... “I've worked in this industry for over 12 years and living in the US I see how the way women, specifically Muslim women, are being represented in the media directly affects how we are being treated and this sometimes causes Islamophobia,” she added.
Telling our story
Bayazid cited the importance of “telling our stories as a Muslim producer and filmmaker” and said she will be talking about the importance of telling the stories of Muslim characters. ...
“We did our project in New York just to share our Islamic culture," she said. "They loved it and they said 'we didn't know all this information because it's very informative.”
“For example, they thought that Islam is a religion of violence. They told us that before watching our VR experiences they thought that women are second-class citizens in Islam and they are controlled by men,” she said.
“It's one of the reasons to educate people and to tell them about our Islamic heritage and culture, to tell our own story and on our narrative,” said Bayazid. “Because we're not going let other people tell our story the way they want. It's our job to tell it the right way.”
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