All-female lineup of presenters hope to break harmful Islamic stereotypes after Geert Wilders’ election victory
n hour before dawn in a nondescript building in Hilversum, a sleepy town half an hour south of Amsterdam, Nora Akachar grabs the microphone. There is nothing unique about a radio host summoning the nation out of its slumber. But this is, in her own words, “a big deal”.
Akachar’s voice reaches into cars and homes across the Netherlands, “for anyone who is awake, going to work, or eating suhoor,The show’s all-female lineup is Akachar’s rebuke to long held stereotypes about Muslim women: “We have agency and we’re rewriting stories our way.
The theatre actor and movie producer is all too familiar with the longstanding demonisation of immigrant families living in the Netherlands. Born in Morocco, she said it was hard to ignore perpetual stigmatisation of Muslims in the media landscape, one that shapes them as “predators or criminals” on screens. She starred in the successful Dutch television series Mocro Maffia,It is an image that Akachar hopes to change, which is where the radio show comes in.
Akacher is producing a documentary, to be aired this summer, showcasing the lives of queer Muslims to fight the perception that Muslims are intolerant of LGBTQ+ people.
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