Resources on Muslims for the Entertainment Industry
The MOST Story Bank is a live archive of stories on the most current events, people and cultural perspectives of Muslims in America and around the world. With writers in mind, MOST carefully selects story-driven news from the most reputable published sources.
The Statue of Liberty is a clear symbol for immigrants and the American spirit but a little known fact is that the statue was originally intended to represent a female Egyptian peasant as a Colossus … [Read more...]
Per Reuters report: Nearly 100 companies, including some of high-tech's biggest names, joined a legal brief opposing President Donald Trump's temporary travel ban, arguing that it would give … [Read more...]
According to U.S. Census Bureau data, Los Angeles is home to 160,800 immigrants from Iran, Iraq, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen, and thus, according to the L.A. Weekly, “has more residents who hail … [Read more...]
In Saudi Arabia, due to the conservative culture, women are not allowed to drive cars however they are being encouraged to work outside the home. In fact, the country just announced incentives to … [Read more...]
As a response to President Trump’s ban on immigration to the U.S. from seven mostly-Muslim countries, the Museum of Modern Art has rehung part of its permanent collection by artists from some of these … [Read more...]
On the night of Jan. 29, members of the Centre Culturel Islamique Québec gathered inside Quebec City’s largest mosque for the most important prayer of the day. At just around 7:50 p.m., a gunman … [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. This week focuses on … [Read more...]
Texas Muslim Capitol Day is a gathering hosted by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) which engages the Muslim community and local lawmakers. Two years ago, the Muslim participants who … [Read more...]
In this op-ed for the New York Times, Pulitzer Prize winning columnist Nicholas Kristof makes the point that “whenever an extremist in the Muslim world does something crazy, people demand that … [Read more...]
President Trump has defended his executive order temporarily banning refugees and nearly all citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries but according to the AP, “Trump [has] misstated the facts … [Read more...]
