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.
Funnyman Mo Amer tells NPR that when he was nine, he left his home in Kuwait with his mother and sister. "It was a tough time. We fled war in Kuwait and we ended up in Houston, Texas." When he was … [Read more...]
“It’s very hard to be a female filmmaker in Hollywood, that is for sure,” says writer-director Lena Khan, whose parents hail from India and eventually settled in Los Angeles. “I think they feel like … [Read more...]
On the night of Jan. 29, 2017, members of the Centre Culturel Islamique Québec gathered inside Quebec City’s largest mosque for the most important prayer of the day. At just around 7:50 p.m., a gunman … [Read more...]
Religion News Service reports: More than 130 American Muslim leaders and scholars have signed an open letter condemning the Chinese government’s continued persecution and detention of the mostly … [Read more...]
Here's a list of recent not-to-be-missed stories from across the web: 1) TNetflix’s First Series From the UAE Now Streaming… #Justice!. The legal drama was co-created by William Finkelstein (“LA … [Read more...]
Dominique Ray, 42, was pronounced dead at 10:12 p.m. last night due to a lethal injection at the state prison in Atmore, Alabama. Ray was a Muslim inmate who had filed a legal challenge because he … [Read more...]
Joram Van Klaveren is known in the Netherlands as a former lawmaker in the Party of Freedom which was led by Dutch anti-Islam populist Geert Wilders. And like Mr. Wilders, Mr. Van Klaveren was … [Read more...]
In this video clip for Vice News, reporter Lee Adams traveled to Houston Texas, home of America's first "Islam in Spanish" center, to ask the question: "Why are so many Latinos converting to … [Read more...]
In this op-ed for Religion News Service, Simran Jeet Singh writes about his time teaching Islamic studies at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. What makes Mr. Singh's story particularly unique … [Read more...]
Pope Francis arrived in the United Arab Emirates on Sunday, making him the first pontiff to visit the Arabian Peninsula, the birthplace of Islam. Washington Post reports on top factoids about the … [Read more...]
