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.
Maimona Afzal Berta teaches 8th grade at Fischer Middle School in San Jose, California, and has reported 15 anti-Muslim incidents which she experienced as a teacher at the school. On September 11th, … [Read more...]
Nearly 90% of Indonesia’s 260 million people identify as Muslim. The country also has some of the greatest expanses of rainforests, wetlands and mangroves — carbon-rich environments that are quickly … [Read more...]
Last Friday, Egypt was hit with devastation as the al Rawdah Sufi mosque in Bir al-Abed was attacked by extremists who killed 305 worshipers (27 children were among the dead). The attack began with a … [Read more...]
As a child, Emtithal Mahmoud fled war in the Darfur region of Sudan. She says growing up as a Muslim woman and an immigrant in Philadelphia, she soon discovered a love for poetry. This enabled her to … [Read more...]
Every fall, the quaint seaside town of Essaouira, Morocco reclaims its lost Jewish community by staging a lively festival of Andalusian music designed to bring Jews and Muslims together for a weekend … [Read more...]
While in art school in London, Mahtab Hussain, a British artist of Pakistani heritage, had become frustrated with the “simplistic narratives” which portrayed Muslims as either terrorists or refugees, … [Read more...]
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) Ithaca College … [Read more...]
Though Belgrade is overwhelmingly Orthodox Christian, there are still approximately 20,000 Muslims residing in the Serbian capital and they only have one mosque, which dates back to 1575, for the … [Read more...]
America to Zanzibar: Muslim Cultures Near and Far is a crowd-pleasing exhibit now running at the Children’s Museum of Manhattan. More than 350,000 people have visited the exhibit so far and it’s so … [Read more...]
Since 2000, Al-Shifa clinic has served the mostly Latino residents of Muscoy, a small town in San Bernardino, California. The clinic has an open-door policy regardless of race, religion or … [Read more...]
