Resources on Muslims for the Entertainment Industry
Leila Fadel from NPR reports: Over the weekend, Muslim mental health professionals quickly pulled together a webinar to share advice on how to deal with trauma after the New Zealand terror attacks … [Read more...]
In this op-ed for the Washington Post, Harvard graduate student Zainab Merchant writes about her recent travel experiences, recounting that for the last few years, she has been stopped and … [Read more...]
When 9-11 happened, Tom Watkins was Michigan’s state superintendent of schools and on that day, he was on a government retreat with colleague Victor Ghalib Begg, a practicing Muslim. As Watkins writes … [Read more...]
Faiz Shakir has been tapped to serve as Bernie Sander's campaign manager for his second run at the White House, making him the first Muslim American to steer a major presidential campaign. To catch … [Read more...]
Ilhan Abdullahi Omar is the first female Muslim and Somali-American legislator. Currently, she is serving as the U.S. Representative for Minnesota's 5th congressional district based in Minneapolis … [Read more...]
A new billboard in Dallas features a woman wearing a hijab, along with a 1-800 number and the words: respect, honor and strength. The Islamic Circle has partnered with a Chicago-area based group … [Read more...]
Another glass ceiling has been thankfully shattered for Muslim women in American politics. Sadaf Jaffer was recently sworn in as mayor of Montgomery Township, New Jersey becoming, as Religion News … [Read more...]
Religion News Service reports: More than 130 American Muslim leaders and scholars have signed an open letter condemning the Chinese government’s continued persecution and detention of the mostly … [Read more...]
Dominique Ray, 42, was pronounced dead at 10:12 p.m. last night due to a lethal injection at the state prison in Atmore, Alabama. Ray was a Muslim inmate who had filed a legal challenge because he … [Read more...]
As Huffington Post accounts: Two years ago this week, Trump signed Executive Order 13769, which barred citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries, including Yemen, from entering the U.S. (It has … [Read more...]
