV/AIDS activist, focusing specifically on the Muslim community. When she discovered in the mid-1990s that she too was infected, her initial reaction she said was one of shame. “The first thing that went through my mind was the shame I had brought on my family. I, therefore decided to keep this information to myself, after all it wouldn’t be long till I die.”

Faghmeda said she did not realize the possibility for people infected with HIV to lead full, productive lives, a message she now actively shares with others. Learning the facts about HIV and AIDS has been a transformative experience for Faghmeda who claims in her life, her attitude, and even her personality changed. In the process, she said she found the courage to battle the stigma attached to infection, even announcing her status on community radio. She also co-founded a non-profit organization called Positively Muslim.

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