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The Center for Global Muslim Life is an Americas-rooted nonprofit creating long-term narrative change through the arts, education, media production, community ecosystem building, and leadership training focused on social and spiritual impact.

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99 Cities of Global Muslim Impact Report Launching at GEM Summit in Doha

Read our Most Recent Report on the 25 Best Islamic Schools in the United States

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Nominations are open for the top 50 Global Muslim Startups 2026

In 2024 we mapped the Global Muslim Startup ecosystem at a new level featuring 100 companies and the 196 global investors who have made investments in these funds. For 2026 we are going back to our original format with only 50 companies selected to our list. Think you have what it takes to make it? Fill out our nomination form below.

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Connecting the Dispora of Hearts - Building the Center for Global Muslim Life

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Creating conversations across diverse Muslim communities working to build a more just, diverse, and sustainable future for all of humanity.

The Center for Global Muslim Life is a future focused think tank and cultural incubator that brings together a diverse set of researchers, cultural strategists, artists, technologists, community organizers, and policy makers from throughout the United States and from around the world working on key issues in global Muslim communities. The CGML is focused on the unique set of issues facing one of the largest and most diverse religious communities on this planet, while asking key questions about the role Muslims are playing in creating global social impact, diverse narratives, and unique contributions to the fabric of our rapidly changing world. 

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Building for our collective future

Dedicated to telling the whole story.

There is one story being told about Muslims who are mostly from one part of the world. We want to tell the big story, the complex global story, the story at the heart of the thing that mostly being ignored by mainstream media today. 

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