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May 2015

May 28, 2015

My Iranian Breakup

When I was invited to speak at a conference in Iran, I was asked...

May 26, 2015

Love Letter to Single Sisters

Dear Single Sisters, Lately, I’ve run into a lot of fabulous, beautiful single women who...

May 06, 2015

Guava Jam: Taste of my mother, taste of home

This month's Radical Love column is a video essay recorded live at Common Grounds in...

April 2015

April 30, 2015

Written in the Stars

Did you know that Love InshAllah and Muslimah Montage host a Twitter book club every...

April 01, 2015

Is my ex an FBI informant?

He was undoubtedly attractive – tall, lean and muscular, caramel colored skin, full lips, high...

March 2015

March 12, 2015

A Hate Crime Against the Universe

It was a rainy and cold night in Los Angeles. The rarity of the rain...

February 2015

February 26, 2015

Where the hell is my chivalry?

Eds. Note: Please welcome comedian, playwright and Love InshAllah anthology contributor Zahra Noorbakhsh! You can...

February 04, 2015

A Mosque of One’s Own

It wasn’t the first time I had heard a woman give the azaan. In our Ramadan...

January 2015

January 15, 2015

No Apologies Necessary

It was my first time meeting a new friend’s spouse. We’d just finished dinner at...

January 07, 2015

My Absurdly Attractive Doctor & Other Misadventures in Love

I’ve never been one to get along with conventionally attractive people – probably a residual...

December 2014

December 11, 2014

The View From Here

In seventeen years of marriage, my husband and I have lived in one foreign country...

December 03, 2014

Love in Protest

As my car crested the hill, I could see the skyline of downtown Los Angeles...

November 2014

November 13, 2014

A New Story to Tell

During my last year of college and my first year of marriage, my husband, Hadi,...

October 2014

October 08, 2014

The Single Girl’s Survival Guide for Desi Weddings

It was exactly five years to the day since the wedding I wrote about...

September 2014

September 02, 2014

Unmosqued

Poetry as dhikr. - Warsan Shire This past Ramadan I threw myself head over heels...

June 2014

June 03, 2014

Maghrib Memories

Three years just doesn’t have the same ring to it as one month, or one...

March 2014

March 12, 2014

The Ides of March

The Ides of March --(or how girl can write her way to a new life)...

March 05, 2014

On insurance companies, hollering toddlers, and reclaiming a Monday morning

My son loves running around in circles. I mean that literally. He’ll grab a favorite...

March 04, 2014

Love after death

I often wonder about love after death. After the bodies are buried, janazas are done, and...

February 2014

February 06, 2014

Interfaith Marriage on a String

“All is change with time / the future none can see / the road you...

February 05, 2014

Motherhood, Writing, and the Necessity of Vulnerability

Before I became a parent when mothers shared stories about their children’s first day of...

February 04, 2014

Love Is A Radical Tool

It was last summer, and I was sitting on a panel, with Asian American leaders...