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.
“We need to follow the teachings of Islam to practice sound ecology in our valley,” Sartaj Sofi sermonized to his congregation of over 500 in Kasmir, India during Friday prayers. According to … [Read more...]
In Spider-Man: Far From Home, British actress and model Zoha Rahman plays Spider-Man’s Muslim classmate, making it the first hijab wearing character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe! When Ms. … [Read more...]
John Hope Franklin Young Scholars is an educational program geared for middle and high-schoolers of Durham, NC where the student's become "historian adventurers." The program this year is entitled … [Read more...]
Jabaran Akram, 22, lives in Brighton Beach where he is the community liaison for Councilmember Chaim Deutsch as well as an auxiliary officer for the NYPD. Akram, whose parents hail from Pakistan, … [Read more...]
“Wearing the hijab can make dating harder because people will make assumptions about your sexual experience, what sort of relationship you’re looking for, and even what type of person you are,” says … [Read more...]
For Muslims pursuing the chaplaincy field, a new training program has recently launched in Minnesota, home to 150,000 Muslims. The program educates and guides participants on how to achieve a … [Read more...]
June 20th was World Refugee Day and Glamour magazine asked high fashion model Halima Aden to write about her experiences growing up in the Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya, and here are some snippets from … [Read more...]
Last week rapper and actor Riz Ahmed (“The OA,” “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” and “The Night Of") was onstage at the CAA Amplify conference in Ojai calling for the audience there -- Hollywood … [Read more...]
According to UNICEF, nearly 800 million people alive today were married as children. Even though child marriage is against the law in most countries and considered a human rights violation by the … [Read more...]
The Pillars Fund first started in Chicago nine years ago, when a handful of successful American Muslims pooled their resources together and began to help fund nonprofit Muslim groups in America. … [Read more...]
