Resources on Muslims for the Entertainment Industry
In 2002, educator Afeefa Syeed was looking for a new home for her start-up school for Muslim children. She had started Al Fatih academy with another teacher, Pervin Divleli, in Herndon, Virginia. Both … [Read more...]
The new year kicks off with Shalom Habibi - a new comedy tour showcasing Muslim, Arab and Jewish comedians. The show will be presented at cultural centers across America. The founders of the troop … [Read more...]
According to a recent PEW report, about 8% of all Muslim Americans adults are Latino, the population increasing by about a third from 2011. Latino Muslim communities have found a home in mostly urban … [Read more...]
In the new book Beyond the Mosque: Diverse Spaces of Muslim Worship, author Rizwan Mawani chronicles the diverse sects of Islam along with their places of worship -- from the mosque and husayniya to … [Read more...]
The need to produce U.S. trained Muslim religious leaders is increasing, according to AP. This is due in large measure to the Travel Ban as imams and scholars, who once came from the Middle East and … [Read more...]
In this op-ed for the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Karen E. H. Skinazi (author of Women of Valor and professor at the University of Bristol) writes about moving to Coventry, England with her husband and … [Read more...]
Last week, religious leaders from both the Muslim and Catholic faiths spoke at a conference entitled "The Sultan and the Saint: The Spiritual Journey of Transformative Encounter." The event took … [Read more...]
The Christian Science Monitor reports that "after decades of economic migration and geopolitical tensions that reduced North African Jewish communities from hundreds of thousands to a few thousand … [Read more...]
Earlier this month, Muslim and Evangelical Christian students convened at a conference at Wheaton College to explore what they could do to reform relations, a situation the event's organizers, … [Read more...]
In this op-ed for Religion News Service, Imam Omar Suleiman, founder and president of the Yaqeen Institute for Islamic Research, pens a personal thank you to the Sikh community who he says "has borne … [Read more...]
