Muslimah Media Watch

3 Seconds Divorce is a 2018 Hindi-language documentary, which started streaming on Netflix in mid-June., Made by Indo-Canadian filmmaker Shazia Javed the film explores the tradition known as instant divorce, or triple divorce, often occuring in South...

I have written extensively about media coverage of Latinx Muslims (here, here and here). My interest on the topic lays on my frustration regarding the amount of misunderstanding and erasure that goes on when people discuss Latinx Muslims. Most folks...

Content Warning: bombings, death, mass shooting.
With the the three-year anniversary of Jasmine Falling just around the corner, author Shereen Malherbe has graced us with The Tower, her second novel. Here’s the blurb from her website:
“Reem is a Syrian refugee who has arrived in London, trying to discover the whereabouts of her 10-year old brother, Adar. Obsessed with history and consumed by her fragmented memories of home, Reem is also hiding secrets she hopes will never be revealed...

The publishing world is slowly coming around to the fact that stories are more authentic when they are written by the people living them. 2018 thankfully continued to give us female Muslim characters in children’s fiction, young adult and adult fiction...