Myriam François & Rizwana Hamid: Creating New Narratives: Research, lobbying & the media.

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Muslim Institute Winter Gathering 28-30 November 2025. Session: Creating New Narratives: Research, lobbying and the legacy & new media. Dr Myriam François, journalist, filmmaker & podcaster. Rizwana Hamid, Director, Centre for Media Monitoring. Chair: Shenaz Bunglawala. Every year, over three days and two nights, the Muslim Institute retreats to the auspicious surroundings of Sarum College situated in the grounds of Salisbury Cathedral, joined by a distinguished diverse panel of speakers for a programme of events. Fellows gather to debate and discuss the essential and pressing issues of our times, focusing on an annual theme, in a relaxed and convivial atmosphere. Each year we pick a different theme to discuss through a series of lectures and panel sessions. The theme of the 2025 Winter Gathering was: ‘By Any Means Necessary’: Muslims, Politics and Power in the 21st Century’. On the 60th anniversary of the death of Malcolm X, WG25 asks how best to build and organise our communities? How to uphold justice and safeguard spaces for dissent? How to challenge anti-Muslim bigotry in society, politics and media? How to hold our own leaders to account? How to ally with others facing bigotry and fighting for justice? How to engage with those in power? How to generate our own power? WG25 brings together leading change makers and thinkers to explore how to transform the British Muslim landscape ‘by any means necessary’. Video: Robert Hoang. Still: Rehan Jamil. www.musliminstitute.org