Resources on Muslims for the Entertainment Industry
Nearly a hundred Syrian refugees cross into Iraqi Kurdistan’s Peshkhabour border every day. In this video clip from the New York Times, we see a brother and sister reuniting at the border. The sister … [Read more...]
Four new “elegant dining establishments” have recently opened in… Damascus. And though ISIS is reportedly just six miles from Syria’s capital, the upper classes have decided to go on with their lives … [Read more...]
In Syria, Yusra Mardini, 18, and her sister Sarah were one of the country’s brightest swimming stars until the war changed everything. Last summer, they were forced to flee from their home in … [Read more...]
Hundreds of thousands of people have signed online petitions to give this year’s Nobel Peace Prize to… islanders and fishermen. Yes, you read correctly as these Greek locals are seen as heroes to the … [Read more...]
In this op-ed for the Washington Post, a Syrian refugee woman named Linda J. writes about how she and her family fled Syria and eventually emigrated to America. She talks about the intense vetting she … [Read more...]
Founded by an Armenian family in 1911, the famous Baron Hotel in Aleppo, Syria was once the destination, according to Reuters, of “adventurers, writers, kings, aviators, Bedouin chiefs and presidents” … [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) Muslim Women … [Read more...]
On Friday, Trump signed an executive order which suspends all refugee entries for 120 days, indefinitely bars Syrian refugees, and blocks the entry of citizens from Iraq, Iran, Syria, Yemen, Sudan, … [Read more...]
Mahmoud Raslan is the photographer/videographer who shot the gut-wrenching image of five year old Omran Daqneesh who, following an airstrike on his home in Aleppo, Syria, was captured sitting alone, … [Read more...]
Last February, during a border crossing in Syria, a four-year old got separated from his mother and became a symbol for the devastation and loss of the war. … [Read more...]
