Acclaimed British actor Riz Ahmed and his production company, Left Handed Films, will partner with Pillars Fund on a new fellowship for aspiring Muslim writers and directors. Ahmed said Muslim communities in the U.S. and U.K. “are amongst the most economically disadvantaged.” He said there’s no other program like the Pillars Artist Fellowship,...
STOCKHOLM (AA) – Muslim immigrant families in western Sweden continue to protest against state social services for “unjustly” taking their children away. Protesters, demonstrating in different cities of Sweden since Feb. 7, gathered in Gothenburg’s Gustaf Adolf Torg Square for their eighth demonstration. Families were h...
Among religious minorities, Muslim Americans were estimated to be 27% of the population, but they actually only make up 1%. The same is true for Jewish, and other racial and ethnic minorities, such as Native Americans, Asian and Black populations. Two recent YouGov polls asked respondents to guess the percentage of American adults who belong ...
More than $1.5 billion has been spent on settling police misconduct claims in the United States between 2010 and 2020, according to a Washington Post analysis. Among major U.S. cities, Chicago had the highest rate of misconduct claims involving officers named in multiple cases. More than 70% of the city’s roughly 1,500 payments during that [&h...
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro signed a decree Tuesday providing for free menstrual supplies for low-income women and girls. The far-right leader signed the executive order at a ceremony for International Women’s Day. The new decree will be funded by a budget of $26 million reaching an estimated 3.6 million people, according to the h...
Spain’s Interior Ministry denied wrongdoing Friday after a viral video showing several Spanish agents beating a young African migrant who crossed the border into the city of Melilla. The video was captured by Spain’s public broadcaster RTVE. It shows a young man, possibly a minor, slowly climbing down the border fence separating Spain’s Africa...
A university in Munich, Germany has apologized publicly to two Muslim women students for discriminatory practices during online exams. The incidents sparked widespread criticism on social media, prompting the apology. HM Hochschule Munchen HOT SCHOOL MEWNCHIN said on Twitter “it offered sincere apologies” to the students who were asked by inst...
Elon Musk has been criticized by the Auschwitz-Birkenau museum for comparing Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to Adolf Hitler. The CEO of Tesla tweeted a meme showing a photo of Hitler with the words “Stop comparing me to Justin Trudeau” and “I had a budget.” The tweet was later deleted. Musk’s use of Hitler’s image […]...
The eighth Saudi Film Festival will be held June 2 to 9 at Ithra in the city of Dhahran. This year’s theme will be “poetic cinema.” The festival aims to enrich the local cinematic scene, paying tribute to local greats and offering seminars, advanced training workshops and screenings. In an effort to foster global collaboration, […]...
Uyghurs in the U.S. protested in front of the White House Saturday against the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. They criticized the Chinese government and accused it of carrying out “genocide” in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. In 2019, Human Rights Watch confirmed that the Chinese government has committed, and continues to commit, crim...
