The Muslim Lifestyle Expo
The Muslim Lifestyle Expo 2016 offers you a variety of themes to enjoy. From live cooking and celebrity chefs, keeping the kids happy with plenty of activities whilst you listen to inspirational business leaders in our seminar sessions. It’s all there for a fun-packed and informative day at the leading Muslim lifestyle show. Budding entrepreneurs can look forward to building their network, and fashionistas can check out the 2017 catwalk trends. What’s not to like!
Let the Muslim Lifestyle Expo make your day.
Look Who's Appearing at MLE 2016!
We’ve got two days packed full of entertainment! Writer, director and star of hit YouTube series CornerShop Show is your host for MLE Live! Top British Muslim comedians Aatif Nawaz and Guz ‘Guzzy Bear’ Khan will be providing the laughs. Facebook sensation ‘Curry on Halima’ Halima Saleem and Great British Bake Off runner up Ali Imdad will be hosting cooking and baking demonstrations at the MLE Live! Cookery Theatre. We have top nasheed artist Khaled Siddiq providing beautiful, soulful and spiritually uplifting songs and to round it off top Muslim Modest Fashion designers will be showcasing their latest designs on the MLE Live! Catwalk.
We’ve got it all! See the full schedule below.
MLE Live! Host
Saturday & Sunday

Islah Abdur-Rahman
‘Mistah Islah’
Comedian
Saturday

Aatif Nawaz
Cook
Saturday

Halima Saleem
‘Curry on Halima’
Nasheed Artist
Saturday & Sunday

Khaled Siddiq
Comedian
Sunday

Guz Khan
‘Guzzy Bear’
Baker
Sunday

Ali Imdad
BBC Great British Bake Off
MLE Connect Seminar Speakers
Saturday
Jenny Norton-Wright
Curator
Manchester Art Gallery
Saturday
Abdul Alim
Tech Geek & Entrepreneur
Sunday
Abdulhamid Evans
Halal Focus
Sunday
Barnado’s
Sunday
Shahbaz Mirza
UK Brand Ambassador LaunchGood
Sunday
Moe Nawaz
Mentor to FTSE100 Leaders
Sunday
Abdul Alim
Tech Geek & Entrepreneur
MLE Connect Seminars: Panel Discussion (Saturday 29th only)
Empowering Muslim businesswomen and the rise of the ‘Mumpreneur’
Over the years Muslim women have shown a keen entrepreneurial spirit whether by giving up successful careers to start business or stay-at-home mums looking after their families. There are many such women still toying with the idea of starting their own businesses with an entrepreneurial spirit waiting to emerge. In recent times we have have seen some very successful Muslim businesswomen come to the fore and establish businesses that have gone on to become national and global brands providing products and services right across the business spectrum. Fashion, cosmetics, travel, publishing, finance, art and handicraft, technology, food are just some of the areas in which Muslim women have excelled. MLE Connect Seminars gathers together a diverse panel of Muslim businesswomen to discuss their experiences and give you insight, information and inspiration to help you start that business that you’ve always been dreaming of!
Saba Zaman
Panel Moderator
Asassistant Producer at CTVC Ltd
Sabiha Ansari
Co-Founder and VP, American MuslimConsumer Consortium, Inc.
Karima Bihaki
Founder Islamic Market Consultancy & BookHalalHomes.com
Zukreat Nazar
Leading celebrity makeup artist
Founder & CEO of ‘Artist of Makeup’ Cosmetics
Zanib Mian
Founder & Director of Sweet Apple Publishers
Nazia Nasreen
Founder and CEO of Ibraheem Toy House
MLE 2016 SCHEDULES
MLE Schedule Saturday 29th
MLE Zones
At the Musllim Lifestyle Expo, we’ve brought together another jam-packed range of activities and entertainment that will keep your day full to the max. Sit in and listen to top speakers in our Seminars line up. Make time to see the best in global modest fashion on our catwalk. Enjoy the best of halal food in our restaurant with sumptuous and delicious food from our official catering partner MyLahore. Take part in the cricket challenge with Lancashire Country Cricket Club. See Curry on Halima Saleem rustle up a delightful meal in our LIVE cookery theatre. Let the kids run wild in our dedicated kids zone. Then sit back and see the finest nasheed artists and top comedians on our MLE LIVE stage. There is something for everyone. Just make sure you get there early!
Food Quarter
MLE brings you the tastiest of halal food! Our official caterer, MyLahore will be providing you with a special menu of delicious food whilst you shop and enjoy the activities and entertainment at MLE2016! Don’t forget their dessert parlour and mocktails bar that will be sure to keep you fuelled up. You’ll need it!
Kidz Zone
Got kids? Don’t worry, MLE has plenty for them to do whilst they are at the event! We have go karts, slides, bouncy castles, face painting, toy stall, popcorn, candy floss and much more.
Go Karts, Slide, Bouncy Castles, Face Painting, Striker Bell, Toy Stall, Popcorn, Slushies, Candy Floss - lots there to keep the littl’uns occupied!
The only noise your kids will make are ones of happiness whilst they are having MLE fun!
Health Zone
MLE in association of the Muslim Doctors Association want you to be in tip-top condition and are offering free health consultation, education and lifestyle advice. In the UK the highest recorded rates of heart attacks are in people born in the India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. Men and women from these countries are, on average, one and a half times more likely to die from a heart attack than other people in Britain. (British Heart Foundation Factfile)
The Muslim Doctors Association aim to create awareness of these issues in a faith and culturally sensitive manner and to encourage individuals to make positive lifestyle choices.
Fashion Show
Modest fashion has been causing a bit of a stir in the international media. MLE, once again, brings you the latest in modest fashion from some of the world’s leading modest fashion houses. We have a live catwalk exhibiting the latest designs!
Once again, MLE will bring you the best in modest fashion with the biggest starts from stand up comedy. Designers and labels from across the world will once again attend The Muslim Lifestyle Expo to show you the latest trends and styles. Elegance, modernity and classic modest fashion will grace our catwalk from designers here in the UK, to the Middle East to Singapore. Witness a fashion show extravaganza full of colour, opulence, dignity and luxury fabrics. All in the hands of our Creative Director Zaf Shabbir.
You should grab your tickets. Like now!
Islamic Art Gallery
Our Islamic arts gallery will be curated by Islamic Imprints. They will showcase the best of contemporary art from artists across Europe. We will have a collection that will inspire and excite you in perfect surroundings right in the heart of our Expo.
We are also proud to be working with Manchester Art Galleries and Halima Cassell who will be providing you with a drop-in workshop to make stunning geometric ceramics using clay. Come along and take part at the sessions over the weekend. (tbc)
Live Cookery Theatre
The Muslim Lifestyle Expo and our partner AHDB present a series of cooking and butchery demonstrations over the weekend. Halima Saleem from ‘Curry on Halima’ and baker Ali Imdad as seen on the BBC’s Great British Bake Off will cook live in front of you at our custom built cookery theatre.
The MLE Connect Seminars
Always dreaming about starting your own business? We have some of the leading business and thought leaders from the Muslim community delivering seminars, hints and tips about business and lifestyle at the MLE Seminars innovative “Air Tent”!
MLE 2016 will be hosting free to attend seminars for visitors over the two days. Our seminar line up features experts from the lifestyle sectors and across the business community who will share relevant, valuable and bite-sized knowledge.
Our Seminars will be housed inside a stunning Air Dome construction which will be sure to capture everyone’s attention.
Note: FREE ENTRY for all MLE ticket holders to all Seminars. Spaces allocated on a first come first served basis.
"I haven't seen anything quite like this before ...
all of it is a total buzz!"
Mamoon Yusuf, Quran Coach.