Resources on Muslims for the Entertainment Industry
Lana Aldos, an 18-year-old sophomore at Loyola University Chicago, is majoring in neuroscience and anthropology. She is also Syrian-Muslim refugee, having moved to Chicago in the eighth grade, after … [Read more...]
In Lebanon's Shatila refugee camp, Syrian and Palestinian children are learning to express their feelings in group therapy. Counselors say that after years of witnessing the brutalities of war and … [Read more...]
According to the Human Rights Watch, more than 400 people tragically lost their lives last week in Ghouta, Syria. Al Jazeera reports that ongoing attacks by Syrian government forces and their allies … [Read more...]
Firas Fayyad is a Syrian-born documentary filmmaker whose latest film "Last Men in Aleppo" won the 2017 Sundance Grand Jury Prize and is a hopeful for this year's Oscars race for feature documentary. … [Read more...]
Despite the ongoing Syrian war, restaurateurs Saameh and his brother Ahmad Kajaan, both have managed to keep their restaurant Atayeb open in Aleppo. The brothers opened their first restaurant in a … [Read more...]
Journalist Gayle Tzemach Lemmon recently visited the Syrian town of Tabqa (outside of Raqqa) and found that access to education, specifically for girls, is under great threat. Whereas books and … [Read more...]
13-year-old Amineh Abou Kerech is the proud winner of the Betjeman poetry prize for her poem “Lament for Syria” which was written half in English, half in Arabic. “I take words from anywhere,” Amineh … [Read more...]
Hailed as this era's Anne Frank, eight-year-old Bana al-Abed has documented her family's struggle to survive in war-torn Aleppo via social media. With the help of her mother, Fatemah, Bana's tweets … [Read more...]
Despite the ongoing civil war which has resulted in more than half the population displaced, a Syrian performance troupe named Saraqeb Youth Group continues to thrive in a small Northwestern town in … [Read more...]
Baggio Husidic is a Bosnian-American soccer star who currently plays for the LA Galaxy. Baggio, 29, a seven-year MLS veteran has appeared in 143 games with two teams, and won an MLS Cup with the … [Read more...]
