Hulu’s comedy-drama series 'Ramy,' created by actor-comedian Ramy Youssef, follows a young Egyptian-American Muslim navigating life’s challenges. Youssef, center, appears at a press conference in 2019 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
A Muslim veteran of Hollywood has launched a production company with the hopes of creating more nuanced and positive portrayals of Muslims in film and television. The company, Chariot Entertainment, ...
"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 ...
(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 ...
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 ...