Amani al-Khatahtbeh: ‘It’s transformative to have Muslim women in the tech world’

The editor-in-chief of MuslimGirl.net, the leading online magazine for Muslim women in the US, talks about prejudice and being inspired by Batman

Amani al-Khatahtbeh started her website MuslimGirl.net - which has one million unique readers, and a roster of about 50 editors and writers - "with a $9 domain registration", in 2009, when she was a teenager in high school. She started publishing blogs on the site with friends from her mosque, inspired, Khatahtbeh says, "to push back against society's imposition of 'voicelessness' and 'docility' on young Muslim women".

MuslimGirl has published stories on gay imams, "how to cope with your period as a Muslim woman", and anti-black racism in the Muslim community - "taboo topics", Khatahtbeh says, that before MuslimGirl she was unable to find a source for online.