Zainab bint Younus is a Canadian Muslim woman who writes a popular blog under the moniker, The Salafi Feminist. Since 2006, she has published posts about topics related to Islamic teaching, various issues…
While a lot of the visual self-representations of Muslim Americans work to distance Muslims from the terrorist narratives, the Amazon series The Ridge employs the terrorist tropes in order to point out the…
While popular films have continued to reinforce the negative stereotypes of Muslims and Arabs that Jack Shaheen has tirelessly documented, a few recent TV shows have attempted to portray Muslim…
Comedian and Daily Show alum Aasif Mandvi created the 4-part web series, Halal in the Family, in 2015 as a way to use comedy and creativity to combat negative stereotypes of Muslim…
This post was originally posted in July 2015 on the Center for Media, Religion and Culture’s Third Spaces blog. It is disheartening but not unsurprising that Muslim women who choose to…
Kristin M. Peterson 