by DearCommunity | Sep 13, 2024 | Events
Noomá is a friendly space for people to discuss faith, life, and everything. The conversation is friendly and illuminating, and there’s great food, too. But beyond food and conversation, there’s sometimes poetry, spoken word, music, storytelling, etc. Noomá’s a great...
by DearCommunity | Sep 12, 2024 | Thoughts
I have just read in the Newham Recorder the death of Sela Beya, 38, who was stabbed recently on Romford Road in Newham. Stabbing incidents have now attained epidemic proportions in our community. Recently, we read of the stabbing to death of Imran Maroof in Plashet...
by DearCommunity | Sep 11, 2024 | Thoughts
I am a self-confessed people watcher. I’ve always wondered where people are going, what people are thinking, what work they do; you get the drift. So there was this one time when I sat on the stairs leading to the Westfield Shopping Centre, turned round, faced the...
by DearCommunity | Sep 11, 2024 | Culture, Events, People of Newham
Our Shia neighbours certainly put on a show of pomp and pageantry on July 27, 2024, as they observed Murram Juloos, the annual ritual commemorating the death of Husayn ibn Ali, grandson of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and the third Shia imam. It was certainly a family...
by DearCommunity | Sep 10, 2024 | Wellness
Loneliness is increasingly becoming part of life in these modern times. The loneliness epidemic affects people from all walks of life, but it’s especially hard on the elderly. I was chatting with one of my older neighbours, Reginald (not his real name), a while back...
