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.
Founded thirty-five years ago by Cambodian refugees from the Cham ethnic group, the Islamic Center of Santa Ana moved into a new space this past Spring and a first order of business was reaching out … [Read more...]
Celebrating nearly one year since opening for Friday prayers last August, the Mariam mosque in Denmark counts nearly 100 members. Sherin Khankan is the mosque‘s imam, making her the country’s first … [Read more...]
A new survey by the Arab American Institute (AAI) was released early this week finding that there is a growing number of Americans who hold a favorable opinion of Muslim and Arabs – the highest levels … [Read more...]
Adeeb Joudeh lives and works in Jerusalem, and is the owner of a special key. It’s an “ancient cast-iron key,” about 500 years old, and is the key to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, where many … [Read more...]
Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol is a Grammy nominated Turkish-American composer, jazz pianist and singer. The Boston Globe has called Sanlıkol’s music “colorful, fanciful, full of rhythmic life, and full of … [Read more...]
In this op-ed for the Toronto Star from earlier this year (but still relevant today), social justice advocate Shazlin Rahman notes “these past two months has seen unprecedented levels of verbal and … [Read more...]
Nearly 90% of Indonesia’s 260 million people identify as Muslim. The country also has some of the greatest expanses of rainforests, wetlands and mangroves — carbon-rich environments that are quickly … [Read more...]
Every fall, the quaint seaside town of Essaouira, Morocco reclaims its lost Jewish community by staging a lively festival of Andalusian music designed to bring Jews and Muslims together for a weekend … [Read more...]
Though Belgrade is overwhelmingly Orthodox Christian, there are still approximately 20,000 Muslims residing in the Serbian capital and they only have one mosque, which dates back to 1575, for the … [Read more...]
Over 600 Muslim and Jewish women came together early this month for the fourth annual Muslim Jewish Women’s Leadership Conference which took place at Drew University in Madison, New Jersey, and was … [Read more...]
