Amani Al-Khatahtbeh

Amani Al-Khatahtbeh is an American author and tech entrepreneur. She is the founder and editor of MuslimGirl, an online magazine for Muslim women. Al-Khatahtbeh grew up in New Jersey. Her family temporarily relocated to Jordan in 2005 to escape Islamophobia. She founded MuslimGirl in 2009 when she was 17 and a senior in high school. With friends from her mosque, al-Khatahtbeh published blogs on the site. Following high school, she attended Rutgers University, graduating in 2014. She then worked for a non-profit based in Washington, D.C. before moving to New York and briefly working for a major media organization. In the beginning of 2015, MuslimGirl developed a volunteer staff and saw a large increase its readership. The site's traffic grew 90% and logged 100 million hits that yea