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October 2017
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A mosque for the future: The story of Punchbowl Mosque
October 2017
What happens when the Vice President of Islamic Mission commissions a Greek Orthodox Architect to build a Brutalist...
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Coffee & Conversation: The Sheikh and the Hindu student
October 2017
Inter-faith conversations
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Coffee & Conversation: The Rabbi and the Muslim High School teacher
October 2017
Inter-faith conversations
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Coffee & Conversation: The Swami and the Christian theology student
October 2017
Inter-faith conversations
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Building Up and Giving Back
August 2017
Youth Off The Streets partnered with the Australian Multicultural Foundation to coordinate a Youth Leadership Forum in...
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Who are the Ahmadi?
August 2017
Imam Mohammed Atae Hadi, who represents the Ahmadiyya community in many areas of Sydney, spoke to The Point Magazine...
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We Are All Sydney
August 2017
18 women from almost as many communities graduated in June from the first-ever “We Are All Sydney” community...
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Award winning journalist, presenter and author Mehdi Hasan on defeating extremism
July 2017
Visiting Australia earlier this month, award-winning British journalist, author, and presenter of Al Jazeera’s UpFront...
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One remarkable Iraqi woman’s determination to rebuild her country
June 2017
Life is hard for women living in ISIS-controlled areas of Mosul, Iraq. Dr Farah Al Siraj, a member of Iraq’s Federal...
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'Militant mothers' at the frontline of conflict resolution in Indonesia
June 2017
Mothers from multi-faith backgrounds, including Muslim, Christian and Hindu, in Indonesia are leading the country’s...
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From Mosul to Western Sydney
March 2017
He was one of the thousands of Christian Iraqis who fled the city of Mosul in 2014 after the terrorist organisation ISIS...
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Sparks Fly at Anglican Church
January 2017
Reverend Tiffany Sparks is used to breaking down barriers. As a pregnant teenage mother, Sparks studied her Bachelor in...
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Community profile: who are the Uighurs?
January 2017
A small diasporic community living in Australia and in other parts of the world, the Uighurs are Western China’s ethnic...
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Going home for the first time: life in Iraq today
October 2016
For many people around the world, Iraq is synonymous with terrorism, suicide bombings and death. For me, it’s home....
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Turkey’s failed coup: the view from Australia
August 2016
The failed coup attempt in Turkey last month has exposed highly complex divisions within Turkish society. The Point...
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Conversation with Clive Lawton OBE
May 2016
Clive Lawton OBE is a British educator, inter-faith advocate, and author of My Belief: I am A Jew and The Jewish People:...
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‘The Militant Spring’
May 2016
Are Muslim leaders speaking out enough against violent extremism? This ignorant and insulting question seems to surface...
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Why I write about violent extremism
May 2016
Widyan Fares has reported extensively for The Point Magazine on how the issue of violent extremism is affecting local...
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Baha’i students finding ways to thrive
March 2016
A growing number of Baha’i students from Iran are pursuing university degrees, despite being systematically denied...
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What the ISIS leaks really tell us
March 2016
ISIS is to terror what the Mafia is to crime – organised. By employing a corporate strategy to their method of terror,...
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Halal Tinder
February 2016
With the rise of Tinder and Tinder-esque apps, it was only a matter of time before Muslims jumped on the app bandwagon...
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ISIL social media strategy
January 2016
The terrorist organisation ISIL owns thousands of Facebook and Twitter accounts that are manned around the clock,...
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Dan the man: making social cohesion sexy
January 2016
That untameable beast, the internet, has put in its own nomination for Australian of the Year —Dan, an Optus...
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Taking the Piss out of Politics
December 2015
Dubbed the ‘Jon Stewart of the Middle East’, Bassem Youssef’s satirical take on regional politics has won him a...
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Opera House lights up for Diwali
November 2015
The white sails of the Sydney Opera House lit up in gold this month to mark Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights.
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ISIS severs ancestral ties
November 2015
Australian communities with ancestral ties to Northern Iraq are struggling to come to terms with the suffering of family...
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