Resources on Muslims for the Entertainment Industry
Mariam Khan, editor of It’s Not About The Burqa: Muslim Women on Faith, Feminism, Sexuality and Race, brings us a #MustRead listicle of the 5 most inspiring Muslim women you need to know. … [Read more...]
A very personal look at the women of Kobani who now live as refugees in Turkey as their husbands stay and fight ISIS. … [Read more...]
Founder of The Women's Mosque of America, M. Hasna Maznavi, says that the Los Angeles mosque has “erroneously been framed as a ‘liberation’ from Muslim men” and thereby, has made a list of “nine … [Read more...]
The first-ever Muslim Women’s Day kicked off today with the trending hashtag #MuslimWomensDay. Here are a few of the top tweets: Amani Al-Khatahtbeh, MuslimGirl founder and spear-header of the day: … [Read more...]
Since the presidential election, a Canadian Muslim women’s shelter named Nisa Homes has become a haven for U.S. border crossers seeking asylum. In the last six months, dozens of women and children … [Read more...]
After harassment and death threats, Khalida Popal was forced to flee her home country of Afghanistan in 2011. She left much behind -- her home and family, but one thing she refuse to give up was her … [Read more...]
The Brookings U.S. Islamic World Forum is to be held in early June and one of the topics to be discussed are women’s rights in “the unstable Middle East.” As scholar Jomana Qaddour says in the piece, … [Read more...]
Qal’bu Maryam Women’s Mosque is set to open this Friday in Berkeley, California – making it the second female-led mosque in the country (Women’s Mosque of America in Los Angeles opened two years ago). … [Read more...]
According to the New York Times: Saudi Arabia announced on Tuesday that it would allow women to drive, ending a longstanding policy that has become a global symbol of the repression of women in the … [Read more...]
Elizabeth Bucar is an associate professor of philosophy and religion at Northeastern University, and is also the author of Pious Fashion: How Muslim Women Dress. In this op-ed for the Atlantic, she … [Read more...]
