Fuad first had a magazine called ‘The Anvil’, in Nairobi. This was during the time when the Kenyan government had outlawed communism. (For those born after 1990, the hammer is one of the symbols of communism, along with the sickle – the anvil is a play on the whole hammer thing).
When he saw the light, he founded a magazine called ‘The Minaret’ which continued for many years as the official publication of the Mulsim students association of Nairobi University.
Fuad Nahdi, founding editor and present publisher of Q-News, has an interesting history of giving strange names to his publications.
For example, Q-News started out as MuslimWise, then morphed into the Muslim Update, then Q-News. What does the Q stand for? Is it Queer? Qu’ran? Quell? Quillam? There is a Q-News article about it, we’ll try and dig it out one of these days.
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Masud Ahmed Khan // August 2, 2007 at 6:56 pm
Left wing, right wing, left leg, right leg, left breast, right breast, it’s all the same when Fuad visits Nando’s just pass the peri-peri sauce!
Fareena // August 6, 2007 at 10:04 am
Here’s the story about the Q – http://www.q-news.com/Q.htm