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October 2012

October 18, 2012

The importance of romance

Reading Love, Inshallah inspired me to reflect on my own relationships, some of which I...

October 17, 2012

College life — debunked

It's the fall after my first year in college. Honestly, I don't know how I...

October 04, 2012

Confessions of a recovering sex addict

The note hanging above my desk reads: “Love is the answer.” I look at it...

September 2012

September 26, 2012

30 Years Together

Unlike the movies, making a life with another person is rarely a happily ever after....

September 20, 2012

3 Beautiful Things Thursday: My wife laughs in her sleep edition

Cross-posted from hijabman, who is, coincidentally, the husband of Love InshAllah writer Aida Rahim! 1....

September 19, 2012

Chasing life

“You need to dress sexier,” a friend in New York says, "Show some skin, go...

September 17, 2012

For better, for worse, couples who endure

Thea & Ron A new NYT weekly feature profiles marriages, civil unions and partnerships that...

September 13, 2012

Leaving an abusive marriage

Over the past 2 weeks, I’ve had a few conversations with folks who, upon hearing...

September 06, 2012

My Deadline Dilemma

My life is all about deadlines. As an up-and-coming journalist, I can’t function without a...

August 2012

August 16, 2012

Eighteen Dates in Ninety Minutes

On a cold New York night in a dimly lit dive in the Lower East...

August 09, 2012

Finding my spirituality

I didn’t mean to misplace my spirituality. I just lost it while searching for my...

August 02, 2012

Love is Doing

Omid and Roya Some women have dreams about their weddings. Some men dream about finding...

July 2012

July 31, 2012

When I fell in love with a Muslim

Torah A perspective on an interfaith relationship between a Jewish woman and Muslim man that...

July 30, 2012

Extraordinary Muslim women athletes

Ali’a Ahmed Madani, 20, weightlifter, Sudan In light of the 2012 Olympics, take a look...

July 25, 2012

Like a virgin

One of the most meaningful aspects of Islam for me was the rule about no...

July 22, 2012

Considering marriage

NYU's chaplain Imam Khalid Latif continues his Ramadan reflections this year at The Huffington Post....

July 18, 2012

Dreams of my Fatherhood

Nadeah and Yousef Go awwaAAYY! Go awwaaaAAYY! At 5:30 am the sunlight is faint, peeking...

July 10, 2012

On My Own

Image by Erik Madigan Heck A beautiful, painful and honest piece by Hafsa Arain at...

June 2012

June 26, 2012

Love in the time of cancer

Trauma impacts a person in ways they don’t really realize themselves until much later. Real...

June 13, 2012

3 Ways to Cultivate Real Love in Your Relationship

There is so much depth to real love, a web of different strands that all...

June 07, 2012

An honest man

Many moons ago, Love InshAllah co-editor Ayesha Mattu asked me to be an advance reader for...

May 2012

May 31, 2012

Real Talk

Last summer, after a long talk with a friend who'd been molested as a small...

May 30, 2012

Confessions of the Other Woman

“John Paul is dead.” The voice on the other end of the phone was John...

May 23, 2012

The Last Virgin

I'm going to die a virgin. Possibly. If I died tomorrow. Or maybe a couple...

May 17, 2012

Press PAUSE

Sometimes it’s hard to make sense of everything around you, until it all stops. That’s...

May 10, 2012

Just another Muslim couple

Walking down the street, you watch the stereotypical Muslim Arab couple as they pass by...

April 2012

April 26, 2012

A male perspective: Who I need to be – for you

Yusef & Samira I'm not a marriage counselor but it doesn't take much to see...

March 2012

March 29, 2012

Will Allah listen?

I am a thirty-something Pakistani Muslim girl living in Canada’s capital. I have never written...

March 13, 2012

Guest blog for us!

We'll be featuring guest posts from our contributors starting this week. We'd also love to...