Syrian Refugees: The Real Story
Since the civil war started in 2011, more than 11 million Syrians have been driven from their homes – that’s half of the country’s population. It’s one of the largest refugee catastrophes since World … [Read more...]
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.
Since the civil war started in 2011, more than 11 million Syrians have been driven from their homes – that’s half of the country’s population. It’s one of the largest refugee catastrophes since World … [Read more...]
Real estate mogul, Bashar Masri, is hoping to open his new, sprawling apartment complex in Rawabi – which would be the first new Palestinian city built in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Like the film … [Read more...]
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Funded by the generosity of the local Muslim community, the Muslim Free Hospital was established in Rangon, Burma (now Yangon, Myanmar) in 1937 and was available to everyone, regardless of religious … [Read more...]
In the aftermath of the Copenhagen synagogue shooting, many Norwegian Muslims are planning to form a “ring of peace” around an Oslo synagogue this weekend as a symbolic show of support. As their … [Read more...]
Mark Cohen has had an impressive forty-year career teaching about Jews in the Islamic world, and in this article, he talks about his recent visiting professorship in Abu Dhabi where he found Muslim … [Read more...]
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According to the ‘British Muslims in Numbers' study, the number of Muslims in the UK nearly doubled from 1.55 million in 2001 to 2.71 million in 2011. A detailed look at this report and its findings … [Read more...]
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In this video clip from the BBC, two British Muslims talk about their identity and the way in which they are treated. … [Read more...]
In the aftermath of the Paris shootings, Muslims in France are questioning the idea of state secularism called Laïcité, where public exercise of religion is banned. The New York Times takes a look at … [Read more...]
Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi won top prize at the prestigious Berlin Film Festival for his film “Taxi” over the weekend which means one thing – despite the austere restrictions, there’s no stopping … [Read more...]
As many see the South as being less accepting of religious diversity, the Daily Beast takes a look at what it’s like to be Muslim in this region of the country. … [Read more...]