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The City Circle organises weekly gatherings which act as forums for intellectual discourse, spiritual nourishment, community activity and social networking. It also holds fundraising dinners and conferences.

The diverse range of subjects covered in the weekly events and the wide spectrum of Muslim and non-Muslim opinion within it has established a respectable platform for honest critical debate which has allowed the City Circle to move sections of the community towards an increasingly proud, confident and positive definition of their identity as young British Muslim citizens in the UK.

Weekly events are held every Friday evening from 6:45pm, except for public or Muslim holidays, or during the month of Ramadan.


	Subject:	Why are our kids failing?
	Speaker:	Tahir Alam and Abdullah Trevarthen
	Venue:	Abrar House, 45 Crawford Place, London W1H 4LP
	Date:	Friday 3th July 2009, 6.45pm - 8.30pm
	According to the Office of National Statistics, in 2004 a third of Muslims of working age in Great Britain had no qualifications � the highest proportion for any religious group. They were also the least likely to hold university degrees or equivalent qualifications (12 per cent). Muslim pupils, especially those of Pakistani and Bangladeshi descent are amongst the lowest achievers, have below-average reading ability and are over-represented in lower sets in schools. The City Circle is pleased to be joined by panelists � Tahir Alam and Abdullah Traverthen, who will explore what factors may be contributing to this crisis and ways ahead. Tahir Alam is an advisor for The Muslim Council of Britain (MCB). He has participated in many policy consultation forums and debates on educational issues relating to education of British Muslim children and wider educational issues. He is the lead author of the MCB school guidance document on �Meeting the Needs of Muslim Pupils in State Schools�. He is the executive committee member of the Association of Muslim Schools (AMS) and regularly advises on Muslim education and facilitates training workshops on 'Islam and Muslim Cultural Awareness' and 'Meeting the Needs of Muslim Pupils in Schools'. He presents the 'Education Talk' programme on a community radio station (Unity Radio) in Birmingham and has contributed to many radio and television programmes on the theme of Muslim Education in particular. He is currently a trustee of Birmingham Central Mosque and the Al-Hijrah Trust. Abdullah Trevarthen was born in New York in 1954. He spent formative years in Puerto Rico, Greece. Germany and Morroco. In the spirit of the 70's he set out for the East in a spiritual quest which eventually deposited him in North Africa. In his early twenties, he was engaged in organic farming and goat husbandry for a proverbial seven years in the Netherlands where he entered Islam in 1976 through the auspices of Moroccan migrant workers. Abduallah Trevathan was formerly Headmaster of Islamia School, the first state funded, voluntary muslim school in the UK and was also the retreat leader on BBC2�s �The Retreat�. He currently lectures in education at Roehampton University. All Welcome. Free Entrance. For more information, please contact Sid Djerfi on sid_djerfi@yahoo.co.uk or 07786 212 486 click here for more details...

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Our previous speakers have included:

Prof Akbar Ahmed, Hady Amr, Prof Timothy-Garton Ash, Shaykh Abdallah bin Bayyah, Moazzam Begg, Revd Prof Richard Bonney, Jeremy Bowen, Martin Bright, Madeleine Bunting, Shaykh Dr Mustafa Ceric, Shami Chakrabarti, Rt. Hon. Nick Clegg MP, William Dalrymple, Merryl Wyn Davies, Dr Faisal Devji, Prof Gai Eaton, Dr Abdelwahab El-Affendi, Prof John L Esposito, Baroness Kishwer Falkner, Prof Hasan Hanafi, Dr Wilfried Hofmann, Simon Hughes MP, Ed Husain, Anwar Ibrahim, Tony Juniper, Bruce Kent, George Galloway MP, Lord Peter Goldsmith QC, Yusuf Islam, Fazlun Khalid, Sarfraz Manzoor, Prof Yahya Michot, George Monbiot, Geoff Mulgan, Craig Murray, Shaykh Prof Salman Nadwi, Maajid Nawaz, Rachel North, Prof Tariq Ramadan, Geoffrey Robertson QC, Chief Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks, Sir Iqbal Sacranie, Afif Safieh, Prof Ziauddin Sardar, Shaykh Zaid Shakir, David Shayler, Dr Ghayasuddin Siddiqui, Dr Richard Stone, Rt. Hon. Jack Straw MP, Chief Mufti of Kosovo Naim Tarnava, Azhar Usman, Terry Waite, Dr Timothy Winter, Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg, Shaykh Nizam Yaqoobi and Shaykh Hamza Yusuf.

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