Writer Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib pens an op-ed for MTV about pop-star Zayn Malik, who famously left One Direction last year and is about to launch his first solo album called “Mind of Mine.”
“I root for Zayn to be himself,” Hanif says in his piece. “Because I know that he is still a Muslim, standing in the face of all of these things the world does not associate with Muslims. This, too, is powerful. It isn’t an erasing or muting of his identity. It’s a stretching of what that identity can represent in the minds of people like him.”
