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February 2013

February 14, 2013

Share the love!

Happy Valentine's Day! :) Share the love with a neighbor today - whether next door,...

February 13, 2013

Mother knows best

Our 4th parody Valentine's Day card! :) To share with your friends, click here.

February 12, 2013

Love InshAllah’s 5th edition!

The 5th edition of Love InshAllah is in bookstores now. Our deepest love & gratitude...

February 12, 2013

Trust us, this pick-up line won’t work

The fun continues with our Valentine's Day parody card #3! To send to your friends...

February 11, 2013

E-card: Will you be my Valentine?

Our second satirical Valentine's Day card. To send this card to friends though someecards.com, click...

February 10, 2013

Satirical Valentine’s Day Card #1: In search of a fair doctor

Our first satirical V-Day card, courtesy of someecards (the internet's one-stop shop for e-greeting parodies):...

February 08, 2013

Friday Love: Malala Yousufzai

Fifteen-year-old Pakistani girls' education activist Malala Yousufzai has been formally nominated for the 2013 Nobel...

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,...

February 06, 2013

How to say goodbye to your mother

What do you tell her? If you have five years to say good-bye or no...

February 01, 2013

Friday Love: Man Prayer

Our love this Friday for this beautiful short film where our brothers speak out about...

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...

January 30, 2013

Description: Single Female/Superpower: Writing

If you are a single woman who seriously writes, this can be a serious issue....

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 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 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 11, 2013

Friday Love: Warsan Shire

Warsan Shire's poetry leaves us breathless and aflame. She is a Kenyan-born Somali poet and writer...

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...

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 31, 2012

A blessed 2013 to you & yours!

Wishing our friends, family & readers a blessed and beautiful 2013 from the city in...

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 19, 2012

That Bollywood Moment

Kuch Kuch Hota Hai “I hear he walks around high school with his shirt unbuttoned,...

December 14, 2012

Friday Love – Writing & Love

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

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,...

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...