Resources on Muslims for the Entertainment Industry
Sadia Azmat, 29, says her job “is to entertain” and if she ends up opening people's minds... “that’s brilliant.” Ms. Azmat is a British stand-up comedian of Pakistani descent who performs most nights … [Read more...]
The Washington Post reports: Last week Muslim religious leaders across the nation took dramatic measures to cancel weekend gatherings including Friday prayers which are mandatory for Muslim men. … [Read more...]
Out of fear for their safety, Syrian rebels and activists have developed different names and even identities since the civil war began – and many are gladly leaving their old personas behind. … [Read more...]
One city in Syria has been abandoned due to the horrors of the war. Abandoned by people, that is. A look at one man who returns each day and takes care of the orphaned cats. … [Read more...]
It was reported this week that the death toll in Syria, due to the civil war, has risen to 210,060 – nearly half of that are civilians – and this figure is said to probably be even higher. … [Read more...]
Sahar Mahayni was forced to leave Syria in 2012 and now lives with her son and husband in Irvine, California. While she stresses how fortunate she feels, she writes “like many other Syrian families, … [Read more...]
Shahid Shafi is a surgeon, a city councilman in Southlake, Tex., and vice chair of the Tarrant County Republican Party. Recently, a small faction of Tarrant County Republicans tried to remove Mr. … [Read more...]
Faten Hamama sadly passed away last week - she was known as the “First Lady of Arab Cinema.” A look at her life and what it meant to be an Egyptian actress in the sixties and seventies (and was also … [Read more...]
In this op-ed for Forward, Ilana Schachter, who is the campus rabbi at University of Pennsylvania, writes about attending the Women’s March in D.C. with a group of Muslim and Jewish students, … [Read more...]
The American Jewish communities have experienced a lot of sorrow of late – first the February 2017 vandalism of a cemetery in St. Louis where 100 headstones were overturned and then last October in … [Read more...]
