Meet OOMK (One Of My Kind magazine), the collective championing Muslim women in the zine world, based in London, where faith, art, and identity are being explored. Playing instruments was banned during Taliban rule in Afghanistan, and many conservative Muslims still frown on most forms of music today. That is why this all-female orchestra in […]

Michael Jordan has his own line of shoes. Tiger Woods has his own line of golf apparel. And now Ruqsana Begum, a Muslim muay Thai fighter, has her own line of sports hijabs. The children’s TV show Sesame Street has introduced a new character: Zari, a 6-year-old girl from Afghanistan. She made her debut on the […]

Meet Lulwah Al Hmoud, A Saudi artist, whose work reframes traditional Islamic geometry and calligraphy using techniques such as silkscreen printing, painting and gilding. Dalia Mogahed is an American Muslim scholar. The Tempest had the opportunity to speak to Mogahed about her work, projects, upbringing, and more. At a time when fear of international terror […]

Feminism in the United States is back in the spotlight, but it looks a lot different than it has in the past. Muslim-American women know this all too well. The stereotypes they face are many — that they are terrorists or subservient to men or lacking their own agency. If you haven’t yet heard of […]

The Edward Hopper House Art Center current exhibition, “Where We Are Standing: Contemporary Women Artists from Iran,” examines idea that artists’ roots have an enduring influence on their creative development through works by three artists who grew up in Iran and now live in North America. In her hometown of Aleppo, Loury was a budding […]

Separated from their husbands, or simply in need of more money, many Syrian refugee women find themselves supporting their families for the first time. Many of them have become the sole breadwinners for their families. Dolce & Gabbana’s abaya collection integrates key elements of the brand’s spring/summer 2016 collection, such as daisies, red roses and […]

The launch of hummel’s new Afghanistan national team shirt is another huge step forward in our brand’s mission to Change the World through Sport. It also represents an historic first for women’s football in Afghanistan. Sports is generally viewed as a male dominant field in Saudi Arabia but many women are breaking stereotypes associated with […]

Saraswati, a make up artist from Malaysia, has captured the attention of thousands on Instagram, after using her hijab to help transform herself into popular Disney characters. Under the name Queen of Luna, Saraswati has shared over 300 posts with her 27,000 followers – each of them incredible and accurate recreations of different cartoons and […]

 Amaal Said, a 20-year-old Danish-Somali photographer and poet, has quickly garnered a following through not only her striking selfies, but also in the illuminating portraits she makes of fellow Londoners. How the unique Arabimalayalam dialect came in handy to Muslim women in Kerala to connect with each other and overcome muting efforts from conservative sections […]

An Australian boxer talks to Maria Khwaja Bazi of Fair about being a Muslim woman and someone from an ethnic background. Some Muslim women say they feel insecure in wake of Paris and San Bernardino attacks. As a result of that, many of them learn self-defense moves in a class near Nashville, Tennessee. London Fashion […]