MUSLIMS LIKE US | 21-22 FEBRUARY ON SBS

In a new SBS documentary, 10 Muslim Australians with vastly different views on their faith live under one roof for eight days to explore what it means to be a Muslim in modern, multicultural Australia.

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Everyday life

Welcome to the day to day life as a Muslim in Australia.

22 Feb 2018

My life as teenage niqabi: “For me the face veil represented a beautiful form of modesty and virtue”

Having embraced a more fundamental form of Islam as a teen, Aisha Novakovich, 32, has now stopped viewing the world in "black and white".
20 Feb 2018

Muslim Australian kids have it easier now than when I was growing up in the 1980s

How do you go from middle-class Sydney kid to wanting to be a soldier for Islam? Irfan Yusuf reflects on the dysphoria of growing up Muslim in the 1980's and why...
1 Feb 2018

The daily explaining that comes with being a Muslim woman in a post-9/11 world

Like any mother you want your child to grow up unburdened by the woes of your generation. Since 9/11, Muslim women have been asked to explain events over which...
2 Feb 2018

What it means to be a Muslim in modern Australia.

10 Australian Muslims live together for eight days in social experiment 'Muslims Like Us'. Over two nights - 8.30pm, 21 & 22 February on SBS
22 Feb 2018

What it means to be a 'Leb' in Australian culture

'The Lebs' author Michael Mohammed Ahmad wants to reclaim the narrative around Arab and Muslim men.

Challenging stereotypes

There are many ways to be Muslim.

2 Feb 2018

Opening up about my Islamic divorce

In a faith where dating and cohabitation before marriage aren't commonly accepted, what's it like to be a Muslim woman going through a divorce?
20 Feb 2018

“I worry that I’ll always be lonely": Life as a queer Muslim woman

"I feel invisible because I can’t express myself, how I feel, or who I love without needing to defend and explain myself. So, I just keep quiet and unseen."
20 Feb 2018

How 'Muslims Like Us' shines a light on the queer Muslim experience

The program brings together 10 Muslims from across the country to spend eight days living together in a conservative Sydney suburb.
18 Dec 2017

I didn’t expect to marry an Anglo Australian (and neither did my parents)

Amal Awad never imagined she would bring home a non-Muslim-but-soon-to-convert-Anglo guy to her parents. She further never envisaged the eventual acceptance of...