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In stand-up comedy, silence typically equals death. You tell a joke and the audience laughs? Great. You tell a joke and they groan? Well, at least they were interested enough to respond. Tell a joke and … nothing? You may have lost the room altogether.  For Ramy Youssef, though, a joke greeted with silence allowed him to find his comedic voice, which has expanded beyond his stand-up to include creating and/or starring in a pair of acclaimed comedy series — Ramy on Hulu, Mo on Netflix — a juicy supporting role in…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeAnya Taylor-Joy has been criticised for a “problematic” outfit she wore to the Dune 2 premiere on Thursday (15 February).The Queen’s Gambit actor donned a white floor length gown with a hooded veil reminiscent of a Muslim burka and hijab (headscarf) in the Dior fit. Taylor-Joy confirmed her place in the cast of Denis Villeneuve’s sequel, starring Timothée Chalamet and Zendaya, as she…

City on Fire: A Boyhood in Aligarh is a memoir of love, home, and family. How has your understanding of home and belonging changed while writing this book?My understanding of the concept of home was destroyed and then remade. It was as if I was looking at myself, my family, my old house, even animals and trees around me with different eyes. I escaped into my own mind, but that was a bit comforting in those tragic times. PREMIUM Author Zeyad Masroor Khan (Courtesy the subject’s instagram account @zeyadmkhan) My…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Though domestic issues tend to motivate most U.S. voters, the war in the Middle East may be the dominant issue in mind for an increasingly important voting block: Middle Eastern and Muslim Americans. Since the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel, members of these communities have watched the rising death toll and…

A strong overnight earthquake rattled a mountainous region of northwestern China, authorities said Tuesday, destroying homes, leaving residents out in a below-freezing winter night and killing 127 people in the nation's deadliest quake in nine years.The magnitude 6.2 earthquake struck just before midnight on Monday, injuring more than 700 people, damaging roads and knocking out power and communication lines in Gansu and Qinghai provinces, officials and Chinese media reports said.WATCH | Aftermath of the earthquake: See…

Volkswagen may have been using forced Uyghur Muslim labour, who have been retrained and reeducated to be ideal Chinese citizens, at their factory in Xinjiang. Although auditors investigating the claim found no evidence, they were quick to throw their own investigation under the bus…

When the members of all-female Indonesian metal trio Voice of Baceprot finished middle school in their teens, they were at a crossroads. Their parents wanted them to fall in line: the pressure was on to enter an arranged marriage and live traditional lives. “It was really hard to just say no to our parents when they told us to get married,” the band’s singer/guitarist Marsya (full name Firda Marsya Kurnia) remembers today. “But we are happy because of music. It lets us be the real versions of ourselves. Heavy metal gave…

Ahmed Ali’s Twilight in Delhi (1940) was the first significant Muslim novel to be published in English. It’s about a family in old Delhi during the first two decades of the 20th century depicting a national, political and cultural decay and its impact on the lives of Indian Muslims. It was seeped in nostalgia — for the Mughal past of the city before the British, for Persian and Urdu poetry. A view of Old Delhi. (Sanchit Khanna/HT PHOTO) In the decades since, there have been only a handful of notable Delhi…

How do Quebec-born children in mixed families with one Muslim parent self-identify? How do they combine the different values transmitted by their parents and those of the society in which they grow up? These are some of the questions that led Josiane Le Gall, an assistant professor of anthropology at Université de Montréal, to conduct a qualitative study with colleagues in religion, social work, anthropology and…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain As Islamophobia spread in the United States after 9/11, so did the popularity of a subgenre of pornography that shows headscarf-wearing women engaging in sex. The videos are available on streaming platforms, where they draw millions of views. Martine Boulanger examined the phenomenon for her…