Isa Noorudeen · ISArts
Creative ideas.
Thoughtfully realised.
I bring creative and technical thinking together to give ideas a useful, expressive form. Through community initiatives, screen production, photography and digital tools, I connect the purpose of a project with the work needed to bring it to life.
01 · IsQuiz creator · Games-night project
Bringing people together, then building the tool the experience needed. Kismet Games Night connects a social evening at the café with IsQuiz, the app I created to support it.
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02 · Tijani audio & community project
The Tijani Spotify channel gives an audio expression to a practice rooted in remembrance and community. Its focus is listening and access to recordings, rather than the interactive daily-practice role of the separate Tijani App.
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03 · Founder · Community platform · Website
DOT—Developing Our Tradition—is a platform for Muslim artists and creatives to connect, share work and exchange ideas. It brings the community itself, its creative activity and its digital presence into one project.
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04 · Community involvement · Website
LMA brings together Latin heritage and Muslim identity through community work. My involvement includes its website, which supports the organisation’s presence and gives people a route to its work.
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05 · Producer & presenter · British Muslim TV
ArtiZen explored art, creativity and spirituality through conversations with Muslim creatives. I worked as both producer and presenter, alongside co-presenter Sakinah Le Noir.
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06 · Production manager · Short film
The Light Within is a cinematic poem directed by Adam Shamash and narrated by Sukina Pilgrim. I worked as production manager, supporting the practical delivery of a film with a strong artistic and spiritual intention.
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07 · Actor · White Sufi
Die Before You Die adds acting to my work across production, presenting and visual storytelling. I appeared in the feature film as White Sufi, bringing an on-screen contribution to a wider collaborative production.
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08 · Producer & production · British Muslim TV
ChaiTime was a Muslim women-led chat show on British Muslim TV. I worked as producer and in production, contributing behind the scenes to a programme centred on women’s voices and conversation.
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09 · Producer & production · British Muslim TV
Wisdom & Tea brought scholars into conversation on British Muslim TV. I worked as producer and in production on a programme built around discussion and the exchange of ideas.
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10 · Production · British Muslim TV
Being Bilal followed Bilal Hassam’s life and community activity in an unscripted British Muslim television series. I contributed to its production, working behind the scenes on a format rooted in real people and situations.
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11 · Production · Filming & feed monitoring
AsoOmii Jay led this London public-response experiment, with Amaney Ehtash participating in a staged encounter about religious discrimination. My contribution was behind the camera, supporting the recording of the encounter.
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12 · Production · Filming & edit delivery
Islamophobia 2 is an English-language educational series addressing misconceptions about Islam. My involvement was in the background, making sure the filming and editing were delivered.
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13 · Business creator · Startup development · E-commerce
From idea to e-commerce: Dorado Pockets is a business I developed to connect a practical product with a clear offer and an online shop. It brings entrepreneurial, creative and technical thinking together in one venture.
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14 · Toolkit & website creator
FastUTM responds to a practical marketing-workflow need: making campaign-tracking links easier to create, understand and manage. The toolkit and its website are two parts of the same response.
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15 · App creator · Digital companion
The Tijani App is a focused digital companion for daily religious practice. It brings relevant resources together in a browser-based space shaped around the practice it supports.
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16 · Website developer · Second photographer
A continuing collaboration with Summer, connecting a photography business’s online presence with work on location. I developed the WithLoveSummer website and work alongside Summer as a second photographer.
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17 · Website creator · Artist’s digital presence
The Ahmad Ikhlas website brings an artist’s identity and work into a digital presence. It belongs here as a creative website project, with the artist and audience providing the starting point.
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18 · Video collaboration with Salah Mazhary
A video collaboration with Salah Mazhary of Adventures in Fashionstan, centred on his interpretation of Lezginka dance. It brings performance, dress and cultural curiosity together as an artistic project.
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19 · Conceptual photography · Creative collaboration
A conceptual photographic project exploring isolation and identity, inspired by Gabriel García Márquez’s novel. The work draws on literary and cultural references to develop a visual world of its own.
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20 · Digital artist · Exhibition
Artistic Jihad brought traditional visual influences into contemporary digital expression. My exhibited works explored the relationship between inherited imagery and a personal artistic language.
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21 · Artistic photography · Collaboration
A photographic tribute to Azaan John Kaleem, made in collaboration with Yusuf J. Noorudeen. The work uses the relationship between father and son to reflect on guardianship, influence and the human cost of knife violence.
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