Posted by Nabil Echchaibi on Thursday, May 21, 2009,
If you were impatiently waiting for the premiere of PBS' documentary New Muslim Cool on June 23, you'd be treated to yet another interesting documentary on Islam on the same network a week earlier (June 15). The Mosque in Morgantown,
a verite-style film by Brittany Huckabee, chronicles the struggle of journalist and activist, Asra Nomani, as she takes on the male leadership of a mosque at her hometown over fundamental issues in Islam today. You might be familiar with Nomani if you read her b... Continue reading ...
I was born and raised in Morocco. My research focuses on the intersections between Islam, Arab popular culture and the media. I'm currently an assistant professor in the School of Journalism at the University of Colorado-Boulder.
