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November 2013

November 27, 2013

Towards a More Perfect Ummah

Eds. Note: This is a response to last week’s guest post, How I met my son’s...

November 26, 2013

Why we have to talk about what hurts

Eds. Note: This is a response to last week’s guest post, How I met my son’s...

November 26, 2013

How I Met My Granddaughter’s Father

Eds. Note: This is a response from AltMuslimah to last week’s guest post, How I met...

November 25, 2013

Choices

Eds. Note: This is a response to last week’s guest post, How I met my son’s...

November 23, 2013

Reflections of a “good” girl

Eds. Note: This is a response to Thursday's guest post, How I met my son’s mother....

November 22, 2013

My problem with traditional desi marriage

Eds. Note: This is a response to yesterday’s guest post, How I met my son’s mother....

November 21, 2013

How I Met My Son’s Mother

Eds. Note 11/22/13: We are strongly committed to airing a diversity of perspectives to undermine the...

November 20, 2013

Love Thyself (Inshallah)

Bookstores are my turf. They’re my territory, where I live and breathe. I’m intimately familiar...

November 18, 2013

broken

What is a poet when he runs out of poetry it is a man who...

November 14, 2013

Divorced Ramblings

I am twenty-two-years old. I am a rebellious daughter, a fierce writer, a determined feminist,...

November 13, 2013

Ghosts, Magic and Love

I left my twelve-year marriage two years ago this week. The decision was a long...

November 12, 2013

Tiny little red lights leading the way to my heart

Eds. Note: Yasmine Khan shared her unfolding love story in the Love InshAllah anthology. Here,...

November 07, 2013

The Paths To My Heart

I am not sure why I have not written in a long time. I try...

November 06, 2013

The ABC’s of parenting little ones

Always show your love. Even when you are upset. Especially if you are upset. No...

November 05, 2013

The Legacy of Zines

Eds. note: Please welcome activist, storyteller, politico and Love InshAllah anthology contributor Tanzila "Taz" Ahmed...

November 04, 2013

Beat of Heart

Beat of Heart A new dawn is a new day a new chance The world,...

October 2013

October 31, 2013

I am a monster

Watch these four awesome young women demolish female stereotypes, particularly those associated with Halloween.

October 31, 2013

Love in the Time of Aerograms

Years after India gained independence from Great Britain in 1947, the eastern portion of the...

October 19, 2013

The False Phoenix

Love, Inshallah's fiction debut! The False Phoenix Not a drop of rain had fallen in...

October 17, 2013

Nurturing A Soul

Lately I’ve been thinking about the business of babies, since I found out two friends...

October 16, 2013

Finding Love in Cape Town

My roommate and I sat side by side on our couch, hunched over our respective...

October 10, 2013

Fervently Fantastic

Our parents named us after Islamic figures in hopes that we would grow up to...

October 07, 2013

Canyon Girl

Canyon Girl “Somethin’ in me’s crossed over.” Thelma, Thelma and Louise Come to the cliffside...

October 02, 2013

Five Reasons Why You Need To Follow The Dream Of Writing Now. With GIFs

Many of us love to write and aspire to cultivate our thoughts through the written...

September 2013

September 26, 2013

What’s Love Got To Do With It?

I am estranged from my father, and no, I don’t like talking about it. Why...

September 24, 2013

Turning Thirty

I have been playing the role of two different people in one body for more...

September 19, 2013

A Note To My Son

I never said thank you for that time you put your hand on my back...

September 17, 2013

Back to the Rooftop

As much as it annoyed my family and my then-estranged husband, I refused to find...

September 13, 2013

A New Story of People

How do we change the world? We change the story. Check out this beautiful video...

September 10, 2013

Embracing life after a suicide attempt

From the moment I was admitted to my first psychiatric ward, I was desperate to...