Muslim Women Are Everything: Seema Yasmin and Fahmida Azim

Dr. Seema Yasmin is an Emmy-Award winning journalist who was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She and Fahmida Azim, illustrator whose artwork appeared on NPR, Dallas News, and a number of books and graphic novels, coauthored Muslim Women Are Everything: Stereotype-Shattering Stories of Courage, Inspiration, and Adventure. They talk with Sara Jamshidi about what inspired them to publish the book.  

Muslim Women are intelligent, funny, and game changers

Muslim Women Are Everything, is a full-color illustrated collection of riveting, inspiring, and stereotype-shattering stories that reveal the beauty, diversity, and strength of Muslim women both past and present.

Amazon books:

Seema was tired of seeing Muslim women portrayed as weak, sheltered, and limited. With the help of her friend Fahmida, she reframed how the world sees Muslim women.

Featuring 40 full-color illustrations by illustrator Muslim Women Are Everything is a celebration of the ways in which past and present Muslim women from around the world are singing, dancing, reading, writing, laughing, experimenting, driving, and rocking their way into the history books.

Forget subservient, oppressed damsels—say hello to women who are breaking down barriers using their art, their voices, and their activism, including:

• Tesnim Sayar from Denmark, a Muslim goth-punk who wears a red tartan mohawk on top of her hijab
• American superstar singer SZA
• Nura Afia, CoverGirl’s first hijabi ambassador
• Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, America’s first Muslim congresswomen
• Ilyana Insyirah, a hijaab-wearing scuba-diving midwife from Australia

Showcasing women who defy categorization, Muslim Women Are Everything proves that to be Muslim and a woman is to be many things: strong, vulnerable, trans, disabled, funny, entrepreneurial, burqa or bikini clad, and so much more.

Dr. Seema Yasmin

is an Emmy-award winning journalist who was a finalist for the Pulitzer prize, medical doctor, professor, and poet. She attended medical school at Cambridge University and worked as a disease detective for the U.S. federal government’s Epidemic Intelligence Service. She currently teaches storytelling at Stanford University School of Medicine, and is a regular contributor to CNN, SELF Magazine, and Scientific American, among others.

   Fahmida Azim

is an illustrator, graphic designer, storyteller, and tea-drinker, whose artwork centers around themes of identity, culture, and personal autonomy. She currently works as a designer and illustrator in Seattle. Today, her art can be seen on NPR, in the Dallas News, in a number of books and graphic novels in development, and more. Visit Fahmida-Azim.com for a full portfolio of work.

Interview with  Seema Yasmin and Fahmida Azim for Peacemindedly Podcast

YouTube Raw Footage of Conversation between Seema Yasmin, Fahmida Amim with Sara Jamshidi for Peacemindedly Podcast

Please Consider to Pledge to Our Independent Peace Journalism.

Thank you.

Goltune is editorially independent, meaning we set our own agenda. No one edits our editors. No one steers our opinion. This is important as it enables us to stay true to our values.

We practice peace journalism: to cover stories, feature individuals and profile organizations that base their practice according to peace initiatives.

Every contribution we receive from readers like you, big or small, goes directly into funding our journalism. Please support Goltune, large or small. Thank you.

Thanks for helping us to fund our Peace Journalism. Here is our Square account: “Please help us to fund our peace Journalism.”

Send your contributions to our PayPal account: editor@goltune.com
Or, contact us and let us know what we can do to deserve your support.