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August 2013

August 28, 2013

Step Baba

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

August 22, 2013

Advice: Dating a woman with a past

Dear Love, InshAllah: I've met a girl I really like. We have been good friends...

August 16, 2013

Friday Love: Skateistan

This. Is. Awesome. Bring Skateistan to the US - would love to see more girls...

August 15, 2013

Speak Softly and Carry a Big Stick

I’m the kind of person that tries to block out painful, embarrassing memories. Recent media...

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...

August 12, 2013

I Have Exchanged My Heart

I Have Exchanged My Heart I have exchanged my heart for a new heart so...

August 09, 2013

Friday Love: Happy Book Lover’s Day!

Jumma mubarak & Happy Book Lover's Day!

August 08, 2013

Eid Mubarak!

Eid mubarak from the Love InshAllah family to you & yours!

August 07, 2013

On the humbling nature of parenthood

I had always envisioned myself as a certain kind of parent. At five I imagined...

August 04, 2013

Ramadan, Motherhood, Spirituality

Ramadan is almost over. During this last week of reflection and worship, we thought this...

August 02, 2013

Friday Love: Show Your Love

The 10th annual Brass Crescent Awards are open for nominations for the best blogs in...

July 2013

July 31, 2013

For the Love of Their Grandchildren

Love, Inshallah welcomes back Dilshad Ali, who provided a previous post about raising a child...

July 25, 2013

I Have Arrived

From the corn fields and county fairs of Ohio to the Big Apple with an...

July 24, 2013

Three’s Company

I must seem like good wife material to these brothas… Second wife material that is....

July 22, 2013

Letter to My Mother

Read poet, med student and Love InshAllah contributor Suzanne Syeda Shah's poem on love, estrangement...

July 19, 2013

Friday Love: This is Your Life

What a lovely way to start the weekend! Originally spotted at Upworthy and is based...

July 18, 2013

[FATHER/HOOD] Inconvenient Truth

I think I scared my daughter. Hell, I think I terrified her. When I heard the...

July 16, 2013

Someday, inshAllah

InshAllah someday, someone will walk into your life and make you realize why it never...

July 15, 2013

1979: A Love Story Began

Ashoke Ganguli: There is something I always wanted to ask you, but never had the...

July 12, 2013

Friday Love: Happy Birthday, Malala!

Time after time, activist and leader Malala Yousufzai has refused to be silenced. Today, she...

July 11, 2013

Advice: In love with a Muslim man

Dear Love, InshAllah, I find myself in a hard situation with a Muslim man I...

July 10, 2013

I Shall Be Still

1. A Lesson on Repentance, Mercy, and Compassion I know a man who is a...

July 09, 2013

Ramadan Kareem!

Wishing you & yours a Ramadan filled with the blessings of love, tranquility & beauty!

July 08, 2013

The Pleasure That It Is

The Pleasure That It Is In Ramadan, we spoon, innocent as children We sleep with...

July 05, 2013

Friday Love: Raise your words

Because love is like rain: from it, things grow. Have a wonderful weekend!

July 04, 2013

What Bollywood Taught Me About Love

I do not often tell others now that my parents rarely kissed or hugged us...

July 03, 2013

Aisha & The Dragon Slayer

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

July 02, 2013

On being a writer of color

Journalist and writer Zahir Janmohamed pens a brilliant piece in Guernica about being a writer...

June 2013

June 29, 2013

This. Is. Awesome.

Brilliant comic starring a badass Muslim superhero who "defends women against...idiocy." Check out the comic...

June 28, 2013

Friday Love: Beats for Bangladesh

Curated by world reknowned hip-hop artist Brooklyn Shanti and political activist, writer & Love InshAllah anthology...