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 the powerful Al Jazeera documentary Twice a Victim, filmmaker Paula Palacios interviews Muslims who have lost loved ones in extremist attacks only to face fierce discrimination in the wake of the … [Read more...]
Contemporary Muslim Fashions at San Francisco's de Young museum is said to be the first major exhibit exploring Islamic culture within a fashion context. The show runs through Jan. 6 and, according to … [Read more...]
Gottlieb Wilhelm Leitner came to the UK in the 1870s to study at King’s College London and upon graduation was appointed to Professor of Arabic and Muslim Law. In 1889, he went on on to build the Shah … [Read more...]
Billed as "Canada's first professional theater company dedicated to celebrating Muslim stories," the Silk Road Theatre Company was born out of a desire to "change the narrative that we always hear … [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...]
The Denver Post reports: "A Fort Morgan meatpacking plant and the union that represents its employees will pay settlements to Muslim workers whose civil rights were violated when they were denied … [Read more...]
Hardy King is mayor of a small South Carolina town called Irmo, population 11,851. Last June, the Daily Beast reported Mayor King had posted anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant memes on his Facebook page. … [Read more...]
