Original TV series based on Arab and Muslim characters are beginning to go global, a Netflix executive said Saturday at the Red Sea Film Festival. Ahmed Sharkawi, director of Arab content, Netflix ...

As a Muslim girl living in America, I have felt severely misrepresented in the media throughout my life. I can probably recall one or two instances in which I have seen “someone like me” portrayed on ...

(The Conversation) — Post 9/11, brown and sometimes Black Muslim characters were portrayed as ‘good’ only when aligned with US state power. Muslim filmmakers are trying to change that. Such depictions ...

The show isn’t obsessed with telling outsiders who we are. It lets Muslims be complicated, contradictory, and sometimes messy. Photo Courtesy of Prime Growingupas recognizably Muslim in America, it ...

I am still coming off the high caused by The Muslim House activation at the Sundance Film Festival in late January. It was an inspiring space for fostering inclusion and elevating creative voices from ...

You can thank former President Donald Trump for the remarkable rise in TV shows featuring Muslim protagonists – including Hulu’s “Ramy,” Netflix’s “Mo” and Disney+’s “Ms. Marvel,” among others.

"Being an openly gay actor that is free in real life and in fiction is something that we need so much while growing up and also in our lives as adults," says the star of the Spanish teen drama. By ...

For over a century, Hollywood has tended to portray Muslim men through a remarkably narrow lens: as terrorists, villains or dangerous outsiders. From shows such as “24” and “Homeland” to procedural ...

Such depictions reinforce Orientalist stereotypes – a colonial worldview that treats cultures in the East as exotic, irrational or even dangerous. However, recent years have seen a noticeable increase ...