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November 2014

November 20, 2014

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

Nijla Mu’min’s Film in Progress Noor: Bringing Multidimensional Characters into the Light Interview by Kameelah Janan...

August 2014

August 13, 2014

Jump, Pray, Write

Two and a half years ago, I left my financially comfortable global marriage for an...

August 01, 2014

#MuslimYouthRising Creative Selfies

Here is a salute to creative selfies! BuzzFeed recently featured Yasmeen, an American-Muslim's tongue-in-cheek Tumblr...

May 2014

May 21, 2014

The Last Stop

The things you learn when writing your first novel: Novel-writing is a lonely process. Your...

May 16, 2014

Veiled Humor: Who Said Covered Girls Weren’t Funny?

Veiled Humor is a creative You Tube channel featuring Mona and Dana, who are "two...

April 2014

April 18, 2014

#HappyMuslims

The Honesty Policy's video of Pharrell's "Happy" featuring UK Muslims has taken the world by...

April 04, 2014

Friday Love – Technicolor Muslimah

We are happy to spread the word about a new project by Saba Barnard that includes...

March 2014

March 12, 2014

The Ides of March

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

March 07, 2014

Love Is Universal

Sometimes, you run into a good thing and you want to share it with everyone....

January 2014

January 16, 2014

Featured Artist: Nadia Janjua

Looking for the perfect Valentine's Day gift for loved ones? We're thrilled to announce a...

December 2013

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 05, 2013

The Legacy of Zines

Eds. note: Please welcome activist, storyteller, politico and Love InshAllah anthology contributor Tanzila "Taz" Ahmed...

September 2013

September 05, 2013

Writing for Love

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

August 2013

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...

May 2013

May 09, 2013

Heartbreak and the birth of creativity

It has never been my nature to attract romantic love, or to stumble into it...

May 01, 2013

On motherhood and creating space for creativity

How do you find the time to write? After questions of sleep habits, and diaper...

March 2013

March 13, 2013

Thoughts of a Wasat Girl: On Writing

Editor’s note: Writer and Love InshAllah anthology contributor Deonna Kelli Sayed is coming on board...

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 29, 2012

No se niega, I am my mother’s daughter

I’ve been so afraid of being like her, terrified really, that I’ve tried to ignore,...

October 2012

October 03, 2012

Delusions of Grandeur

Our wonderful contributor Huda Al-Marashi pens this hilarious piece for The Rumpus in which...

May 2012

May 15, 2012

My personal jihad

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

March 2012

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...