by Qaisra Shahraz | Feb 14, 2016 | Events & News, News, Previous events
Activities I was delighted to celebrate the Chinese new year activities with my wonderful friend, Jenny Wang, Director of the Chinese center in Manchester who invited me. As always she hosted a brilliant event. It was great to visit my sons’ former school...
by Qaisra Shahraz | Feb 10, 2016 | Blog, Events & News, Germany 2016, Previous events, Tours
Date: Tuesday, 16th February Time: 9:55 till 11:25 Venue: Genoveva-Gymnasium in Köln-Mülheim I am delighted to have been invited to the Genoveva-Gymnasium as part of my Educational tour to Germany. I will be sharing my experience as a...
by Qaisra Shahraz | Feb 10, 2016 | Blog, Events & News, Germany 2016, Previous events, Tours
Date: Thursday, 18th February Time: 13:00 Venue: Norbert-Gymnasium Knechtsteden, Knechtsteden 17, 41540 Dormagen I am delighted to have been invited to the Norbert Gymnasium Knechtsteden as part of my Educational tour to...
by Qaisra Shahraz | Feb 10, 2016 | Events & News, Previous events
It was a pleasure and privilege to join the Buddhist community in their celebration of the Chinese new year, the Year of the Monkey at the Fo Guang Shan Temple. I was invited by the delightful venerable Miao Dao from Taiwan, who heads the temple. A good friend, it was...
by Qaisra Shahraz | Feb 6, 2016 | Events & News, News, News, Previous events
Really looking forward to taking part again in the German Education Book Fair Didacta in Cologne. I will be discusssing my work as a writer, my short stories “A Pair of Jeans” being studied in German Gymnasium schools. I will also be giving an...
by Qaisra Shahraz | Jan 13, 2016 | Events & News, News, News, Previous events
REMEMBERING SREBRENICA – Honouring the 8372 Victims of the Genocide I am delighted to go on a special visit with a group of women to Bosnia. Women of all faiths and backgrounds. Date: 16th to 20th of January Visiting the towns and cities of...
by Qaisra Shahraz | Dec 7, 2015 | #WeStandTogether, Blog, Books, Events & News, Revolt, The Holy Woman, Typhoon
It was a pleasure visiting Withington Girls’ School in Manchester for our season of twinning event. Over 100 Muslim and Jewish girls with their teachers and sixth form prefects attended a session led by myself and Jonny Wineberg. This was one of the five schools...
by Qaisra Shahraz | Dec 7, 2015 | Events & News
Promoting Peace and Spreading Hummus across Manchester! After months of planning on 3rd of December we were delighted to host our Manchester University Students & Community event for the season of twinning at St Peter Chaplaincy. Students and staff from the...
by Qaisra Shahraz | Nov 21, 2015 | #WeStandTogether, Events & News, Manchester
I helped to organise and took part in our first UK interfaith ‘Twinning’ event in schools in Manchester. Twinning Muslim and Jewish pupils in Manchester Grammar School. This event is part of the Twinning season initiative, spearheaded from New York,...
by Qaisra Shahraz | Oct 30, 2015 | Blog, Events & News, Manila 2015, Previous events
VISIT TO THE UNIVERSTY CREATIVE WRITING CENTRE AND THE ARCHIVES LIBRARY Building It was a privilege to visit to the University of Santo Tomas on 21st October. My wonderful host Dr. Joyce Arriola took me on a tour of the campus. I was delighted to visit the wonderful...
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