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January 2013

January 25, 2013

Friday Love: Josh Garrels

Our ode to men speaking on love & intimacy continues this week as singer, songwriter,...

January 23, 2013

Couchsurfing to Love

Ed. note: The author of today's post won our Eid contest, "tweet us your love...

January 18, 2013

Friday love: BrotherSpeak

We love the Washington Post video series, "BrotherSpeak," exploring the lives of black men in the...

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 04, 2013

Friday Love: Single Girl Resolutions

A fun New Year comic by cartoonist Connie Sun. Best of luck with your 2013...

January 03, 2013

Man of the House

I’ve had many humbling experiences in my life, including voluntarily going homeless for one week...

December 2012

December 21, 2012

Friday Love: Love, Alhamdulillah!

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

December 20, 2012

Loss. Love. Forgiveness. Love. In that order.

Hayah in Cape Town, 2009 July 3, 2009 - the day that I finally got...

December 14, 2012

Friday Love – Writing & Love

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love...

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,...

December 07, 2012

Friday Love – Nayomi Munaweera

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

December 06, 2012

The Greater Truth

(Ed. note: Today's guest post is by editor Ayesha Mattu's husband) Honesty is the best...

December 05, 2012

For Earl

Earl is no ordinary man. I know, I know; any declaration of love can begin...

November 2012

November 13, 2012

Prayers for Roxy

We don't know Roxy personally, but we believe in the power of thought, prayer, and...

November 09, 2012

Loving after loss (Part 2)

I woke from deep slumber with the gray lights of dawn peeking in. I had...

October 2012

October 24, 2012

The Moment I Realized That I Was Good

Let me detail my faults before I showcase my better parts. I am not a...

October 04, 2012

Confessions of a recovering sex addict

The note hanging above my desk reads: “Love is the answer.” I look at it...

October 03, 2012

Delusions of Grandeur

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

September 2012

September 28, 2012

Friday love: Balpreet Kaur

Our love to the fabulous, powerful, and beautiful Balpreet Kaur, a Sikh-American woman who responded...

September 26, 2012

30 Years Together

Unlike the movies, making a life with another person is rarely a happily ever after....

September 24, 2012

50 Romantic Photos

Check out more photos in Buzzfeed's collection entitled, The 50 Most Romantic Photos of All...

September 21, 2012

Friday Love: Avital Chizhik

Last week we highlighted Avital Chizhik's wonderful NYT post "The God of Marriage", which details...

September 20, 2012

3 Beautiful Things Thursday: My wife laughs in her sleep edition

Cross-posted from hijabman, who is, coincidentally, the husband of Love InshAllah writer Aida Rahim! 1....

September 12, 2012

Love, Withheld

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

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 15, 2012

When you’re up between the new skyline, the city lights and the warm sunshine

As Jane Eyre says, Reader, I married him. Or should I say, I married them?...

August 09, 2012

Finding my spirituality

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

August 06, 2012

In solidarity with our Sikh brothers and sisters

Deepest love, respect and prayers for the fallen and their families at the gurdwara in...

August 02, 2012

Love is Doing

Omid and Roya Some women have dreams about their weddings. Some men dream about finding...