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March 2014

March 19, 2014

Zen and the Art of Being Naked

One of the most common nightmares in the world - alongside falling or drowning, performing...

March 13, 2014

The Life and Death of a First Love

First love can be a bittersweet and intense experience, especially if it is unrequited. It...

March 12, 2014

The Ides of March

The Ides of March --(or how girl can write her way to a new life)...

March 10, 2014

Return of the Friend

Return of the Friend I had not expected love but it surprised, like the slip...

March 03, 2014

The Real Ones

The Real Ones Something happened in the development sector Something we forgot Something we should...

February 2014

February 27, 2014

Love Between The Lines

“‘I love you’ scares me,” he admitted, looking nervous. “I’m not sure I know what...

February 26, 2014

Just a friend

All I heard was the word “friends”. Everything after that was muffled. To be quite...

February 19, 2014

My Sci Fi Valentine

I have a problem with Jerry Maguire. It’s got nothing to do with Tom Cruise’s toothy...

February 18, 2014

Burqas, Baseball, and Apple Pie

Love, Inshallah presents an author interview podcast with The Faith Club author, Ranya Tabari Idliby,...

February 12, 2014

Love (Again)

Be yourself. Especially, do not feign affection. Neither be critical about love; for in the...

January 2014

January 20, 2014

Woman

This poem was originally written in the wake of the brutal gang rape of Jyoti...

January 06, 2014

Manifesto for the Chaste Wanton

Manifesto for the Chaste Wanton She will be your wild mare at night, but in...

December 2013

December 18, 2013

Salaam and Merry Christmas!

I was raised in a conservative Muslim household. We prayed five times a day and...

December 11, 2013

Love, Whiteness, and Girls in Turbans

Lots of things have been going down at www.patheos.com/blogs/loveinshallah and within the Muslim blogosphere. The...

November 2013

November 20, 2013

Love Thyself (Inshallah)

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

October 2013

October 09, 2013

On Writing and Bike Riding

I started bicycle riding a few months ago after a twenty-five year lull. A fellow...

October 07, 2013

Canyon Girl

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

October 03, 2013

Advice: Nervous About Sex

Salam Love InshAllah, I will be getting married next month and I will move from...

September 2013

September 18, 2013

My X-Men

I have opinions. About the X-Men. I’m a child of the 1990’s, so my reference...

September 17, 2013

Back to the Rooftop

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

September 09, 2013

A Man’s Chest

A Man's Chest How come no one ever writes about a man's chest, that forested...

September 06, 2013

Recite, in the name of thy Lord

Bless the lips of women who recite the word of their Lord, and bless the...

September 05, 2013

Writing for Love

When The Love, Inshallah call for submissions found its way into my email inbox, I...

August 2013

August 23, 2013

Calling Muslim Women Artists, Activists, Thinkers

Sisters, our time is here. The groundbreaking International Muslim of Women's online global exhibition, Muslima:...

August 14, 2013

You Will Know Your Name

A few weeks shy of turning forty-years old, www.patheos.com/blogs/loveinshallah editor, writer Deonna Kelli Sayed, pens...

July 2013

July 25, 2013

I Have Arrived

From the corn fields and county fairs of Ohio to the Big Apple with an...

July 10, 2013

I Shall Be Still

1. A Lesson on Repentance, Mercy, and Compassion I know a man who is a...

May 2013

May 08, 2013

Single (American-Muslim) Mother

A “Wasat Girl” embraces being in-between multiple cultures, because this transcultured space is globalism living...

August 2012

August 31, 2012

Friday Love: G. Willow Wilson

If Scheherazade and Neil Gaiman had a baby, she would look like G. Willow Wilson's new...