By AmaniThe Pan-Arab Semifinals of Microsoft’s Imagine Cup this year was bustling with youth that represented the brightest tech minds in the region. Amid all the excitement, one beautiful factor stood out at the competition’s backdrop of the American University of Cairo: a large portion of those youth were women. Two young women from Oman sacrificed…
By AmaniMuslim Girl teamed up with Teen Vogue to bring you #AskAMuslimGirl, a video series delivering the voices of our squad of millennial Muslim women on the topics that young Americans want to hear about. Especially with the current election cycle, there is a media mayhem surrounding Islam and Muslims, and a lot of inaccuracies and…
By AmaniAfter almost seven years of growing with MuslimGirl.net, it seems that MG has now hit her own moment of puberty by springing from .net to .com. Thanks to you and your freaking revolutionary support, we’re growing in a lot of exciting new ways. You can now access all our muslimgirl.net content directly on the new and…
By AmaniAhmad Hussam, 24, and his partner Nick Armero, 25, have made it their mission to bring Islamic history into the spotlight. They are the co-founders of Peace House, a production studio based in Tampa, FL that has been churning out powerful documentaries and viral social media video content highlighting important stories in an entertaining way for…
By AmaniI’ve been eagerly awaiting this moment that I finally get to say these three words: “We did it!” “We love you!” And, most importantly, “I believe it.” We successfully raised our collective goal of $25,000 to make this year the Ramadan of the Muslim Girl: to empower our mission of becoming the first mainstream media…
By AmaniIf you open up your Snapchat app today, you’ll see an unlikely live story — the West Bank. Snapchat announced yesterday that it will be featuring the story today, which comes days after they made the insensitive mistake of featuring Tel Aviv on the anniversary of Israel’s massacre in Gaza last summer. The @snapchatsupport Twitter…
By AmaniThem boys Karter Zaher and Jay Deen are at it again. This time, they make an offshoot of a true #MuslimGirlFAVE, the song “Tuesday” by ILoveMakonnen. Except it’s about Friday. And mosques goin’ up. Because that’s what Muslims DO, OKAY!?
By AmaniThe notoriously elusive and legendary street artist Banksy just revealed some new art — and it’s in Gaza. This time, it’s set against the backdrop of Gaza’s ruins after Israeli forces bombed it back into the pre-Industrial Era in a military campaign last summer. This is the second time that Banksy creates art in Palestine…
By Amani#MuslimGirlProbs is our weekly link roundup of headlines, stories, events, and situations that make us want to rip our hijabs off. :eyes: It’s been a very emotionally exhausting couple of weeks for all of us. The heightened hate crimes and political neglect are just phase 1. Get ready for the second painful phase that we…
By AmaniYou tell it, Muhib Yusuf!!! :raised_hands: If you’re reading this, you’re definitely that one friend, don’t even play. Otherwise, you’re sharing this with that one friend. Cuz everybody’s got that one friend like…
By AmaniTanzila “Taz” Ahmed is an artist and activist who is countering the ugly narrative of Islamophobia through humor with a refreshingly original, unapologetically cheeky new art form: Muslim Valentine’s Day cards. Check out MuslimGirl’s Q&A with the artist: MuslimGirl: What gave you the idea of making Muslim Valentine’s Day cards? What are your goals? Taz:…
By AmaniDear beautiful, beloved, badass MuslimGirl readers, As you may have noticed, our blog went offline Monday evening for a whole 24 hours before going back up on a Tuesday [hijabi Drake reference.] We crashed because of an overload of traffic from you people. Thanks a lot. For a brief period of time, our entire worlds came to…
By AmaniSo, we’ve been low-key letting you in on #MuslimGirlProbs we’ve been feeling here and there, and you were really into it. Some of y’all were even like PREEEEACH SISTA! :raised_hands: You already know our biggest #MuslimGirlProbs of them all is, you know, this little ongoing battle we like to call FIGHTING FOR OUR VOICE? TRYING…
By AmaniMy first question as I read Haroon Moghul’s blog about participating in the Muslim Leadership Initiative in Israel is: who are you? Forty-four members of my family were murdered in cold blood in Palestine and I’m still trying to figure out how that has anything to do with you. I’m a Palestinian American. I’ve been…
By AmaniJazakum Allahu khairun, sheikhas.
