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The Center for Global Muslim Life (CGML) is a future focused research center and cultural incubator for cutting edge conversations across diverse Muslim communities.
11/29/2025
Today is the day! Join us as we soft relaunch the Global Muslim Film Festival in Bellevue with a beautiful set of films including Somos Musalmanes & Harar the Forgotten Community from doc on their work leading people on walking trips on the Prophetic path of migration from Mecca to Medina. new film $17.74 and The Mountain & Flower a Sufistic film shot on 16mm film from the founders of We will also be playing a clip from Imam Jamil Al Amin (H. Rap Brown) who passed away this week after 20 years being locked up in the US carceral system
11/29/2025
Wait free food & free global Muslim film? We love to feed the community and we are so excited to work with to serve free Lamb Harisa for the first 45 people. See you all tomorrow in Bellevue for the Ummah Arts Film & Food festival. This is just a test run for something bigger in the summer inshallah come through from 2pm to 6pm Saturday 11/29
11/26/2025
Join us this weekend in Bellevue and get your first look at the designs for the Pacific Northwest Prayer Rug project at the Ummah Arts festival. We will have free, delicious lamb harira soup from our friends at for the first 40 people. The schedule is as follows: 2pm - 2:45pm - PNW Prayer Rug Workshop
2:45pm - 3:45pm - Somos Musalmanes about Islam in Mexico
3:45pm - 4:15pm - Community Discussion
4:15 - 4:45pm, - Short Films - $17.74 by Justin Mashouf & Retracing the Prophetic Footsteps
4:45 - 5:00pm - Maghrib Prayer
5:00pm - 6:00pm - Harar the Forgotten Community.
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11/21/2025
Join us for the Ummah Arts Film Festival Saturday the 29th in Bellevue at the Crossroads Community Center. We will be featuring films from the Global Muslim Film Festival and youth art programming. The schedule is as follows -
2pm - PNW Youth Prayer Rug Workshop 2:30pm - Somos Musulmanes about Islam in Mexico 🇲🇽 3:30 short films including new film $17.74 and at 4:30 new film about the indigenous Muslim community in Harar, Ethiopia 🇪🇹 - Harar the Forgotten Community
11/12/2025
Free for Students, Artists & Community Organizers
Registration link on bio
As our world has been transformed by artificial intelligence over the last two years, digital media producers have been thrust into the center of every organization. The challenge is that most community-based organizations, schools, and nonprofits were not prepared for this shift and often lack the expertise to adapt in impactful ways. The first version of this course was launched in 2020, with more than 200 participants and 15 institutions around the world taking the course. Now is the time to update the course for a new set of digital media producers, as well as youth interested in exploring careers in media production. This year we will be meeting on Wednesdays at 6:00pm PST for all ages, starting November 19th. We welcome youth ages 6th grade and up, artists, and nonprofit institutions. We will meet online, and in person at Medina Academy’s Redmond campus.
10/28/2025
As an Indigenous Muslim woman of the Purépecha and Wixárika communities, I hold deep respect for the spiritual traditions that have shaped our people for generations. For many Mexican Muslims, Día de los Mu***os can bring questions about faith and practice—but understanding its true roots reveals that this time is not about worshiping the dead. It is about remembrance, gratitude, and connection to the Creator through the love we continue to hold for those who have passed.
10/14/2025
Happy Indigenous Peoples Day from our family to yours
09/22/2025
As Salaam Alaykum Mitákuye Oyás’iŋ* (Peace be upon you all my relatives) *Arabic & Lakota
Mitákuye Oyás’iŋ (Lakota), Indinawemaaganidag (Ojibwe), ʔə tiʔəʔ syaʔyaʔ (Lushootseed) that all of existence is interrelated, is a core idea within indigenous cosmologies of the Americas. For Muslims, this interrelation has to do with the divine essence, the breath that gave life to all of creation, what we would call نَفَس الرَّحْمٰن, the Breath of the All-Merciful. This Interrelation is at the core of the Pacific Northwest prayer rug project as we attempt to explore Muslim life in the Pacific Northwest while also paying respect to whose land this is, with nearly 250 distinct tribal nations and First Nations peoples, who are the stewards of their ancestral homelands.
The PNW Prayer Rug Project, led by the Center for Global Muslim Life, is a cultural heritage and narrative-change initiative that reimagines the prayer rug as a living artifact of migration, sacredness, and belonging. It brings together Muslim and Indigenous artists, designers, and community members to co-create regionally rooted prayer rugs and matching baby blankets that reflect the stories, identities, and ancestral ties of Muslim communities across Washington State, the state of Oregon, and the Province of British Columbia, what is also known as the Cascadia corridor. For more info on the design competition visit - GlobalMuslimLife.com/PrayerRugProject
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The Center for Global Muslim Life (CGML) is a future focused research center and cultural incubator creating cutting edge conversations across diverse Muslim communities. The Center for Global Muslim Life builds connections between a diverse set of researchers, cultural strategists, artists, technologists, community organizers, and policy makers from throughout the United States and from around the world working on key issues in global Muslim communities. The CGML is focused on the unique set of issues facing the worlds largest and most diverse religious community on this planet while asking key questions about the role Muslims are playing in creating global social impact, diverse narratives, and unique contributions to the fabric of our rapidly changing world.
In 2018 Dustin Craun was living in Kuala Lumpur, and started reflecting with a group of interlocutors on how little we actually know about the diversity of Muslim life around the world. We know about our crises, the wars, and Islamophobia but what do we know about the leaders in our community building the collective future of the world’s largest and most diverse faith? What do we know about Muslims making a social and spiritual impact around our world? What do we know about diverse narratives about Muslims being produced around the world? The diverse startups growing around the world to serve Muslim communities?
We asked the question, what would it look like to create a center that is future oriented and that creates space for cultural producers? What would it look like to create something visionary and move away from the constant reactionary thinking that our community has been stuck in for the last twenty years?
Today global Muslim communities are known primarily through the singular narrative produced through media and cultural production, of terrorism, war, Islamophobia, and the global refugee crisis with media and academic institutions focusing on Arab Muslims who make up only 15-20% of global Muslim populations. Nearly 70% of the worlds Muslims live in Asia and Africa yet in terms of popular representation the uniquely diverse Muslim populations across the world have very little representation. Muslims are unique as a multi- civilizational community with large diasporas of peoples all around the world. With large populations in Southeast Asia, South Asia, throughout north, east, and west Africa, with large populations across the middle east and eastern Europe, and with large minority populations in Europe, the Americas, and East Asia.
Over the next 50 years, our world will see unprecedented change with more than 70% of humanity is expected to live in urban areas, as global power will continue to shift to Asia. Technology will play an ever increasing role in our daily lives and climate change will impact our world in ways that we cannot fully predict. The landscape of religious communities will also change rapidly over the coming half-century as global Muslim populations will grow from an expected population of 2 billion in 2020 to over 3 billion people by 2070, making Islam the largest religion in the world for the first time. Muslims have created unique global networks that despite great differences across communities, have historically shown strong solidarities most explicitly represented in the life and legacy of Malcolm X’s global vision of Islam, what Sohail Daulatzai calls the “Muslim International.” This international collective of global Muslim life is a call to global solidarity amongst Muslims and with peoples throughout the world who face similar forms of oppression. As Daulatzai clearly states,
“Malcolm forced and compelled the Muslim International to be a broad and inclusive space that understands the overlapping histories and interconnected struggles that not only shaped the modern world but that also shaped the conscience of the Muslim International as a site for radical justice and equality.”
Today Muslim communities face oppression and are building resistance both within Muslim majority countries, as well as throughout the US, Europe, and Australia. This reality of overlapping countries where Muslims make up large minority diasporic populations and global spaces of social impact, political, and artistic resistance is an emerging reality, that has been grossly understudied within the Muslim community or academic studies at large. Islamic studies departments in Western academia have never fully distanced themselves from their colonial roots within area studies and have primarily focused on lands that US and European military power were interested in.
As we launch in 2020 we are focused on a unique set of research on emergency response research to the global COVID-19 crisis, research focused on Muslim wellness, the 2020 election in the United States, emerging narrative infrastructure within Muslim communities.
The Center for Global Muslim Life is tasked with conducting key research on these issues as well as create convening's for academics, community leaders and the media. We must take our narratives into our own hands to more fully understand these issues beyond the current scope of Muslims seen only in the light of terrorism and Islamophobia. Below is an outline of the core issues we will focus on in the coming years as we build out the Center for Global Muslim Life.
