Hip Hop Hijabis

Two Muslim converts promoting women's rights through music… and finding their own voices on the way. A documentary film about 'Poetic Pilgrimage'.

Cast

Sukina Abdul Noor

as Sukina Abdul Noor

Muneera Rashida

as Muneera Rashida

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