Muslims News

During a speech at Variety’s Power of Women event, Malala Yousafzai called out Hollywood's lack of Muslim representation. Malala says that Asian people make up less than 4% of leads in Hollywood movies. The activist revealed that Muslims represent 25% of the population but only 1% of characters in popular TV series are Muslim. I know that the executives have passed on dozens of quality, equally amazing projects because they thought that the characters or their creators were too young, too Brown, too foreign, too poor, Malala Yousafzai. She recently launched her own production company called Extracurricular which is currently working on three projects for Apple. Malala’s production company is working with A24 on a documentary about the "haenyeo" society of fisherwomen who live on South Korea’s Jeju Island.