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About Nushin Arbabzadah

Nushin Arbabzadah grew up in Afghanistan during the Soviet occupation. She studied at Hamburg and Cambridge universities, and has edited an anthology of contemporary journalistic writing from the Islamic world, No Ordinary Life: Being Young in the Worlds of Islam. She has also written From Outside in: Refugees and British Society: An Anthology of Writings by Refugees on Britain and Britishness.

Articles by Nushin Arbabzadah

Thursday 23rd December

Discovering Christmas in Kabul

Nushin Arbabzadah, 23 December 2004
A childhood promise of Christmas magic in Afghanistan is unexpectedly fulfilled years later.
Monday 13th December

Multiculturalism in medieval Islam

Nushin Arbabzadah, 13 December 2004
Islam, so often seen as the west’s “other” and depicted as a monocultural and intolerant religion, itself has centuries of experience of hosting and regulating a diverse cultural mosaic. Nushin Arbabzadah gazes through history’s mirror.
Sunday 19th May

An Afghan perspective on the British monarchy

Nushin Arbabzadah, 19 May 2002
After childhood images of Iran and Afghanistan, the transcendental ordinariness of the British Queen gave Nushin Arbabzadeh a fresh perspective on monarchy.
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