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March 2015

March 25, 2015

Mothering in the Shadows

Editor's Note: Please welcome our newest writer Ambata Kazi-Nance whose monthly column Not Without Love...

March 11, 2015

Daughters Need Their Fathers Too

It was a Friday evening, that magical time for children and adults. Briefcases were put...

February 2015

February 12, 2015

The Day I (Almost) Became a Woman

I was ten-years-old. The air was sticky and heavy, the kind of heat that makes...

January 2015

January 08, 2015

Brown Girl Dreaming

I remember being three, face deep in a mango, my mosquito legs poking out from...

September 2014

September 11, 2014

Stinky Muslim Money

This is a fictional interview with a real Muslim about an incident that actually happened....

September 09, 2014

Memoirs of the Beautiful Widow

And just like that, I remember it all. At the age of 25, after 6.5...

August 2014

August 19, 2014

Show Me Love

Eds. Note: We’re featuring the stories and perspectives of Muslim youth between the ages of 18-25...

July 2014

July 10, 2014

When Fairy Tales Fail Us

When a daughter is born into a loving family, she is cherished and treated like...

July 03, 2014

My Mother-in-Law’s Pakoray

Food, Love & Memories is a bimonthly column devoted to the evocative connections between the heart,...

May 2014

May 07, 2014

Not Your Mother’s Sunday Brunch

Eds. Note: In honor of Mother's Day, today is the debut of Food, Love &...

April 2014

April 23, 2014

My Father and My Religion

I was on a conference call one evening last week when my call waiting beeped...

April 01, 2014

#IfKhadijaCanDoIt or The Patriarchy of Death

The first time I walked up the sidewalk to the front door after “it” happened,...

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,...

February 17, 2014

Inter-Dependent

Inter-Dependent I wanted to show you what I saw And heard And understood But it...

January 2014

January 22, 2014

The Force Is Strong With This One

“Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to...

January 13, 2014

The Island: A Memoir

She has another dream. In this one, she can see the tarmac from the small...

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...

September 2013

September 26, 2013

What’s Love Got To Do With It?

I am estranged from my father, and no, I don’t like talking about it. Why...

September 17, 2013

Back to the Rooftop

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

September 07, 2013

Melody Moezzi’s Bipolar Life

Love, Inshallah Author Interview: Melody Moezzi, Haldol to Hyacinths: A Bipolar Life Narrated and produced...

July 2013

July 03, 2013

Aisha & The Dragon Slayer

Eds. note.: Happy 11th wedding anniversary to our columnist Aisha Saeed & her husband Kashif!...

June 2013

June 16, 2013

A Love Letter to Muslim Fathers

'Love InshAllah' editor Ayesha Mattu writes a love letter to Muslim fathers on Father's Day....

May 2013

May 15, 2013

The Doctor Will See You Now

Zainab Chaudary is Love Inshallah's resident geek. Look for her column, “The Geekologist” every third Wednesday...

March 2013

March 20, 2013

Faith, Marriage, and Scrabble

My fiancé Ahmed came to the US from his native Turkey in part to escape...

March 06, 2013

Baby, you’re a big girl now

Dear Emi, In a couple weeks’ time, I will be ironing a navy blue pinafore...

February 2013

February 15, 2013

Friday Love: Adoptive mom’s ‘newborn’ photo shoot

♥ this! We are never too old to want -- and deserve -- love, security...

January 2013

January 31, 2013

Hey Autism, Verily with Difficulty There is Ease

Spring break on the beach: Are we a couple of free-wheeling college students on Daytona...

December 2012

December 07, 2012

Friday Love – Nayomi Munaweera

A family epic set against the backdrop of the Sri Lankan civil war comes to...

November 2012

November 22, 2012

Science Fiction and The Search for Gratitude on Thanksgiving

Eds. note: "Piglet noticed that even though he had a very small heart, it could...

September 2012

September 12, 2012

Love, Withheld

Every mother has two birthing tales:One, that of giving birth to her child, is shared....