Resources - websites - online initiatives and media
- www.e-arabic.com
The e-Arabic Learning Portal (eALP) reaches out to the general public interested in Arabic. There are podcasts, digital flashcards, a huge wealth of streamed Arabic media, a chat forum, a feedback forum, top tips on courses and on residence in the Arab World, language exchange partner opportunities, etc. - www.euro-islam.info
Euro-Islam.info is an active network of researchers and scholars who conduct comparative research on Islam and Muslims in the West and disseminate key information to politicians, media, and the public. Sponsored by GSRL Paris/CNRS France and Harvard University, the Euro-Islam research network consists of over forty researchers. - http://islamineurope.blogspot.com
The Islam in Europe Blog provides continuous news coverage on Muslims and Islam in Europe, serving as a resource of English translations of articles and research reports from the U.S., France, Denmark, Norway, Italy, Germany, Finland, Iceland, and more. - www.islamispeace.org.uk
A campaign and website which invites visitors to challenge their own ideas of Islam and Muslims. The Islam is Peace Campaign aims to address the negative perceptions and stereotypes of Islam and British Muslims. They intend to do this through media engagement to reach out to the wider community across the UK. - www.islamicamagazine.com
The Islamic Magazine web site, like the print edition, is a key forum for analysis, dialogue and reflection on religious, interfaith, political, and social issues. Key essays and surveys on Muslims in Europe are published regularly. - www.hefce.ac.uk/aboutus/sis/islamic
The main idea of HEFCE's Islamic Studies web site is to create a virtual UK centre to coordinate between both secular and religious Islamic Studies experts within the UK, and also to create a UK platform for international engagement with those interested in Islamic Studies. - www.muslimheritage.org
MuslimHeritage.com is an online education community that brings together Muslims and Non-Muslims seeking to advance civilisation through the study of Muslim heritage. - www.balkanmuslims.com
Based on the British Academy funded research ‘Contemporary Islam in the Balkans’ and realised by Kerem Öktem as a principal researcher in 2009 and 2010, the 'Muslims in the Balkans' project seeks to give an up-to date snapshot of structures and trends within the diverse Muslim communities of Southeast Europe and their relations with the Muslim world as well as with Europe. - www.muxlim.com
Muxlim.com is a social media website, created to connect the world's Muslim communities to each other, and to the wider world, through shared online experiences. - www.universes-in-universe.org/eng/nafas
This art magazine is an online magazine that presents articles, information, and visual material on current art whose essential point of origin or reference is in the Islamic world. Of course, this also includes works by artists who live elsewhere, but who see their cultural home in countries and regions shaped by Islam. So Nafas is not about "Islamic" art. - www.salaamshalom.org.uk
Radio Salaam Shalom is a unique online broadcast project jointly run by a combined team of Muslim and Jewish volunteers in the city of Bristol, UK. - www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/features/sacred/homepage.html
The online gallery related to the Sacred Exhibition on display at the British Library in 2007 has a number of features about shared history and belief amongst religions. - www.youngmuslimcitizens.org.uk
'Young, Muslim, Citizen- Identity, Empowerment and Change' is an online resource pack for parents, teachers and youth workers who work professionally with young people of Muslim background. It complements both mosque-based education and citizenship education programmes in mainstream schools. This resource is provided by the UK Race & Europe Network within the Runnymede Trust.
