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January 2015

January 22, 2015

Rebels by Accident

Deonna Kelli Sayed interviews writer Patricia Dunn, author of the YA novel, Rebels by Accident,...

December 2014

December 11, 2014

The View From Here

In seventeen years of marriage, my husband and I have lived in one foreign country...

May 2014

May 14, 2014

Joy(less) Motherhood

The text arrived while I sat at a coffee shop bent over a lazy notebook...

May 06, 2014

The Back Up Baby Daddy & My Geriatric Uterus

The little ghost pops up on my phone and I push the button to see...

February 2014

February 18, 2014

Burqas, Baseball, and Apple Pie

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

November 2013

November 07, 2013

The Paths To My Heart

I am not sure why I have not written in a long time. I try...

October 2013

October 10, 2013

Fervently Fantastic

Our parents named us after Islamic figures in hopes that we would grow up to...

September 2013

September 17, 2013

Back to the Rooftop

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

August 2013

August 28, 2013

Step Baba

I was around three when my mother met him. He said I took one look...

November 2012

November 28, 2012

Loving via Skype

After my second divorce, I took a break from relationships to decide what I wanted...

November 07, 2012

Small beauties

I read a book to my children, called "Small Beauties," and started tearing up right...

August 2012

August 09, 2012

Finding my spirituality

I didn’t mean to misplace my spirituality. I just lost it while searching for my...

May 2012

May 31, 2012

Real Talk

Last summer, after a long talk with a friend who'd been molested as a small...

May 24, 2012

Smelling Roses

Tonight the rains flooded the parkway, turning my twenty-five minute commute into an hour and...

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 12, 2012

I found love online – what will my daughter find?

It has been 18 years since I met my husband online. Now my 13-year-old daughter...

March 2012

March 22, 2012

Unexpected lessons in parenting

When I decided to participate in the Love, InshAllah anthology, I expected to be entertained...

March 14, 2012

Childless by CHOICE, Get it?

I don’t want kids. Never have. I consider birth control the greatest invention of the...

March 09, 2012

The divided heart: art and motherhood

I went to an extraordinary theater event tonight by Golden Thread featuring four playwrights/artists of...