About Daliah Merzaban

Daliah Merzaban, a Canadian journalist, is currently a manager and editor in London, covering financial markets and economies in developing Europe, the Middle East and d Africa. Also passionate about creative writing, Daliah blogs on Islamic spirituality in modern life for her personal page, Dew Point.

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Countering Islamic Extremism With Radical Love: Book Review

While reading Omid Safi’s new book, Radical Love: Teachings from the Islamic... read more

When Prophets Come Alive

I recently accompanied my murshid on a spiritual retreat in Turkey, along... read more

Nurturing Intimacy During Ramadan

It’s well after midnight and burning candles flicker in my dimly lit... read more

My Journey From 'Moderate' Muslim to Seeker of...

For many years starting at around the time of the 9-11 terror... read more

Thanking Big

I’d just finished getting my hair cut and styled at the one... read more

Awakening the Sacred Feminine In All of Us

Huddled at the back, left-hand corner of a large hall, me and... read more

The Heart-Breaking Work of a Dervish

A section of the Wisconsin River winds through towering, 500 million-year-old rock... read more

Preventing Spiritual Flabbiness: The Benefits of Regular Fasting

Several years ago, one of the most-thoughtful readers of my blog commented... read more

Complex Trauma and Spiritual Healing Power of Sufism

Since I was a 13-year-old spending recesses in the schoolyard composing poems... read more

Translating Love's Confusion: Hollywood and Misreading Rumi

The 2010 Hollywood celebrity fest chick-flick Valentine's Day opens with Reed Bennett,... read more

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