MOST Bi-Weekly Recap
We here at Muslims on Screen and Television (MOST) have crafted an 'in case you missed it' #ICYMI list of this past week's most timely and relevant stories from across the web: 1) ‘Black Panther’ … [Read more...]
Resources on Muslims for the Entertainment Industry
We here at Muslims on Screen and Television (MOST) have crafted an 'in case you missed it' #ICYMI list of this past week's most timely and relevant stories from across the web: 1) ‘Black Panther’ … [Read more...]
After 15 years of entertaining Japanese American senior citizens with singing American classic songs and standards, the Los Angeles theatre trope The Grateful Crane Ensemble realized they should … [Read more...]
The Culture Trip brings to you a listicle of what you need to know when traveling to a Muslim majority country. "For those who make the journey there is the realization that the cultures and history … [Read more...]
Faith —
June 24th marked the 800th anniversary of a very important encounter -- that between Francis of Assisi and Egypt’s Sultan Malik al-Kamil during the Fifth Crusade. In this op-ed, scholar Paul Moses … [Read more...]
Dubbed the Syrian Malala, 17-year-old Muzoon Almellehan and her family fled the Syrian war four years ago only to bounce around between refugee camps. When she left her hometown, Muzoon was told to … [Read more...]
According to UNICEF, nearly 800 million people alive today were married as children. Even though child marriage is against the law in most countries and considered a human rights violation by the … [Read more...]
A look at two poets Bejan Matur (who is Kurdish) and Maram al-Masri (who is Syrian) who are part of a new generation of female poets writing about the affects of the ongoing civil war in Syria. … [Read more...]
National —
Pillars Fund first started in Chicago seven years ago, when a handful of powerful American Muslims pooled their resources together and began to help fund nonprofit Muslim groups in America. BuzzFeed … [Read more...]
In this piece for Elle, activist and journalist Amani Al-Khatahtbeh (creator of the influential blog MuslimGirl) interviewed four working actresses (of Middle East and Muslim backgrounds) on their … [Read more...]
World —
Khaled Khalifa is a Syrian novelist, screenwriter and poet. His 2012 novel, In Praise of Hatred, was a finalist for the International prize for Arabic fiction (and was also banned by the Syrian … [Read more...]