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New South writing

North Carolina writers

rape narratives

Salaam Love Writers

sexual assault survivor

Southern writers

women writers

2014-11-03T11:16:15-07:00

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Embracing life after a suicide attempt

Last updated on: November 3, 2014 at 11:16 am By Posted by The Editors

From the moment I was admitted to my first psychiatric ward, I was desperate to get out. I hated the smell, the food, most of the staff, the routines, the magazines. I hated the sagging mattresses, the glassless funhouse mirrors, the furniture, the isolation rooms. But as much as I despised the place, there was one saving grace for me there: the other patients. Many had absolute horror stories. Stories of abuse, self-mutilation, combat, rape, starvation. Stories that made this... Read more

Love InshAllah writers

2014-11-03T11:16:16-07:00

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A Man’s Chest

Last updated on: November 3, 2014 at 11:16 am By Posted by The Editors

A Man’s Chest How come no one ever writes about a man’s chest, that forested mountain and how we love its bluffs and jagged edges and the crags in it where a woman can hide and forget the city and be safe from every fanged and clawed creature? How come no one ever writes about a man’s belly that smooth river and how limpid are its waters running low, where a woman can wade barefoot like a Gypsy? (more…) Read more

Poetry Monday

american muslim poetry

American Muslim women

salaam

2014-11-03T11:16:16-07:00

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Beautiful

Last updated on: November 3, 2014 at 11:16 am By Posted by The Editors

Reflections & Readings

In the footsteps of the Prophet

2014-11-03T11:16:16-07:00

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Melody Moezzi’s Bipolar Life

Last updated on: November 3, 2014 at 11:16 am By Posted by The Editors

Love, Inshallah Author Interview: Melody Moezzi, Haldol to Hyacinths: A Bipolar Life Narrated and produced by Deonna Kelli Sayed DKS: In the 2011 anthology, Love, Inshallah: The Secret Love Lives of American Muslim Women, Melody Moezzi wrote about her struggle with chronic physical illness and how her husband provided love, support, and compassion. Melody’s latest book-length work, Haldol to Hyacinths: A Bipolar Life, is a deeply personal, often humorous memoir that explores her journey with Bipolar 1 Disorder and how... Read more

Book Reviews

Love Inshallah Podcast

bipolar 1 disorder

dating

family

love inshallah podcast

love stories

marriage

Melody Moezzi

muslim and mental illness

Muslim men

Muslim women

muslims and mental illness

personal stories of mental illness

women writers

2014-11-03T11:16:17-07:00

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Recite, in the name of thy Lord

Last updated on: November 3, 2014 at 11:16 am By Posted by The Editors

Bless the lips of women who recite the word of their Lord, and bless the ears of all who are comforted by the recitation. http://youtu.be/QJ05yNYmFrk For the first time, a woman, Usthadha Tahera Ahmad, Associate University Chaplain and Faculty Fellow at Northwestern University, opened the main hall session of the 50th Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) convention on Aug 30th, 2013 with recitation of the Holy Quran. Alhamdullilah. Read more

Friday Love

American Muslim women

2014-11-03T11:16:17-07:00

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Writing for Love

Last updated on: November 3, 2014 at 11:16 am By Posted by The Editors

When The Love, Inshallah call for submissions found its way into my email inbox, I had just finished the draft of a memoir inspired by strikingly similar ideas. I, too, believed in the power of love stories to challenge stereotypes about Muslim women. At the time, however, I was still fiercely committed to the advice of writing with the door closed. Digging through the memories that became my memoir had been emotionally if not physically volatile. I cringed and shook... Read more

Love InshAllah writers

American Muslim women

Salaam Love Writers

women writers

2014-11-03T11:16:17-07:00

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Something Borrowed, Something Hot Pink

Last updated on: November 3, 2014 at 11:16 am By Posted by The Editors

The first Muslim wedding I attended was my own. When I was twenty-seven and working in New York City, I connected with a fellow Georgetown Law grad. He had a first name I’d never heard before, a Mustang I hated, and an apartment near the Long Island Sound where he took me the first time I visited. Standing in front of the salty sea, I was filled with the overwhelming conviction that I wanted to stay. When we got engaged,... Read more

Literature

mental illness and relationships

intercultural marriage

2014-11-03T11:16:17-07:00

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Poem About Love, OCD-Style

Last updated on: November 3, 2014 at 11:16 am By Posted by The Editors

Love is poetic, rapturous, and inspiring. If you haven’t seen this wonderful poem from spoken-word artist, Neil Hilborn, this is the Friday to do it. He speaks candidly, heartbreakingly, about his Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and the woman who first loves him in spite of it, and then leaves him because of it. It is refreshing to hear a man reveal his vulnerability in his love for a woman. (more…) Read more

Friday Love

The Male Gaze

love and relationships

Love InshAllah

men and love

2014-11-03T11:16:18-07:00

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Is Passion in Love and Marriage…Real?

Last updated on: November 3, 2014 at 11:16 am By Posted by The Editors

Ten Considerations when Searching for the One “I’m afraid of getting married,” she told me. She, like the countless other women who had approached me, confessed what she thought was unique to her. “I’m constantly told by older married women that I should enjoy my life being single because marriage is a burden. I’ve never seen an example of a happy marriage. My married friends call me to complain about their husbands and ask me for advice. How am I... Read more