Azhar Mahmood & Sharmeen Ziauddin Iftar: I try and avoid fried foods generally, especially whilst I’m training. For Iftar I always open my fast with dates and water, along with some channa chaat (chickpeas) and fruit chaat (fruit salad). I’ll have dinner which is usually grilled fish or chicken with lots of vegetables and a…
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Ramdhan Routine: Norman Musa
Read moreNorman Musa & Sharmeen Ziauddin Iftar: Like many Muslims I normally start with dates as they have high levels of natural sugar and are full of vitamins. I tend to follow up with rice which is a staple food for many Malaysian’s and of course this has to be accompanied by a delicious Malay curry…
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Ramadhan Routine: Myriam Francois-Cerrah
Read moreMyriam Francois-Cerrah & Sharmeen Ziauddin Iftar: I’ve spent a lot of time in the Arab world, my husband is Turkish so we eat a mixture of food. I always open my fast with a date – Palestinian sourced of course, and water. I like to eat things that aren’t too heavy as I get super…
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My Foodie Life: Anj Baig
Read moreAliya Zaidi Fitness fanatic, Anj Baig is an award-winning personal trainer and owner of Pure Muscles Gym. Earlier this year, Anj, along with his younger brother, Moses, starred in Gurinder Chadha’s Desi Rascals, a new reality show, chronicling the lives of modern British Asians across West London. I caught up with Anj to chat about…
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It's a date
Read moreKomal Lalwani With thousands of different varieties of dates available, it can be a little overwhelming to know where to start! Here’s a little crash course on everything you need to know about dates… Dates are one of the oldest cultivated fruits, grown primarily in the Middle East and Northern Africa. They thrive in the…
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For the Love of Food: Dates
Read moreMaryam Abbas Not many people know that the majority of the world’s Medjool dates originate from California – even though they export only 15% of the worlds dates. But the origins of many Medjool date plantations stem from the export of the seeds from the East to the West. The Spaniards exported dates for the…
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Issue 3 Is coming soon! Enter our Instagram Competition
Read moreEnter our Instagram competition! Halal Gems have teamed up with Meat & Shake, London to give away a £60 voucher. To enter the competition all you have to do is: 1) Repost this image of our Issue 3 magazine cover on your own Instagram page. 2) Tag @halalgems and #HalalGemsGiveaway in the caption. The Instagram…
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My Foodie Life: Siddiqa Juma
Read moreTo read more articles like this, download Halal Gems Magazine here. Siddiqa Juma tells Zéna Butt the story of her culinary life and explains how her chopping board inspired one of her most successful works of art. I was born on a small island called Pemba which is just on the outskirts of Zanzibar, East Africa.…
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Fairtrade Magazine Article Comments
Read moreFind Aliya Zaidi’s piece on fair trade in our magazine here. Fairtrade responded to our article with the following comments: Costs to Farmers Although there is a cost associated with Fairtrade certification, this is necessary with any credible certification programme because of the cost of employing professional, trained people to visit producers to check that…
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