‘My identity would always be around being a Muslim’View this post on Instagram A post shared by Iman Zawahry (@imanzawahry)Egyptian-American Iman Zawahry is one of the first Muslim-American filmmakers in the US to give a voice to her community. My identity first has always been American Muslim and not Arab-American or Egyptian-American. “Americanish is created to show that Muslim-American women are not a monolith and we are American and not foreign. The story is based off her creative partner Aizzah Fatima’s play called ‘Dirty Paki Lingerie’, which shows how a new generation of Muslim women are experiencing the intersection of tradition and modernity as Muslim women. Sparking a collaboration between Zawahry and Fatima that went on for eight years to make the film, Zawahry notes that this is the first romantic comedy made by diverse Muslim-American women about Muslim-American women, and also starring Muslim-American women.