Muslima website.

My Thesis project website is up, click here to go there, or just type in: www.MuslimTale.com

*** p.s. this is more of a summary that explains my thesis project ***

Religious Stereotypes.

This book was the reason I chose to delve deeper into the issue of negative religious stereotypes and ways to solve them. It actually is my one of my favorite books I wrote so far. The book is one hundred and fifteen pages.

(To read just click on the image and flip through)

***Umbrella people illustrations by Jon Turner***

Tease you.

I will be posting my thesis project soon, meanwhile here are my teaser ads...

Muslim.

For those of you aren't familiar with who I am. 

Here's a brief intro to who Lama, aka Lema is.

Place of Birth: United Arab Emirates

Raised in: Jordan

Country of Origin: Palestine 

Current City of Residence: San Francisco

Favorite Season: Winter

Loves: Paper 

Hates: Liars

Religion: Islam

So here's why I'm telling you all this...

Since moving to the U.S. I have felt a lot of questioning, 

confusion and misunderstanding from some people, first 

was because I was raised in the Middle East, and second 

was because, to some, I belonged to a so-called terrorist 

religion, aka Islam.

This made me feel uncomfortable and at unease. 

So, instead of smiling and nodding, I'm doing something about it...

I'm currently working on my MFA thesis project, and it's 

an educational program, targeting the younger generation.

I'm working with a beautiful team of artists I hand-picked myself.

They, and the final project will be revealed later in May, 2011.

The title of my project is: 

Amal, A Muslim Tale of Hope.

(Amal is translation for Hope, and it's also my name, 
Lama, written backwards)

***Calligraphy done by my friend Wael Omari***

Thesis timeline.

I'm pushing to graduate by December, my thesis topic is still in it's fetus phase, I'm picking names for my lets call it "baby".

*A brief on my thesis topic: It will basically be an educational campaign, teaching little girls residing in the United States on the people of Islam, women in specific, not necessarily Arab; to try and eliminate negative stereotypes and judgements for the future.

Here's a map of the stages of development for this baby.