I saw this documentary, called Gay Muslims, quite a while ago…it came out more than two years ago! Still, I found that not too many people knew about it or had seen it. And with A Jihad For Love touring around the country right now, I thought it might be a good idea to take […]

This is a few of months late but I just discovered this episode of The Agenda with Steve Paikin, from TVO in Toronto. Having aired a few months ago, this episode asked the question “Who is today’s young Muslim woman?” The panel consisted of 7 Muslim women, 4 in studio and 2 via satellite. All […]

The writers of As the World Turns are getting tired of calm, obedient Ameera. The plot has taken a dramatic turn — Ameera is now plotting and untrustworthy, in addition to being calm and obedient. Since we last left off (here, here), the show has added a tone of creepiness, evident in the ever-present ominous […]

This may not be timely, but it makes up for it in offensiveness. Watch this skit, MadTV’s idea of what English-language Al Jazeera is like. The skit is packed with racist stereotypes about the Middle East. The only female reporter in the skit is a woman in niqab (presumably forced on her). She says, “My […]

This was written by Safiya, and originally appeared at Outlines.   This week the programme is set in the U.K Regular viewers and/or readers of these reviews may have noticed that this programme is a tad fond of sweeping generalisations. The first words spoken by Armani Zain are: “Tonight I’m exploring a world right on […]

This was written by Safiya, and originally published at Outlines. You can see earlier reviews of this show here. This week’s episode is in Cairo. Presenter Amani Zain is quick to paint it as a party town from her experiences there as a student. Zain gives a good insight into dress in Cairo, explaining that […]

Yesterday, PBS aired a special called Stand Up: Muslim American Comics Come of Age. Maysoon Zayid and Tissa Hami are two Muslim women comics profiled in the documentary, and Muslimah Media Watch was lucky enough to get interviews via email with them both. Muslimah Media Watch: Salaam waleykum. I want to say first that it’s […]

Last month we wrote about the introduction of a Muslim character on the popular American soap opera As the World Turns. Ameera Ali Aziz, arrived freshly from Iraq, faced deportation unless she married Noah, who was already in a relationship with boyfriend Luke. In the episodes since the wedding, the plot has thickened as the […]

MMW thanks Anne for the tip! The soap opera As the World Turns has recently introduced a Muslim character: Ameera Ali Aziz, an Iraqi woman. Played by the Iranian-American Tala Ashe, Ameera appears one day and becomes entangled in the other characters’ lives. Here’s the basic summary: Following the death of her mother, who was […]

On Saturday and Sunday, CNN ran a program called On Deadly Ground: The Women of Iraq. Hosted by Arwa Damon, the program briefly profiled several women who live in Iraq; at the beginning, she promises, “You will meet the women of Iraq.” The program opens on a street somewhere in Baghdad: unpaved, muddy, with trash […]