Amani Al-Khatahtbeh
Amani Al-Khatahtbeh wasn’t always proud of who she was. Or, she felt like she couldn’t be.
The 24-year-old founder of MuslimGirl, a media site for Muslim millennials run out of Williamsburg that we profiled last spring, shared her coming-of-age journey at the Forbes Under 30 Summit in Boston yesterday.
Struggling with her identity and a post-9/11 climate, Al-Khatahtbeh felt alienated as a young Muslim girl, saying how she once lied about her religion in the fourth grade because she felt vulnerable and scared due to the different headlines by media organizations with problematic portrayals of Muslim women and Muslims in general.
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