Resources on Muslims for the Entertainment Industry
In a besieged Damascus suburb, a secret library lies beneath a bombed-out building where volunteers have collected more than 14,000 books on every subject under the sun. "We saw that it was vital to … [Read more...]
Students at the Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School in Washington DC can choose the language they want to study including Hebrew, French, Spanish and… Arabic. For the past three years, Hani Abo Awad, … [Read more...]
This month popular nail-polish brand Orly will be launching a variety of "breathable" nail polishes that are considered halal, permissible for observant Muslims. A bit of background. Prior to the … [Read more...]
As head of the Mamma Haidara Library in Timbuktu, Abdel Kader Haidara became greatly concerned about his library in 2013 when militant extremists backed by al-Qaida ransacked a local government … [Read more...]
The architectural world is mourning the passing in March of Iraqi-born Zaha Hadid, a true pioneer in her field. In 2004, she was the first Muslim (and woman) to receive architecture’s highest honor, … [Read more...]
"Today I had one of the most interesting and most memorable flights of my life. I made a friend called Beverly who made a mistake and acknowledged it,” Jiva Akbor, a young Muslim woman from the UK, … [Read more...]
Abdullah Saeed is a Muslim-American correspondent on a new show running this month on Viceland called “VICE Does America.” According to Vice, the mission of the show is to “find out what the hell is … [Read more...]
Twice a month, journalist Anna Gyulai Gaal hosts a dinner party at her Berlin apartment but this is no normal feast -- the cooks are Syrian refugees, women who have just arrived to Berlin after making … [Read more...]
At the start of the Syrian civil war, artist and scholar Jumana Jaber fled Syria, along with her family, and eventually immigrated to the United States through the help of the Institute of … [Read more...]
Photographer Rania Matar new series “L’Enfant-Femme” contrasts the rite-of-passage between girls in America (specifically Boston, where the artist lives) and the Middle East (mainly Lebanon, where the … [Read more...]
