Fashion brand, Elora is one of the few muslim centric fashion boutiques that celebrate some of it’s African historical culture and merges it with the colourful essence that is part of the ‘African’ brand that is our beloved continent. Started in Nigeria, Elora explores the modern muslim woman and experiments with textures and colour in […]
IMAGE OF HODHEN LAIDEN An amazing page on Instagram, @DarkSkinnedHijabis is the brainchild of 24 year old London based graphic designer and artist, Hodhen Liaden. The Instagram page ‘Dark Skinned Hijabis’ in order to uplift the dark skinned hijab women worldwide, as they are a ”Minority within a minority”. The page was created in November […]
A Muslim woman, a wife and mother, who immigrated to the US in the 90s from Nigeria and became a CPA while raising her family in Tennessee, Zulfat Suara is now the First Muslim EVER to be elected Metro Council person to a Nashville public office. Despite the death threats and islamaphobic comments made to […]
Over the decades, millions of people from the Arab world have emigrated – some driven by conflict and persecution, others for economic and family reasons. They have settled in Europe, Australia, the Americas and Africa. But media coverage tends to focus on refugees fleeing war, poverty and persecution, often at the start of their treacherous journeys. These stories can sometimes be […]
A movie about the struggles of a 14-year-old Afro-Muslim girl, will be soon released in Ghana on the 12th of October 2019. Thrust into Accra by circumstances, a 14 year old Amina, from Northern Ghana must endure life in the slums of Accra and find a way to get back home. Amina escapes her impending […]
