The courtyard of the Sultan Ahmed Mosque in Istanbul at dusk, its domes and minarets lit against a deep blue sky.
Muslimedia In the making

Travel · Culture · Lifestyle · Faith

Stories from across the Muslim world, told with care.

Muslimedia is a global media platform in the making. Through film, photography and writing, it will show the richness and diversity of Muslim life as it is lived today, in the places it is lived.

  • Film
  • Photography
  • Writing

Sultan Ahmed Mosque, Istanbul

01

Travel

Journeys to places worth knowing, and what it is like to be there.

02

Culture

Food, craft, history and the customs that make each community its own.

03

Lifestyle

How people live, work, celebrate and gather, city by city.

04

Faith

A shared faith, seen in the many ways it is lived around the world.

The world we will cover

From the Bosphorus to Borneo.

Muslim life is lived on every continent, in great cities and small towns, in deserts, on coasts and in the mountains. That is where the stories are.

A wall of blue and turquoise geometric tilework with a small latticed window, at the Sher-Dor Madrasa in Samarkand.
Samarkand, Uzbekistan
Looking straight up at the blue and gold tiled dome and arches of the Shah Mosque in Isfahan.
Isfahan, Iran
A white mosque with a blue patterned dome and four minarets, mirrored in still water, in Kota Kinabalu.
Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia
Shelves of brightly painted tajines and plates in a pottery shop in Morocco.
Morocco
Tiled mausoleums with turquoise domes under a clear sky at Shah-i-Zinda in Samarkand.
Shah-i-Zinda, Samarkand

In production

What we are making

Six kinds of story, made to be watched, looked at and read. Longer pieces will sit beside a steady run of shorter ones.

  • Travel documentaries

    Hosted journeys, filmed on location, with a full-length special each quarter.

  • Destination guides

    Where to go, what to see, and what it is like to be there as a Muslim traveller.

  • Photo essays

    Cities, landscapes and everyday life, through the eyes of photographers who know them.

  • People and interviews

    Conversations with remarkable people, in their own words.

  • Culture and features

    The stories behind the places: what was built, what is made, what is kept.

  • Writing

    Thoughtful articles that take their time and get the details right.

Loaded camels and their handler crossing rippled sand dunes in the Tunisian desert.

The flagship

Four journeys a year.

At the centre of Muslimedia will be a travel special each quarter: professionally produced, hosted on location, and given the time a place deserves. Between them, shorter films, photographs and articles will keep the stories coming.

  1. Q1January to March
  2. Q2April to June
  3. Q3July to September
  4. Q4October to December

Who it is for

For everyone.

For Muslim audiences, a place to see themselves and one another. For everyone else, a way in to the depth and variety of Muslim life around the world.

Who makes it

People who live there.

Our stories will come from a growing network of photographers, filmmakers, writers and local contributors, on the ground in the places they know best.

More soon.

Muslimedia is in development.

Photographs

The photographs on this page are by other photographers, shared on Wikimedia Commons and used here under their licences, resized and cropped.