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.
In light of the Driver Ban lifting in Saudi Arabia and other Women's Rights gains across the Middle East and North Africa, scholars Benjamin G. Bishin and Feryal M. Cherif ask some pertinent … [Read more...]
Muslim and Christian women have come together for interfaith walks in Glasgow's Queens Park to discuss their lives and faith. Reverend Susan Brown's organized these walks to encourage diverse people … [Read more...]
Rahmat Phyakul and his wife Sukatee founded Masjid Al-Fatiha, a small Thai mosque in Azusa, California. Rahmat was raised as a Buddhist in Thailand until he met Sukatee in the 1960s and converted to … [Read more...]
A new study from Biola University has found that television characters of Middle Eastern and North African descent are often written stereotypically or are even ignored on screen, and that the few … [Read more...]
Mona Haydar's family had some advice for her: “If you want to be taken seriously as an academic, you can’t be rapping.” Haydar -- a 30-year-old Syrian-American activist, poet and mother of two from … [Read more...]
Last month, Vox and other news publications reported that the United Nations Human Rights panel had accused the Chinese government of unfairly cracking down on Uighurs, an ethnic Muslim minority in … [Read more...]
Vox and major newspapers are reporting that a United Nations Human Rights panel has accused the Chinese government of unfairly cracking down on Uighurs, an ethnic Muslim minority in China’s western … [Read more...]
StepFeed presents this listicle of Muslim superhero characters pronouncing "if anyone is in need of superheroes today, it's the people suffering from the backlash of Islamophobia." 1. Ms. Marvel - … [Read more...]
Sylvia Chan-Malik is a scholar of American and gender studies at Rutgers University. She was raised in Northern California by Chinese immigrants who were culturally Buddhist but not religious. In … [Read more...]
We feature a lot of stories on Storybank about Muslim women who both choose to wear the hijab and who choose not to wear the hijab. But here is an account of a woman who has chosen to remove her hijab … [Read more...]
