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The Muslim American Journalists Association welcomes its first Board of Directors, leadership selected through a membership nomination process. It is our goal to transform MAJA into an organization that meets the needs of Muslim American journalists in an evolving media landscape. With a multitude of talents and hailing from different backgrounds, the new board is excited to get started. Without further ado...
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Shabina S. Khatri founded MAJA in May of 2004, after graduating from the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor with degrees in business and Spanish. She has worked for the Wall Street Journal and the Detroit Free Press. She currently lives in Doha, Qatar and has been freelancing for various news outlets, including Al Jazeera English.
Omar Chatriwala is a multimedia journalist who graduated from the University of Texas - Austin. He previously worked on a web-geared magazine for the Orange Country Register, writing, editing and blogging, while simultaneously launching MAJA's website. He moved to the Gulf in 2006 in time for the launch of Al Jazeera English, where he works as a web journalist.
Aman Ali is a newspaper reporter based out of New York City. He works for Gannett, the nation's largest newspaper chain and has previously worked as a Capitol Hill reporter in Washington DC. Ali was born and raised in Ohio and went to journalism school at Kent State University. He also works professionally as a standup comic.
Mariam Jukaku became interested in journalism while at the University of California - Los Angeles. Jukaku graduated with a degree in computer science, but also worked for a large Muslim student newsmagazine called Al-Talib. She went on to get her master's in journalism from the Newhouse School at Syracuse University and recently worked as a beat reporter at the Star-Ledger in New Jersey.
Mariam Sobh is a Chicago-based broadcast journalist who has worked in both commercial and public radio over the last 8 years. She currently runs her own website, 