Resources on Muslims for the Entertainment Industry
Fashion designer Nateka Pitter has founded Toronto’s International Muslim Fashion and Design Festival whose goal is to empower women through modest fashion. A look at the festival and the designer - … [Read more...]
Indira Kaljo is a Muslim professional basketball player who wears the hijab, and has started an international movement through the hashtag #fibaALLOWhijab with the goal of getting the International … [Read more...]
Move over the Bechdel Test, enter The Riz Test. Named after activist, musician and actor Riz Ahmed, the Riz Test is designed to measure Muslim representation in film and television using a "simple … [Read more...]
In 2014, Nzinga Knight was the first contestant to wear a hijab in the fashion contest show “Project Runway,” and this year, the Brooklyn-based fashion designer is busy with a successful fashion line … [Read more...]
Years ago photographer Langston Hues (AKA Muhammad Langston), 31, ditched the idea of going to medical school to focus on photography which now seems like the right choice as he is getting acclaim for … [Read more...]
In this super-enlightening webinar, Huffington Post talks to four young Muslim women about everything from personal interpretations of the Quran to face piercings to judging within the faith. These … [Read more...]
Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad is a senior data scientist at Groupon and teaches computer science at the University of Washington. In this op-ed, he makes the point that western readers often over look the … [Read more...]
A look at the online dating world geared to the Muslim community, running the gamut from observant Muslim women in hijabs to those that look straight outta da club. … [Read more...]
The Syrian war has gone on for five years now, and if you’re a 20-something, that’s a quarter of your life. PRI interviews young Syrian refugees who are currently living in Lebanon, stunned that this … [Read more...]
Playwright Sarah Badiyah Sakaan says Muslim YouTube beauty vloggers inspired her new play The Art of Hijab, Kohl Black, and the Right Way to Pray which is about the juxtaposition of online beauty … [Read more...]
