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Film reveals tales of Australian Muslim soldiers

Film reveals tales of Australian Muslim soldiers

2023-04-03
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Crescent Under The Southern Cross: Saluting Our Muslim Anzacs Director: Simon Wilmot Duration: 19min A new documentary has uncovered the untold story of Australia’s Muslim soldiers during World War II, revealing the contributions and sacrifi...
New film explores why Muslim women choose hijab

New film explores why Muslim women choose hijab

2023-04-03
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World Hijab Day Host and filmmaker: Amal Mohamud Duration: 4min For Muslim women, wearing hijab is an act of worship as well as a way to practice modesty, a principle expected in the behavior and dress of all Muslims. As the world marks the 11th ...
French Muslim women challenge stereotypes in new documentary

French Muslim women challenge stereotypes in new documentary

2023-04-02
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Documentary: Marianne Director: Valentina Canavesio Duration: 76min A documentary following seven Muslim women and their relationship with hijab premiered at the Broadway Theatre in Barking, one day after the International Women’s Day. Comi...
Documentary: An Act of Worship

Documentary: An Act of Worship

2022-12-06
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Experience of Three Muslim Women in America Director: Nausheen Dadabhoy Producer: Sofian Khan, Kristi Jacobson, Heba Elorbany Duration: 82 Minutes In “An Act of Worship”, Pakistani-American filmmaker Nausheen Dadabhoy weaves a gloriou...
Reflecting the problems of American Muslim families in a series

Reflecting the problems of American Muslim families in a series

2022-10-17
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According to Shia News, the third season of the "Ramy" series, which was released on the Hulu network, will last for two weeks. A series starring, directed and written by Ramy Youssef, an American-Egyptian artist who won the Golden Globe Award and wa...
The Balance review – Film about Muslim entertainers treads a fine line

The Balance review – Film about Muslim entertainers treads a fine line

2022-07-10
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The rise of an Islamic arts industry is celebrated by its screen, music and comedy stars, but the view rarely strays beyond a western perspective
The Great Muslim American Road Trip

The Great Muslim American Road Trip

2022-02-20
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Their 'Ask a Muslim' project went viral. Now rapper-activist Mona Haydar and husband Sebastian Robins have a travel show about Islam in the United States.
DW Documentary: Women in Islam (2020)

DW Documentary: Women in Islam (2020)

2020-10-07
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In this film, director Nadja Frenz introduces Muslim women who have set out to find their own path to emancipation. Together they investigate the role of women in Islam and study the Surah, the chapters of the Quran. Can the western concepts of gende...
The Feeling of Being Watched

The Feeling of Being Watched

2019-02-20
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When a filmmaker investigates rumors of surveillance in her Arab-American neighborhood in Chicago, she uncovers one of the largest FBI terrorism probes conducted before 9/11 and reveals its enduring impact on the community.
10 Must Watch Documentaries on Muslim Civilization in Europe

10 Must Watch Documentaries on Muslim Civilization in Europe

2018-11-04
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A list of useful and informative documentaries that present excellent overviews of contributions to science and technology from Muslim Civilization is provided. They serve as a window into a golden age with so much more to discover. We remember the w...
Documentary: The Judge

Documentary: The Judge

2018-05-31
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Director: Erika Cohn Runtime: 76 min Production: Idle Wild Films Release Date: April 13, 2018 Official Website: www.thejudgefilm.com The Leiden University Centre for the Study of Islam and Society (LUCIS) presented a film screening of The Judge ...
Documentary: Being Muslim in the U.S.

Documentary: Being Muslim in the U.S.

2018-05-03
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This video offers a look inside the beliefs and attitudes of Muslims in America; it features data from Pew Research Center’s 2017 survey, as well as the personal stories of Muslims from across the United States. The early days of Donald Trump&...
Islam and the Future of Tolerance: The Movie

Islam and the Future of Tolerance: The Movie

2018-01-09
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Director:  Jay Shapiro Producers:  Suzi Jamil and Desh Amila Islam and the Future of Tolerance is a feature-length documentary that tells the story of an unlikely conversation on a topic of grave importance, and how it changed two foes in...
World's Biggest Pilgrimage Now Underway

World's Biggest Pilgrimage Now Underway

2017-11-08
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And Why You've Never Heard of It? 10th November 2017 Arbaeen Day, 20 million plus people will be walking 50 miles... FIND OUT WHY? World's Bi...
Channel 4 Documentary: “My Week As A Muslim”

Channel 4 Documentary: “My Week As A Muslim”

2017-10-22
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Channel 4 prompts anger and mockery after 'blacking up' white woman to show Islamophobia Channel 4 is facing mockery after airing a documentary which went to the lengths of getting a white woman to go undercover in ‘brownface’ ...
Mosquers Film Festival opens

Mosquers Film Festival opens

2017-07-27
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MOSQUERS 2017 Date: September 09, 2017 Venue: Winspear Centre, Edmonton, AB T5J 4X8, Canada Submissions Deadline: August 7, 2017 The Mosquers Film Festival is North America’s leading film competition with a focus on promoting awa...
Documentary 'Sacred' sees universality of religion through the world

Documentary 'Sacred' sees universality of religion through the world

2017-05-18
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Academy Award-winning documentarian Thomas Lennon marshaled 40 teams of filmmakers from around the world to collaborate on his latest project, the thought-provoking “Sacred,” which explores the role of religion in everyday life. Divided i...
Islamic Documentary: "Why Can't I be a SuShi?"

Islamic Documentary: "Why Can't I be a SuShi?"

2017-02-27
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A documentary by British-Iraqi director Hoda Yahya Elsoudani tackles the Sunni-Shia divide from the perspective of two young sisters. Raised in the UK, the 30-year-old filmmaker was born to Iraqi refugee parents fleeing war, and she has always been f...
Muslims "Unlike" Us: British Muslim reviews BBC show

Muslims "Unlike" Us: British Muslim reviews BBC show

2016-12-25
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Like some hyped up reality TV contestant, Muslims are in-your-face 24/7, whether you like us or not. Admittedly, we most often appear on UK screens via news bulletins; dying in conflict, being attacked by far-right extremists or shoved into a police ...
"I Am Rohingya": A Documentary

"I Am Rohingya": A Documentary

2016-12-17
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A Film by Innerspeak 14 Rohingya refugee youth living in Ontario got together to save their people through theatre. Violencem. Murder. Crisis. Stateless. Refugee. Genocide. The most oppressed people on Earth. This is what you will find when you Goog...
Exposure: Islam's Non-Believers

Exposure: Islam's Non-Believers

2016-10-15
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Islam’s Non-Believers, a new film by the award-winning film-maker Deeyah Khan, was aired on 13 October 2016 on ITV Exposure at 10:40-11:40pm London time. The (Negative) film is the first in depth documentary following the Council of Ex-Mu...
BBC Radio Documentary: Imams in the Vatican

BBC Radio Documentary: Imams in the Vatican

2016-10-12
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BBC World Service commissioned a documentary to follow the Cambridge Muslim College 2015-16 Diploma students to Rome and the Vatican. Some of the brightest and best students of Islam in Britain round off their education at the Cambridge Muslim Colleg...
Film and Q&A: Blessed are the Strangers

Film and Q&A: Blessed are the Strangers

2016-10-05
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A FILM BY AHMED PEERBUX & SEAN HANIF WHYTE The Compelling True Story of One of Britain’s Earliest Muslim Convert Communities. The film screening and Q&A with Director Ahmed Peerbux & Abdulhamid Evans: Date: October 22, 2016 @ 7:0...
BBC Radio 4 Program on Shi’i-Sunni Split

BBC Radio 4 Program on Shi’i-Sunni Split

2016-09-25
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Producer of the program is Neil McCarthy. In the first of two programs explaining the Sunni-Shia divide past and present, Tarek Osman tells the epic story of how Islam split after the death of the Prophet Mohammed. Many of the conflicts raging in th...
The short film Hijabi World: What American Women Who Wear Hijab Want You to Know

The short film Hijabi World: What American Women Who Wear Hijab Want You to Know

2016-08-31
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In the short film Hijabi World, Rutgers University students—specifically, Muslim women who observe hijab—talk about the day-to-day challenges of wearing a headscarf. “Sometimes you itch in your own skin,” says one woman n...
United States of Hate: Muslims under Attack

United States of Hate: Muslims under Attack

2016-08-18
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Award-winning director and producer Steph Atkinson brings us this one-off documentary, which investigates the terrifying scale of the rise of anti-Muslim sentiment in the US.
JIHAD: A Story of the Others

JIHAD: A Story of the Others

2016-07-13
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JIHAD: A Story of the others is a 2015 documentary film by Emmy and Peabody Award winning Norwegian director Deeyah Khan. The film is produced by Khan's production company Fuuse.
The Jihadis Next Door, A Channel 4 Documentary

The Jihadis Next Door, A Channel 4 Documentary

2016-02-02
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Channel 4 documentary, The Jihadis Next Door, followed a group of Britain's most dangerous extremists for two years, and aims to highlight the ideological differences between ‘ordinary Muslims’ and those extremists.
Dutch Pranksters Trick People with ‘Quran’ Passages from Bible

Dutch Pranksters Trick People with ‘Quran’ Passages from Bible

2015-12-05
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Dutch YouTube channel Dit is Normaal (This is Normal) has exposed how much of people’s views on Islam are based on prejudice in its latest episode, “The Holy Quran Experiment.” Dit is Normaal travels to random Dutch ...
‘Noah’ Way! Movie Blocked in China, Banned by Muslim Nations

‘Noah’ Way! Movie Blocked in China, Banned by Muslim Nations

2014-05-08
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Production company Paramount Pictures tried hard to cast its “Noah” movie in a secular light, stressing its “environmental message” over biblical truths — but apparently, censors in China weren’t buying i...
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