Resources on Muslims for the Entertainment Industry
The Sultan and the Saint was recently featured in Holy Land Review. The docudrama, which aired on PBS and was produced by Unity Productions Foundation, has been back in the news as this year marks … [Read more...]
Mother and daughter duo Rowah and Amani are joining The Amazing Race Australia with the goal to shatter stereotypes about Muslims and, uh, freaking win! Rowah, 42, is a single mum from Sydney and the … [Read more...]
Known primarily for her work in film, video and photography, Shirin Neshat, 62, is an Iranian visual artist who is currently the subject of a one-woman show at the Broad museum in Los Angeles entitled … [Read more...]
A new report of how media covers minorities in America has found that "stories about Muslims are more negative than stories about any other group," states Erik Bleich, director of the Media Portrayals … [Read more...]
The Christian Science Monitor takes a look at American Muslim female comedians explaining that "generations of comics have used stand-up to educate the broader society about their culture or ethnic … [Read more...]
Sisters-in-laws Fatima, Azeema, and Kiran Maniya went through four elimination rounds to finally win the first season of ABC's reality cooking competition Family Food Fight. The family took home a … [Read more...]
Aysha Khan, a Muslim Miss England contestant, has made it through to the final stage of the contest and many say she has successfully taken on stereotypes. For instance, she chose to participate in … [Read more...]
In Spider-Man: Far From Home, British actress and model Zoha Rahman plays Spider-Man’s Muslim classmate, making it the first hijab wearing character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe! When Ms. … [Read more...]
June 20th was World Refugee Day and Glamour magazine asked high fashion model Halima Aden to write about her experiences growing up in the Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya, and here are some snippets from … [Read more...]
Last week rapper and actor Riz Ahmed (“The OA,” “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” and “The Night Of") was onstage at the CAA Amplify conference in Ojai calling for the audience there -- Hollywood … [Read more...]
