Amid the backdrop of a global pandemic and a rise in domestic violence, comes Honour, ITV’s two-part drama focusing on the real-life honour killing of Banaz Mahmod.

Mahmod, for those who haven’t yet heard the name, was a British Iraqi-Kurdish woman who was forced to marry a man at 17. When she divorced him and began a new relationship, her family arranged for her to be murdered.

This is an important story. However, I have long been frustrated over the portrayal of Muslim women on TV, as they are usually always presented as oppressed or submissive, with no room for agency or autonomy. The only storylines, too, seem to revolve around honour killings or terrorism.

But when I learned that Honour doesn’t actually centre on Mahmod, I was intrigued.

“ITV’s Honour misses a huge opportunity to tell Banaz Mahmod’s story”