Making Nubian Identity, Ramey Dawoud
Ramey Dawoud is a Sudanese-American rapper, actor, songwriter, activist and author. He is of Nubian descent and his family originates...
Storytelling & Social Justice, Ausma Zehanat Khan
Ausma Zehanat Khan is the author of the award-winning Esa Khattak and Rachel Getty mystery series, which begins with The Unquiet Dead, as...
Cultural Nostalgia, Iqra Khan
Iqra Khan is a bilingual poet, artist, and activist from India. Her poems have appeared in Baltimore Review, Palette Poetry, The Bombay...
The Immigrant Experience & Interfaith Activism, Saadia Faruqi
Saadia Faruqi is a Pakistani American author, essayist and interfaith activist. She writes the children’s early reader series “Yasmin”...
The Poetics of Language, Tarek Alshikh Kheder
Tarek Alshikh Kheder is a Syrian academic, poet and philosopher based in Belarus. Passionate about languages, he is interested in the...
Persian Poetics, Muhammad Ali Mojaradi
Muhammad Ali Mojaradi was born to Iranian immigrant parents in Michigan and raised there. At age fifteen, despite the protests of his...
Hajj and The Arts of Pilgrimage, The Nasser D. Khalili Collection
The Nasser D. Khalili collection of Hajj and The Arts of Pilgrimage is remarkable, it contains approximately 5000 objects, covering all...
Folkloristan – Preserving Heritage through Storytelling, Komal Salman
Folkloristan is a digital platform dedicated to an enthralling series of magical adventures and epic romances with legendary royals, folk...
Hip Hop & Sufism - A Quest for the Divine, Baraka Blue
Baraka Blue is a poet, author and musician from Seattle, Washington. In addition to releasing multiple studio albums, authoring books of...
Deen & Dunya - Migration & Masculinity, Azan Ahmed
Azan Ahmed is an actor and poet based in North West London. He has been writing and performing poetry since 2019 and so far, his work...
Soul over Matter, Asmaa Abdellatif
Asmaa Abdellatif is a poet and an MA student of English literature, currently living in Cairo. Born and raised in the Egyptian...
Writing through Faith, Jamal Mehmood
Jamal Mehmood is a writer, poet and filmmaker based in London. His work has been featured at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Magma,...
Far from Mecca: Globalizing the Muslim Caribbean, Dr. Aliyah Khan
Dr. Aliyah Khan is associate professor in the U-M Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, and the Department of English Language...
Belonging: Being Bahraini & British, Ali Al-Jamri
Ali Al-Jamri is a Bahraini writer and poet based in the UK who is passionate about Bahraini history, the Baharna experience, human rights...
The Politics of Identity, Khadijah Elshayyal
Khadijah Elshayyal s passionate about activism and reclaiming narratives. A specialist on Muslims in Britain at the University of...
Why Representation Matters, Sana A Rashid
Sana A Rashid is an educator and a poet, who has collaborated with organisations in different parts of the world, including in India, the...
Myth, Djinn & Migration; Diversity in Storytelling, Maeeda. T. Khan
Maeeda. T. Khan is a speculative fiction author with a penchant for all things myth, science, and philosophy. She focuses on stories that...
Poetic Faith, Noor In My Heart
Noor In My Heart is a much-loved poet who shares her work on social media. She has created a community of people inspired by her words...
The Future of Muslim Poetry, Lote Tree Press
Lote Tree Press specialises in poetry of the Muslim world. It developed from an online Muslim poetry forum on Facebook which had been...
Stories of Hope: Challenging Perspectives, Sulaiman Othman
Sulaiman Othman is a journalist, digital curator, researcher. He manages Hikateya (meaning, ‘our story’ in Arabic), the community art...