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.
Iraqi metal band Acrassicauda was famously featured in the 2007 documentary "Heavy Metal Baghdad" and two years later, found asylum in America. Billboard interviews the band about their first … [Read more...]
Thousands of One Direction fans recently came to singer Zayn Malik’s defense after Bill Maher poked what most considered was a cruel joke, comparing Zayn to the Boston Bomber. Cultural writer Safa … [Read more...]
This BBC clip discusses the growing phenomenon of YouTube Muslim comedians like American pranksters Adam Saleh and Sheikh Akbar, and UK comedian and activist Humza Arshad. These Muslim funnymen all … [Read more...]
British-Muslim YouTube sensation Humza Arshad is using his comedy status for good, and is going to London inner city schools, steering the impressionable students away from extremism. In his … [Read more...]
MTV interviews the Muslim punk band, 'The Kominas.' As guitarist Shahjehan Khan says about the union: “Punk, as an ideal, is no stranger to politics, so there’s actually really no reason the two can’t … [Read more...]
A former first lady of Qatar has founded The Qatar Digital Library making public for the first time historical archives of Arab art and maps, as well as an extensive music catalog from the Gulf … [Read more...]
In honor of Nowruz (Persian New Year), Indiewire presents their top 30 Iranian films. As the trade remarks on what makes Iranian cinema so vital and special: “[most] impressive is the fact that as … [Read more...]
Partly inspired by female boxer Ambreen Sadiq, the critically acclaimed play "No Guts, No Heart, No Glory” tells the story of Muslim female boxers in North England, and how they break through … [Read more...]
Musical group Riyaaz Qawwali says they are strongly influenced by Qawwali – a musical tradition going back 700 years in India and Pakistan where singers performed Sufi Muslim poetry. The songs are … [Read more...]
What happens when a Muslim-Lebanese actor stars in a Bill O’Reilly adaption of his best-selling “Killing Jesus”…? Um, this is not a joke – but be sure to watch Haaz Sleiman, starring as Jesus, in the … [Read more...]
