Founded in January 2010, Creative Muslims promotes Muslim inspired social good. We feature Muslim Americans who exemplify a positive image of Islam through their contributions to the community, the web, arts, multimedia, entrepreneurship, technology, and social media. We’re sharing how people, ideas, projects and communities are embracing the pillars of the Islamic faith to spread social good.
Founder Tubah Sultan
A self-taught web developer and no stranger to using popular web content publishing platforms such as Blogger, WordPress, Tumblr, and Joomla!, Tubah started Creative Muslims with the hopes of building a mainstream media network to connect the creative minds in the community and to promote a positive view of Islam. She is a recent graduate of the University of Maryland with a background in Accounting and Information Systems. Her involvement with the Muslim Students’ Association has been monumental in developing her interest in Islamic education, culture and the achievements of the Muslim American community. Tubah is an avid reader of several web development and social media news sites such as Smashing Magazine, Mashable, and tripwire Magazine.
Editor-in-Chief Anam Siddiqui
A junior English and Education double major at the University of Maryland, Anam hopes to impart on future generations the knowledge she is paying too much to gain right now. When she’s not trying to catch up on sleep, she loves reading and writing and reading and dark chocolate and good movies and reading. A Maryland native and an active member of the Muslims Students Association and Pakistani Students Association on campus, Anam joined the Creative Muslim team eager to reach out and inspire a new generation of creativity-driven Muslims. An avid writer and editor for many different school and organization-based publications over the years, she enjoys using her skills to showcase the amazing and growing talents of the Muslim ummah.
Social Media Director Hanifah Dasti
Hanifah Dasti is a third year undergraduate student at the University of Maryland. She is majoring in Economics and hopes to pursue her masters in Economics as well as Business Administration inshaAllah. She’s not much of a blogger; however, she loves the idea of using a blog as a means of spreading interesting, relevant and meaningful information across the web (like CreativeMuslims). She’s been apart of the CM team for a while, and loves it!
Senior Staff Writer Zulekha Sayyed
Baltimore, Maryland bred and based at the University of Maryland College Park, Zulekha Sayyed lives on the crossroad of rich cultural history, new world progress, and devotion to religion. As a Studio Art major, Zulekha hopes to inspire, educate, and tell the stories of silent voices through her future work in Art and Film Production. Another deep rooted goal is to impact our future by helping children on a global scale through Film, Art, and perhaps Art Therapy. Zulekha is highly involved in her MSA and has worked as a graphics director, videographer, intern for Leechon films, Senior Staff Writer for CreativeMuslims.com, and is currently working on several other projects.
Contributing Staff Nour Al-Muhtasib
Nour currently works as a research assistant at Georgetown University. She is assisting two doctors in studying nicotinic acetylcholine receptors, which are linked to nicotine (smoking) addiction. She graduated from the University of Maryland in Spring 2010 with a bachelors of science in biochemistry. At Maryland, she was an active member of the Muslim Students’ Association, Muslim Women of Maryland, Organization of Arab Students, and Students for Justice in Palestine. Nour is currently on the executive board of MIST (Muslim-Interscholastic Tournament). In her free time she likes to bake/cook and scrapbook. Blog: http://savoryedibles.blogspot.com/
Contributing Staff Fatima Husain
Born, bred, and raised right in the backyard of the Islamic Society of Baltimore, Fatima has been involved in numerous events that take place around the community. From volunteering at fundraising dinners, getting scolded at by parents while babysitting their kids at events, running around at SummerFests in the obnoxious heat, actively participating in the community’s youth group events, to being a student at Al-Rahmah school once upon a time, she has come to see it not as her second, but her first home. Fatima likes to read, and write, and bake, and write, and explore, and write. With Creative Muslims, she aims to help the up and coming generation become leaders for the Ummah, one baked chocolate chip cookie after another.
Contributing Staff Mehreen Masoud
Mehreen Masoud is a Special Education major and Hearing and Speech science minor at the University of Maryland. She is from central Jersey and her goal in life is to have people stop hating on New Jersey. In her (rare) free time, she enjoys knitting, reading, traveling, and taking part in community service groups like Ihya and Terps for Change.
Contact
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