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2015-04-01T12:58:10-07:00

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Is my ex an FBI informant?

Last updated on: April 1, 2015 at 12:58 pm By Love InshAllah Columnist

He was undoubtedly attractive – tall, lean and muscular, caramel colored skin, full lips, high cheekbones that framed his deeply intense hazel eyes. But his black leather jacket, felt fedora, acoustic guitar swung over his shoulder and beatnik poetry journal in his back pocket were really the accessories that put me over the edge. He had a very expressive face but there were two expressions that stuck out the most – an affable, goofy grin, and the furrowed brow intensity... Read more

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Radical Love

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2015-03-23T22:47:04-07:00

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Integrity of Heart, Peace of Soul: Finding My Path as an Asexual Muslim

Last updated on: March 23, 2015 at 10:47 pm By Guest Contributor

I’m not able to be a “good Muslim wife”. In fact, I’m not able to be in a conventional marriage at all. I’m asexual, aromantic, and sex-averse. Asexuality is a sexual orientation characterized by experiencing little or no sexual attraction to any person1. Aromanticism means that I do not experience romantic attraction, or falling in love, to any person either. As for the sex aversion, that’s what ultimately makes marriage out of the question for me. While not all asexual... Read more

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2015-03-24T21:51:00-07:00

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Mothering in the Shadows

Last updated on: March 24, 2015 at 9:51 pm By Love InshAllah Columnist

Editor’s Note: Please welcome our newest writer Ambata Kazi-Nance whose monthly column Not Without Love will appear the fourth Wednesday of every month! It’s late at night, or maybe the wee hours of the morning before dawn. It’s quiet, the kind of quiet where you can hear the breathing patterns of everyone in the house and the creaks in walls and ceilings like invisible footsteps. Soft, yellow light glows like a halo around my crib. I am crying. I can’t... Read more

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2015-03-24T21:52:13-07:00

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Love has no respect for questionnaires

Last updated on: March 24, 2015 at 9:52 pm By Love InshAllah Columnist

I’ve never been in love but I’m pretty sure finding my perfect match will not be as easy as filling in a compatibility questionnaire. Still, I went ahead and filled in my answers to Don Tillman’s questions at the end of the novel The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion. You know, just for fun. It consisted of 24 questions and, according to Don, should have taken me no longer than 7 minutes and 9 seconds. Unless I didn’t understand a question,... Read more

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Your Sunny Side Up

2015-03-17T19:00:27-07:00

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Fairytale Beginnings

Last updated on: March 17, 2015 at 7:00 pm By Love InshAllah Columnist

Tiny Love Story “And what do you do?” so many have asked. “I tell stories,” the girl said. One by one they’ve walked away, not understanding the language she speaks. Until one day… “I tell stories,” said she. “Then you are brave,” said he, “and you should keep telling them. I want to hear them all.” The End. Like a conjurer, I have dozens of stories like this up my sleeve. They come to me at inopportune moments, waking me... Read more

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2015-03-11T21:03:14-07:00

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A Hate Crime Against the Universe

Last updated on: March 11, 2015 at 9:03 pm By Love InshAllah Columnist

It was a rainy and cold night in Los Angeles. The rarity of the rain added a sheen of intrigue as I drove up the 101 freeway through downtown. I glanced at the overpasses above, nearing the place where I’d been told the signs would be. Sure enough, there they were – jankier than I expected, but still expressing their intended hatred. In black pixelated letters one sign said No, and the other featured the image of a crescent and moon. I took the... Read more

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the personal is political

2015-03-11T11:30:16-07:00

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Daughters Need Their Fathers Too

Last updated on: March 11, 2015 at 11:30 am By Guest Contributor

It was a Friday evening, that magical time for children and adults. Briefcases were put away, book bags tossed into a corner to be forgotten until Sunday night, and healthy, well-balanced meals replaced with feel-good foods of questionable nutritious value. And, of course, there was dessert. My father always had a sweet tooth, something I inherited from him, and Fridays meant the promise of a sweet treat. This particular Friday it was a package of fudge-striped cookies, my favorite. The... Read more

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2015-03-04T02:30:06-07:00

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Step One

Last updated on: March 4, 2015 at 2:30 am By Love InshAllah Columnist

I am the kind of woman who looks at love from every angle. Who writes about it, puts it in her mouth, holds it up to her nose and rolls it in her hands. I can tell you the way that parted lips feel against bare skin, or the way that the moon reaches out of the sky and highlights your breath as it leaves your mouth in the middle of the night in the middle of February. I can... Read more

Brown Girl Dreaming

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2015-02-26T10:29:51-07:00

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Where the hell is my chivalry?

Last updated on: February 26, 2015 at 10:29 am By Love InshAllah Columnist

Eds. Note: Please welcome comedian, playwright and Love InshAllah anthology contributor Zahra Noorbakhsh! You can find her column, My Infidel Husband, here every fourth Thursday of the month. On my 26th birthday, I shot awake with the realization that I was in my mother’s relationship. My then boyfriend (now husband), Duncan, and I had just moved in together, shortly after celebrating our two-year anniversary. In all this time, he had never bought me a present. I looked over at him... Read more

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2015-02-25T00:05:42-07:00

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Speaking My Language

Last updated on: February 25, 2015 at 12:05 am By Guest Contributor

“Turn me into droplets of rain so I sprinkle upon your pretty face,  Then coat me with dreariness as I wander alone…” – Qarar On the two-hour drive to my parents’ home, I crooned along to one of my favorite Pashto songs, Qarar. I felt the sweetness of the words fill me: the longing and the love of a man for his lover. Turning to my husband as he drove, I swung my hands dramatically towards him, continuing to... Read more

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