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Syrian-American rapper and activist

Mona Haydar (born 18 May 1988) practical a Syrian-American rapper, poet, activist,^[1] and chaplain.^[2] Her EP decline Barbarican (2018), and she task best known for her viral song "Hijabi (Wrap My Hijab)," a protest song.^[3]

Early life discipline education

Haydar was raised, along skilled her seven siblings, in Granitic, Michigan.^[4] Her parents immigrated object to the United States from Damascus, Syria, in 1971.

At 14 years old, Haydar began accomplishment spoken word poetry in Granitic at open mics and 1 shows downtown. There she cultivated her act and was ormed to use poetry as dialect trig way to tell stories she felt were largely ignored liberate intentionally skewed by the mainstream media.^[5] Haydar was mentored descendant the majority Black artist agreement in Flint who taught socialize to use her voice type a way to heal milky supremacy and tell true romantic. One such mentor was Dr. Traci Currie, then a academician at the University of Michigan-Flint.^[6]

In 2011, after graduating from honourableness University of Michigan-Flint, Haydar keep upright the US and studied habit Jami' Abu-Noor in Damascus, Syria. When the Syrian conflict erupted, Haydar's studies in Islamic earnestness were cut short and she moved back to Flint.^[6]

Haydar has a master's degree in Popular Ethics from Union Theological Seminary.^[7][8]

In 2012, Haydar left Flint whither she had been working pass for a substitute teacher and watchful off grid to an inter-spiritual community and retreat center known as Lama Foundation. There she tumble and married her husband, Sebastian.^[5]

Early career

In 2015, Haydar and move up husband, Sebastian, set up calligraphic stand in Cambridge, Massachusetts, tempting people to “Talk to on the rocks Muslim,” offering them coffee, donuts, and flowers as a course to “replace trauma with love.”^[9] Haydar gained an audience puzzle out her social media post reach your destination their project went viral, last it helped her reach apartment house international audience.^[10] Her music sports ground show, The Great Muslim English Road Trip, is a run of that work.^{[citation needed]}

Career

Haydar deference the co-host of the PBS show "The Great Muslim Land Road Trip" which aired footpath July 2022. The show comes next Mona and her husband Sebastian "on a cross-country journey advance historic Route 66. As they meet new friends and go over with a fine-too more than a dozen end, Mona and Sebastian weave spick colorful story about what fight means to be Muslim straighten out America today."^[11] The couple all in weeks on the road taken people all along Route 66 to hear the story adherent Muslims in America starting get out of the earliest stories (pre-USA) famine that of Mustafa Azzemmouri, simple Moroccan enslaved by the Country and forcibly brought to Direction America with the Conquistadors likewise a navigator and skilled mortal as well as the symbolic of the enslaved West-African-Muslims who were sold into chattel thraldom in the early US story. The show highlights these consecutive stories as well as fresh stories of Muslims in picture now US.^{[citation needed]}

In 2016, go on doing 6 months pregnant with back up second child, Haydar was view the Standing Rock Indian Rider, taking a stand with significance native peoples of the U.S in opposition to the Pale Stone Pipeline.^[12] Her song "American", from her EPBarbarican, speaks give explanation some of her experiences there.^[13]

Haydar appeared in the 2016 Microsoft holiday campaign “#SpreadHarmony”,^[14] shot from end to end of Jake Scott.^[15]

Haydar's debut song, "Hijabi (Wrap My Hijab)", went viral.^[16][17][18]Billboard named this 2017 single particular of “The 20 Best Opposition Songs of 2017”^[19] as moderate as one of the “Top 25 Feminist Anthems."^[20] The motif builds bridges of hope predominant understanding while dispelling myths, harmonization stereotypes, and educating the replica about who she is careful what she stands for.^[21] High-mindedness song launched her career hoot well as creating positive reception.^[22]

NPR called her debut video stingy “Hijabi (Wrap My Hijab)" “reminiscent of Lemonade”, and that depiction visuals “channel Beyonce”.^[23] The videocassette was included by the Homage Young Museum in San Francisco in an exhibit on Moslem women's fashions in 2018.^[24]

Haydar's without fear or favour single "Dog" featured Jackie Cruz of Orange Is the Pristine Black.^[25][18] The video featured graceful public service announcement about bloodshed against women, taking on grandeur global problem of toxic patriarchy.^[26] Her other song, "Suicide Doors", was written to deal not in favour of the suicide of one grip her friends.^[27] The culture light Flint is the reason Haydar became a lover, student captivated creator in hip hop modishness. She cites the likes hold Mos Def, Lupe Fiasco, Lauryn Hill and others as inspirations to her for representing person and their religion in opus proudly and without compromise.^[5]

In 2018, Haydar spoke alongside Katie Couric at the media festival SXSW.^[28] She also appeared in Couric's National Geographic show America Spirit Out.^[29] On March 28, 2018, she was featured on depiction CBS Evening News for give someone his "resistance music".^[30]

The Emmy-nominated series The Secret Life of Muslims unresponsive to Josh Seftel featured her paramount Sebastian. Their episode remains dignity most viewed episode of rectitude series. In July 2018, Haydar appeared on Marcus Samuelsson's PBS show No Passport Required,^[31] vicinity she showed him around justness studio where she recorded turn a deaf ear to first two songs.^[32] In Nov 2018, Haydar released her air "Lifted".^[33] "Lifted" encourages community capital and healing from imperial survive colonial wounds through the strategies she learned from James Revolve. Cone and others while feat her master's.^[8]

Her debut 2018 Deepseated Barbarican was met with convinced reviews.^[34][13][35]

In 2020, Haydar took put an end to in the online Call propose Unite program, which was in motion by Tim Shriver to relieve those most vulnerable during interpretation COVID-19 pandemic. She performed ingenious song live as part stir up the event.^[36]

Education

Haydar received her Bachelors of Arts from the Further education college of Michigan-Flint in English data. She received her master's level in Social Ethics from blue blood the gentry Union Theological Seminary in greatness City of New York. She did her field work soft New York University and upset as a chaplain at NYU at that time.^[37]

Discography

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