Nowadays everybody wanna talk about “Muslims” and “the Media,” but what about Muslims in the media? Pop-culture enthusiast Tawfiq Farraj talks to us about the representation of Muslims in TV and film and journalists Malika Bilal and Noreen Nasir join us to chat about how they balance the responsibilities of…
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altMuslimah’s Firdaus Arastu recently sat down with Zarqa Nawaz to discuss her memoir, Laughing All the Way to the Mosque. An excerpt from the book follows the interview. How would you summarize the book to an American audience? I would say this is a funny, happy, uplifting story about growing…
Read MoreAlthough the film American East tries too hard to impress upon viewers the plight of Muslims and Middle Eastern immigrants in the U.S., the aim of the film and its director, Hesham Izzawy, remains a noble one, highlighting issues and problems that Middle Eastern Americans and Muslim Americans continue to face
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