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February 2013

February 22, 2013

Friday Love: To This Day

We love this video, "To This Day," a project based on a spoken word poem...

February 21, 2013

Advice: Clueless about my wedding night

Dear Love InshAllah: I am a virgin, and I really don't know what to expect...

February 07, 2013

Advice: Wish my wife would cover up

Dear Love Inshallah, My wife is a beautiful, smart and desirable woman. She wears low-cut,...

January 2013

January 24, 2013

Advice: Cheated on by a pious Muslim man

Dear Love InshAllah: My husband is cheating on me. I found out because he wasn’t...

January 17, 2013

A Filmi Love Story

As I write this, my husband and I are hanging out over web cam in...

January 16, 2013

The Five Pillars of My Relationship

I'm a community organizer addressing men’s violence against women within the South Asian immigrant community....

January 10, 2013

Advice: Marriage Sucks

Dear Love InshAllah, My wife does not perform oral sex on me. It aggravates me....

January 09, 2013

Let’s talk about sex (InshAllah)

Since publishing Love InshAllah, we've received countless e-mails from women and men with questions about...

December 2012

December 21, 2012

Friday Love: Love, Alhamdulillah!

2012 – what a year! We started it with a love note to Jon Stewart...

December 13, 2012

How to get married in a month: Or, how I stopped worrying and loved Sarah Kureshi

For all those wondering about the “story” behind my “sudden” marriage to Sarah Kureshi, here’s...

December 12, 2012

From bizarre to bliss – my year on a Muslim matrimonial site

Two days had gone by since he had called. Well, two days and nine hours,...

November 2012

November 30, 2012

Friday Love – “Alif the Unseen”

One of the most wonderful and talented women we know, American Muslim author G. Willow...

November 08, 2012

The Faith that Faith Produced

I was washing dishes in the kitchen when I stopped believing in God. Years later,...

October 2012

October 31, 2012

Unexpected prayer

“Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth, "You owe me."...

October 17, 2012

College life — debunked

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

September 2012

September 10, 2012

The God of Marriage

Beautifully written and insightful post by Avital Chizhik in the New York Times on the...

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 24, 2012

Friday love: A community in Ramadan, a family for Eid

This past week saw the end of the holy month of Ramadan and the Eid-al-Fitr...

August 22, 2012

Yes, I am.

Many of our readers have told us that they were incredibly touched by the story...

August 01, 2012

How Muslim are you?

Are you Muslim? …How Muslim are you? …No but, really…how Muslim are you? I get asked these questions,...

July 2012

July 25, 2012

Like a virgin

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

July 09, 2012

Watch Love Live!

Did you miss a reading of Love, InshAllah when we came to your hometown? Don't...

July 05, 2012

Interfaith Voices

The NPR show Interfaith Voices invited editor Nura Maznavi to discuss Love, InshAllah and her...

May 2012

May 25, 2012

Friday love — Savvy Sister of the Week!

The wonderful online community MySavvySisters.com selected Love, InshAllah co-editor Ayesha Mattu as their Savvy Sister...

May 23, 2012

The Last Virgin

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

May 15, 2012

My personal jihad

When I think of my father sometimes I think of hot links- the halal ones...

May 09, 2012

It is our time

"It's our time." She says, and I nod. I'm in Brooklyn, chatting with a Muslim...

May 03, 2012

Hijab and Havaianas

I am someone who defies convention. I converted to Islam shortly after 9 But that...

May 01, 2012

Mama’s girl

When I did something wrong, I wasn’t grounded or sent to my room. My mother...

April 2012

April 04, 2012

The Love Tour goes to Humboldt County

Nura is back in San Francisco for two weeks and we've been having a glorious...