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2015-01-07T00:27:53-07:00

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Winners of the Eleventh Annual Brass Crescent Awards

Last updated on: January 7, 2015 at 12:27 am By Posted by The Editors

Thank you to our readers for voting us 1st and 2nd in our respective nominated categories of Best Female Blogger and Best Blog! Congratulations to all the nominees and winners! Check them out for some wonderful reads. Read more

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2015-01-07T19:24:17-07:00

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My Absurdly Attractive Doctor & Other Misadventures in Love

Last updated on: January 7, 2015 at 7:24 pm By Love InshAllah Columnist

I’ve never been one to get along with conventionally attractive people – probably a residual internal bias against the “popular” crowd in grade school that incessantly teased me for my Otherness. As an adult, my wariness of attractive people has manifested in awkward conversations (which I’ve masked well with my quirky personality… I hope). Interviews are the worst – whether I’m interviewing for a job or being interviewed by the media. If the person I’m supposed to make eye contact... Read more

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Radical Love

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2014-12-31T17:21:13-07:00

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Happy 2015 & thank you!

Last updated on: December 31, 2014 at 5:21 pm By Posted by The Editors

Thank you so much to our wonderful readers for the Brass Crescent Award nominations for Best Blog & Best Female Blogger for the third year running! Last two days to vote, here 🙂 Happy 2015! Read more

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Brass Crescent Awards

2014-12-31T16:41:20-07:00

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And In The Morning, I’m Making Pancakes!

Last updated on: December 31, 2014 at 4:41 pm By Guest Contributor

It’s a rare experience in our adult lives for us to think, “Oh, I’ve never had this food before!” But the childhood memories I have of that novel sensation survive for good reason. I remember the first time I tried popcorn. I didn’t like it much so I fed it to the fish in the lake. I also remember the sweet, tangy sensation of my first sip of lemonade. But neither of these compares to the first time I tried... Read more

Food, Love, & Memories

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Adeeba Isbister

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2014-12-17T05:45:25-07:00

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Heidelberg and Huckleberries

Last updated on: December 17, 2014 at 5:45 am By Love InshAllah Columnist

On the surface, Mark Twain and I have nothing in common. Twain was a cranky Southern gentleman (with occasional bursts of quite ungentlemanly language), the quintessential Mississippian with that very American cockiness that most of our fellow travelers have. In Innocents Abroad and the subsequent A Tramp Abroad, Twain turns an unforgiving and merrily satirical eye on all things foreign, and writes about Europe at the end of the 19th century. He makes fun of customs and linguistic hangups, teasing and exploring,... Read more

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2014-12-10T18:32:06-07:00

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The View From Here

Last updated on: December 10, 2014 at 6:32 pm By Love InshAllah Columnist

In seventeen years of marriage, my husband and I have lived in one foreign country and three different states. At each of these locations, we’ve changed our homes at least twice, shrinking and expanding from a tiny apartment to a bigger apartment, from a smaller duplex to a larger high-rise, from a modest townhome to single-family home. And, within each of these homes, we’ve been different people and a different couple. Our first apartment was a one-bedroom in Santa Clara,... Read more

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Things I Wish I'd Known

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2015-04-15T21:44:30-07:00

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If God gives me the privilege of giving birth to a daughter

Last updated on: April 15, 2015 at 9:44 pm By Love InshAllah Columnist

Eds. Note: We are pleased to welcome our newest columnist, Key Ballah! Catch her column – Brown Girl Dreaming – the second Wednesday of every month. You are a woman every part of you reaches toward that identity, but you hesitate, cutting your tongue on the way that it sounds. Because your mother is a woman and the word rests against her so gently. Her hips are full, her mouth is wide, the word “woman” just seems to embrace her. But... Read more

Brown Girl Dreaming

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2014-12-03T18:29:08-07:00

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No Utensils Required

Last updated on: December 3, 2014 at 6:29 pm By Guest Contributor

Amman, Jordan – 1998 I joined my family in the dining room, noticing immediately that there were no chairs at the table. Where did they go? Pondering, I became distracted by the center of the dining table, mesmerized by a massive, round dish, called sider, towering with rice and lamb. It was time to feast. Everyone took their spots surrounding the sider, waiting to begin. Standing next to my father, I asked him where all the plates and cutlery were.... Read more

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Alya Ibrahim

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2014-12-03T18:30:03-07:00

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Love in Protest

Last updated on: December 3, 2014 at 6:30 pm By Love InshAllah Columnist

As my car crested the hill, I could see the skyline of downtown Los Angeles on the horizon. I noticed the lights of a helicopter hovering close to Bunker Hill and another over Chinatown. I slowed down, counting eight helicopters above. My stomach dropped and eyes welled. Nightfall is when the police gets more fierce, when protests grow as people leave work, and when infiltrators become bolder with their subversive tactics. My peers were on those streets, marching in solidarity... Read more

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2014-11-19T15:58:51-07:00

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Nijla Mu’min: Film, Identity, and ‘Noor’

Last updated on: November 19, 2014 at 3:58 pm By Guest Contributor

Nijla Mu’min’s Film in Progress Noor: Bringing Multidimensional Characters into the Light Interview by Kameelah Janan Rasheed Nijla Mu’min is a writer and filmmaker from the East Bay Area who found her “natural destination” to be filmmaking while a student at UC Berkeley. Beginning as a filmmaker focused on documentary and interventionist stories, she has now taken on narrative fiction filmmaking with her film Noor which unfolds the nuanced relationship that develops between a Palestinian man who works at a... Read more

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