Novel, by Laura Moriarty, published by HarperTeen (2018) As Muslims across the US are being sent to camps in Nevada, 15-year-old...

Hala, released today, December 6, on Apple TV Plus, follows a Pakistani-American hijabi teenager as she struggles to reconcile the...

Novel by Camilla Gibb, published by Random House (2007) Sweetness in the Belly first came to my attention when an adaptation of the book...

I always thought it was a logistical impossibility for a Muslim Impossible review to merit all five bloodied swords – and a flaw in my...

As an Arab and a Muslim, watching the puppeteering of Nadia by the writers of Elite continues to be a triggering, disappointing and...

Stacey Dooley, a British reality show participant turned documentary maker, travels to northern Syria to speak with European women who...

Reader beware, spoilers be there For a show with a long history of giving space, nuance and complexity to marginalised voices, the latest...

London Has Fallen (2016), a sequel to the 2013 Olympus Has Fallen, is little more than a tribute to the Good American/Bad Arab dichotomy...

Novel by Charles Cumming, published by St Martin's Press (2019) The Moroccan Girl follows spy novelist Kit Carradine as he is recruited...

TV series (Season 1, 2018) On first impression, this Spanish series seems to promise nuanced Muslim characterisation, and a dramatization...

For all their attempts to shake its predecessor’s stereotyping, Aladdin is still the exotifying, Orientalist, flattened version of what a wh

Sand whipping against endless dunes. The mystic howl of a native singing. The caravan of camels. It’s a painfully familiar picture that...

Novel by Jenny Ashcroft, published by Sphere (2016) Another day, another white heroine in ~Arabia~, this time, 22-year-old Olivia...

I get it, it’s hard to resist the furrowed brow of principal protection officer (or bodyguard to you and I) of David Budd (Richard...

Novel by Christine Mangan, published by Little, Brown (2018). The Times described this debut bestseller as “unputdownable,” which – inane...