Heba Amin is a young Egyptian artist whose work addresses the role of urban environment on human behavior.

Poet

Afiaa Alwazir is a photographer, activist, and blogger.

Akiedah Mohamed is a filmmaker and playwright from Cape Town, South Africa.

Alsarah is a Sudanese singer-songwriter.

Ameena Khan is an American mixed media fine artist.

Assia Djebar is an Algerian novelist and filmmaker who was also the first North African to be inducted into the Académie française.

Singer

Bayan Jondy is a fashion designer.

Brook Samad is a fashion designer.

Ebru Akpınar is a head chef at Günaydın, a chain of meat restaurants in Istanbul, Turkey.

Elinor Aisha Holland is an Islamic calligrapher.

Writer, poet and professor

Flora Brovina is a pediatrician, political and women’s activist, and poet from Kosovo.

Poet and Filmmaker

Hamra Abbas is a Pakistani multimedia artist.

Singer and Photographer

Actress and Lawyer

Iman Zawahry is an emerging film maker.

Lamia Yassini is an Algerian-born artist who specializes in charcoal and pencil drawings.

Painter

Lena Khan is an emerging filmmaker.

Liza Garza is an Emmy award nominated poet and vocalist.

Lubna Agha is a preeminent Pakistani modern artist working in alternate mediums.

Marwa Atik is a “haute hijab” fashion designer.

Singer

Mehraneh Atashi is a young photographer and artist from Iran. She has exhibited her work around the world.

Mohja Kahf is a Syrian-American poet and professor

Monica Ali is a Bangladeshi-British writer famous for her debut novel, Brick Lane.

Ms. Latifah is a spoken word and hip hop artist from Los Angeles.

Film actress

Muna Abu-Sulayman is a media personality and fashion designer.

Saudi Arabian Fashion Designer

Nadia Janjua is an artist and architectural designer in the Washington DC area.

Actress

Singer

Neelofer Mir is a Muslim rapper.

Singer

Nzinga Knight is an evening wear designer.

Pik is an Islamic artist.

Rohina Malik is a playwight and solo performance artist.

Saadia Yasmin (Khattak) is an artist and host of Global Rickshaw Radio in the Washington DC area.

Sadaf Syed is a photojournalist. 

Salma Arastu is an award-winning painter.

Samira Atash, an Afghan-American designer, helms two separate brands: SAMIRA ATASH and a maternity line dubbed, It’s a Miracle Contemporary Maternity.

Singer

Urban planner, environmentalist, writer and artist

Shahida Ahmed is a ceramic artist.