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.
Though the American Dolls line is known to portray a variety of ethnicities, there is currently no doll representing American Muslim little girls. Twelve year old Salwa and her nine-year old sister, … [Read more...]
Scholar Dr. Junaid Jahangir presents fives instances of "Muslims who diminish hatemongers for espousing bigotry and a narrow worldview": 1) Muslims who go the distance for humanity In 2014, a … [Read more...]
In the wake of the recent slaying of 17-year-old Nabra Hassanen near a Virginia mosque, Muslim young women who wear the hijab are saying that they are facing resistance with wearing the identifiable … [Read more...]
We here at Muslims on Screen and Television (MOST) have crafted an 'in case you missed it' #ICYMI list of this past week's most timely and relevant stories from across the web: 1) MOST Hosts … [Read more...]
In this op-ed for the Los Angeles Times, journalist David Hansen (who is non-Muslim) talks about his experience being part of a guided tour of local mosques in Orange County, CA. The journalist took … [Read more...]
The Supreme Court ruled Monday that Trump’s new travel ban, which bars citizens from six Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States for a period of 90 days, is allowed to restart today. … [Read more...]
According to the Washington Post: Visitors from six predominantly Muslim nations (Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen) will be denied visas to the United States under new guidelines that … [Read more...]
From Afghanistan and Iraq to Singapore to Turkey, millions of Muslims around the world celebrated the end of the holy month of Ramadan. Eid al-Fitr literally means "Festival of the Breaking of the … [Read more...]
Malaysia currently ranks first on a global list of Muslim-friendly tourist destinations which may surprise some as only 60% of the country is Muslim (versus neighboring Indonesia, home to the world’s … [Read more...]
"The war didn’t leave any choice for me… I had to come here with my daughter.” Those are the first words of “Dalya’s Other Country,” a documentary airing on PBS’ series “POV,” which chronicles … [Read more...]
