Posts under ‘Young Muslims and New Media’

There have been many times that I have gone on trips and was “Flying While Muslim.” What does that mean? Well, this expression has come to describe the reality of travel for all Muslims, non-Muslim Arabs, and anyone who looks like they could be from the Middle East or any other region of the world [...]

When hundreds of thousands of Iranians took to the street to protest against the presidential election results last month, many of them also flooded to Twitter, a popular social networking tool, to distribute information and voice their opinions. In the torrent of tweets from Iran, one voice stands out with its Persian prose and poetic [...]

In this short digital story, Kemal H. Karpat, a prominent historian, talks about Islam and media in America. Dr. Karpat is a professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin – Madison.

Today’s guest post is from Daily Beast blogger and author of How to Win A Cosmic War: God, Globalization, and the War on Terror Reza Aslan. If you’d like to learn more about his new book, see the interview posted today by Editor-and-Chief of  altmuslim Shahed Amanullah. Later this month, Dr. Aslan will return as [...]

In an earlier post here on Inside Islam, we discussed “Understanding Islam Through Virtual Worlds,” a documentary in the online world of Second Life. The term we used to describe the project — “digital Islam” — is actually a popular term. In fact, a research project under the same name follows similar developments more broadly. [...]

The podcast for the Young Muslims and New Media radio show is now up on this page. Subscribe to the Inside Islam radio series to hear our previous shows in the Inside Islam radio series and related programs produced by Here on Earth. This month’s topic is family and woman’s rights and the radio program will be on December 4th.

While gearing up for this Wednesday’s Inside Islam program: Young Muslims and New Media, I found myself thinking a lot about the question Colin Powell posed to Tom Brokaw on last Sunday’s Meet the Press. He said he was troubled by some members of the Republican Party who were helping to spread the rumor that [...]

Gümüş Stars: Songül Öden and Kıvanç Tatlıtuğ (Source)
The Turkish soap opera Gümüş, or Noor in English, is a pop culture phenomenon across the Arab world. Actress Songül Öden plays Noor, a young Muslim woman and fashion entrepreneur. The romantic relationship she has with Muhannad, her husband on the show, has won over a broad following [...]

Join Muslim writer and scholar of religion Reza Aslan and host of Here on Earth: Radio without Borders Jean Feraca for Inside Islam’s second radio show on October 29, 2008.

…On Inside Islam: The blog will have a series of posts about Muslims in the media leading up to the second radio show with Media commentator and scholar Reza Aslan.

“Obsession” dvd on radical Islam sent out to swing states in the US and debated online. Links to mainstream media coverage and advertisement of the DVD and reader reactions online. Suggest radio show topics on Muslims in the media.