It was a pleasure to meet so many of you during freshers week and to have you back at our numerous events throughout the year.
We kicked off the year with Ashura Awareness Week where we ran a clothes drive for refugees in France and Greece in partnership with Yorkshire Aid, handed out water in the name of Imam Hussain ﷺ at the Union and signed people up for the Imam Hussein Blood Donation Campaign.
Our first 'Give it a Go' of the year was our Quiz and Pizza Night on the 11th October. It was a lovely evening and we were so pleased to see so many of you that we met during freshers week again!
We have had some fascinating discussion circles these past few months on a wide range of topics such as 'feminism in Islam', 'infallibility' and 'sectarianism' to name just a few. We have been delighted with the turnouts at these discussion circles and have loved hearing everyone share their opinions in a respectful and tolerant manner.
Interfaith week is always an amazing week and this year was no exception! The LUU faith societies came together for a week of dialogue, understanding and fun! We kicked off the week with speed-faithing (always a favourite) which was as big as it has ever been at Leeds with over fifty people taking part! Other events in the week included the interfaith quiz, an open-mic night, prayer observation and a Q&A panel among many others!
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Our end of term dinner was a cracking night full of great food and fantastic company at Haftsin Restaurant! Check out the video that our very own Alireza made of the event below:
We were very excited to hold our first ABSoc-ISoc collaboration of the year at the end of November with the screening of the much awaited documentary - 'Why Can't I be a Sushi?'. Many thanks to the director Hoda El Soudani for coming all the way to Leeds to introduce the documentary and take questions from the audience, and to the Muslim Student Council for their help in organising the event.
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Leeds ABSoc also celebrated the election of two of our members to the Executive Committee of the Muslim Student Council! Roxanne Tajbakhsh has been elected as vice-chair and Ayad Marhoon is now Northern representative. Congratulations to all those elected, inshaAllah many great things to come!
That's all from us for now! We just want to say a massive thank you to everyone who has helped make this first term a great one! We have some exciting events coming up so keep checking here and on our Facebook page for updates. Have a lovely holiday and see you next term!