Project Duration: Ongoing
 
Start/End Date: Fall 2008 - Ongoing
 
 MOST Resource Center provides content creators in the Hollywood entertainment industry with experts, facts, research, storylines and characters concerning Muslims and Islam. In addition, MOST occa-sionally hosts events bringing together policy experts and  entertain-ment professionals. Finally, MOST will occasionally collaborate with appropriate partners. We are not proposing a specific project to the New Beginning conference, but we would be interested to hear plausible, well-funded suggestions that fall within the parameters of our mission. The acronym MOST stands for “Muslims on Screen and Television.”

Partnering Organization(s): MOST is a collaboration between the the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution and Unity Productions Foundation, in association with the Muslim West Facts Project and the Gallup Organization.
 
MOST Resource Center
USA
www.mostresource.org
info@mostresource.org
323-848-8823
Camille Alick

Project Mission: A  cross-cultural  resource  center  MOST  provides  valuable  resources  and  information  on  Islam  and  Muslims  for  the  US  entertainment  community.    It  meets  the  critical  need  for  increased  understanding  and  accurate  representation  on  both  sides  during  this  time  of  great  tension  and  mutual  suspicion  between  the  US  and  Muslim  World.
 
Project Objective(s): The MOST  Resource  Center  is  committed  to  delivering  improved  services  to  our  clientele,  including  working  meetings  with  writers,  producers  and  other  entertainment  professionals,  providing  them  access  to  information  and  experts  that  will  ultimately  result  in  realized,  well  informed  storylines.  Through  our  service-oriented  approach,  we  seek  to  position  MOST  as  a  leader  in  providing  the  mainstream  entertainment  community  with  useful,  accurate,  timely  information  on  topics  pertaining  to  Muslims  and  Islam.

Target group(s): MOST’s goal is to  provide  information  on  all  things  Muslim  and  Islamic  to  the  entertainment  community  including  writers,  producers,  and  show  runners.  
Geographical scope(s) of project: The U.S. and the Muslim World
 
One page summary: Attached
 
Achievements/progress to date:  Since MOST’s launch in late 2008 we have worked consistently with content producers in the entertainment industry and hosted a number of events for entertainment and policy professionals, sometimes in collaboration with entertainment guilds and/or consulates.
 
Contact person for the project:
Camille  Alick, calick@mostresource.org