Resources on Muslims for the Entertainment Industry
British-Pakistani actor Riz Ahmed just made history at the 69th Emmy Awards. The British Muslim became the first male actor of Asian descent to take home a highly coveted Emmy Award for acting. Ahmed … [Read more...]
Despite the ongoing civil war which has resulted in more than half the population displaced, a Syrian performance troupe named Saraqeb Youth Group continues to thrive in a small Northwestern town in … [Read more...]
Hamad Sinno is lead singer of the popular Lebanese alternative rock band Mashrou' Leila. This summer the group toured the U.S. to much acclaim, thanks to no small measure to their huge hit “Roman” … [Read more...]
Funny-woman Maysoon Zayid has the receipts. She co-created the Arab-American Comedy Festival with fellow comic Dean Obeidallah and her Ted Talk I got 99 problems … palsy is just one has been viewed … [Read more...]
22-year-old Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan won second place at this year’s Roundhouse poetry slam for her powerful poem entitled This Is Not A Humanising Poem. In the piece, she declares that Muslims … [Read more...]
Hollywood activist, Jack Shaheen, sadly passed away earlier this month. Mr. Shaheen, a Lebanese-American, was one of the most vocal critics on the way Arabs and Middle Easterners were depicted on … [Read more...]
Some may think that the three members of the Indonesian band VoB ("Voice of Baceprot" or "Noisy Voice") do not look like your typical heavy metal group. Formed in 2014, the all female band of … [Read more...]
Actress Amanda Stephen plays Alison Abdullah, a black Muslim woman who represents one of several marginalized groups featured on the hit Netflix television show “Orange Is The New Black.” Here’s … [Read more...]
“While I Was Waiting” receives its North American premiere at Lincoln Center Festival this week though it almost didn’t happen. Playwright Mohammad Al Attar and director Omar Abusaada both hail from … [Read more...]
Fatima Farheen Mirza is a 26-year-old graduate from the prestigious Iowa Writers’ Workshop and her first book, A Place For Us, has been chosen by actress Sarah Jessica Parker as the first title for … [Read more...]
