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.
In this two-part series for Roger Ebert’s blog, scholar and Hollywood consultant Omer M. Mozaffar discusses Islam in Western cinema, taking a look at such diverse films as “Batman v Superman: Dawn of … [Read more...]
The Pew Research Center has just put out a report on refugee resettlement in the United States. Here are some of the findings (taken directly from report): The U.S. has received 28,957 Muslim … [Read more...]
Marni Gustavson is the executive director of Parsa (which stands for Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation Services for Afghanistan and also means “integrity” in Farsi), an independent charity that runs … [Read more...]
More than 30,000 Muslims from all over the world came together in the UK for a three-day event protesting religious extremism (and yes, ISIS). This was all part of the 40th annual Jalsa Salana … [Read more...]
Nadiya Hussain is a big deal in the UK –she won the mega popular cooking show “Great British Bake Off” (which was the most-watched television show of 2015). Since then, she’s released a new cookbook, … [Read more...]
According to ThinkProgress, “Attacks against American Muslims are at peak levels this year, a phenomenon experts say is directly related to the widespread use of Islamophobic rhetoric by politicians … [Read more...]
CNN interviewed five American Muslims about this year’s electrifying (and some say terrifying) election for president. According to the cable news network, they “expressed anxiety, frustration, pain … [Read more...]
Across the Middle East and North Africa, female driven content on YouTube has had a phenomenal growth these past few years -- Saudi Arabia, Morocco, the United Arab Emirates, and Iraq are the leaders … [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) Syrian Refugee … [Read more...]
A new report by the Women and Equalities Committee finds that Muslim women are the most economically disadvantaged group in British society. The report states that Muslim women are three times more … [Read more...]
