Hey friends! Check out my short film from high school in the POV on PBS PBS online film festival! If you like it please vote for it! pbs.org/filmfestival/2…

Proud of our Muslim Youth Voices participant afrohijab getting her short in competition PBS Online Film Festival! Watch and vote for it! pbs.org/filmfestival/2…

With 25 amazing films and only 5 days left, what are you waiting for? Grab a snack & start streaming the #PBSFilmFest. And don't forget to vote for your favorite film(s)! #BlackMuslimWoman to.pbs.org/2t7iW5o

My new short doc THE DISPOSSESSED, which I shot in Kashmir, will be at Sundance this year!

6 U.S. cities, 30+ films, the many voices of Muslim Youth... explore a mosaic of stories from young men and women starting 12/10 as part of the digital-exclusive #MuslimYouthVoices CAAM Doris Duke Foundation Musa Syeed youtu.be/xOv4nX7udGw

"Poetry and Community" and Sisco. Faisal Mohamud chronicles this young spoken word poet who is giving back to his own Minneapolis neighborhood... Watch this film and more from the #MuslimYouthVoices project - worldchannel.org/show/muslim-yo… CAAM Doris Duke Foundation Musa Syeed

My film premieres Sundance Film Festival later today, but you can watch now via The New York Times Op-Docs & read my director statement abt my family's tradition of faith healing nytimes.com/2019/01/25/opi…

As I filmed Mr. Hazari, I initially wanted to know after each treatment: exorcism or placebo? But as I watched patients eager to feel the healing in his breath, his hand, his dull knife, I bit my tongue. nyti.ms/2DFeMHq

Mikel Aki'lah Jones (mikel) opens up about facing discrimination within her religious community, and how it catalyzed the creation of her short film, "Black Muslim Woman." Hear from Mikel here → trib.al/3t58ejp #IWD2019

Thanks SFFILM & Westridge Foundation for including me!

Big thanks to SFFILM & Westridge Found for supporting my new film!

Please join us for our first event in a new lecture series hosted by Creative Writing Faculty in the Harvard English Department inviting Writers to discuss their work. Speakers: Musa Syeed & Michael Pollan 11/19 at 6PM Free and open to the public

Tomorrow I'm doing a reading/screening with my esteemed colleague Michael Pollan! If you're in Boston, please join us!

Our new edited volume, Muslims in the Movies: A Global Anthology (out mid-2021, mizanproject Harvard University Press), now has a webpage & beautiful cover Thanks so much to Musa Syeed for allowing me to use an image from his wonderful film Valley of Saints hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?is…

With help from an all-star panel of judges (including Zarqa Nawaz , Musa Syeed, Haroon, & د. نايف المطوع Dr. Naif Al-Mutawa) we selected the best submissions which you can check out here. Please share and let us know your own favorites! hamzanama.org/thanks