Resources on Muslims for the Entertainment Industry
The MOST Story Bank is a live archive of stories on the most current events, people and cultural perspectives of Muslims in America and around the world. With writers in mind, MOST carefully selects story-driven news from the most reputable published sources.
In this op ed for the Washington Post, scholars Kathleen Crowther and Peter Barker write about the "profound effect" of the #MuslimBan on the sciences: "As of April, the number of Muslim refugees … [Read more...]
Muzmatch is a global matchmaking app whose goal is to find marriage partners for its Muslim users. Operating in nearly every country, the app is most popular in the U.S., UK, and Canada, and is said … [Read more...]
A Muslim student in Canada has discovered a new way to extract diamonds that might otherwise be destroyed by current harvesting techniques. Hamdi Ali, 17, spent last summer at the University of … [Read more...]
Recently Dubai Islamic Economy Development Centre (DIEDC) published the results of the State of the Global Islamic Economy Report 2018/19, titled ‘An Inclusive Ethical Economy' and found that "Muslims … [Read more...]
A few years ago, Fatimah Hussein noticed an absence of Muslim girls participating in sports in her hometown of Minneapolis and realized this was due to a conflict between rigorous activity and the … [Read more...]
In Spring of 2016, Farah Alhajeh, 24, was interviewing for a job as an interpreter at Semantix (a language service company in Sweden) when the person conducting the interview introduced her to a … [Read more...]
Entrepreneur Hadi Shakuur decided to start a Muslim-friendly version of Airbnb after some friends told him they were having trouble with their accommodation bookings, which were often denied or … [Read more...]
According to Saadia Zahidi's new book Fifty Million Rising, at least a third of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) trained talent across the Middle East are female. In Iran, … [Read more...]
In this interview with the Columbia Journalism Review, journalist Hannah Allam talks about her beat covering American Muslims for BuzzFeed News and her personal mission to offer a “richer” depiction … [Read more...]
Islamic finance refers to the means by which corporations in the Muslim world, including banks and other lending institutions, raise capital in accordance with Sharia or Islamic law. It also refers to … [Read more...]
