Resources on Muslims for the Entertainment Industry
Sannah Hussain is not your average amateur boxer. The 25-year-old Scottish Muslim lives with two debilitating health conditions -- Albinism, which affects hair and skin pigment as well as visual … [Read more...]
Shahd Batal is a 22 year old Sudanese-American woman making a splash on YouTube with her makeup and skincare tutorials. “I’ve always loved makeup, but I got really into it post-hijab," says Ms. … [Read more...]
Zahra Butt is the first Muslim woman to have been certified as an ABA boxing coach (Amateur Boxing Association) in the UK. Ms. Butt runs Box Smart where she coaches women who have suffered from … [Read more...]
Leila Ali Elmi has made history as the first East African, Muslim woman and Somali to be voted into the Riksdag (as the Swedish parliament is referred). Face2Face Africa reports that Ms. Elmi ran … [Read more...]
Though there have been previous instances of Muslim women taking part in the qualifying rounds of the Miss England pageant, this year 20-year old-law student Sara Iftekhar became the first hijabi … [Read more...]
In light of the Driver Ban lifting in Saudi Arabia and other Women's Rights gains across the Middle East and North Africa, scholars Benjamin G. Bishin and Feryal M. Cherif ask some pertinent … [Read more...]
Muslim and Christian women have come together for interfaith walks in Glasgow's Queens Park to discuss their lives and faith. Reverend Susan Brown's organized these walks to encourage diverse people … [Read more...]
Mona Haydar's family had some advice for her: “If you want to be taken seriously as an academic, you can’t be rapping.” Haydar -- a 30-year-old Syrian-American activist, poet and mother of two from … [Read more...]
Sylvia Chan-Malik is a scholar of American and gender studies at Rutgers University. She was raised in Northern California by Chinese immigrants who were culturally Buddhist but not religious. In … [Read more...]
We feature a lot of stories on Storybank about Muslim women who both choose to wear the hijab and who choose not to wear the hijab. But here is an account of a woman who has chosen to remove her hijab … [Read more...]
