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May 2014

May 23, 2014

Fashion Fighting Famine

Anaheim: Love InshAllah & Salaam Love editor Ayesha Mattu will be speaking on the #ChallengeBeauty...

May 22, 2014

Girls Like It, Too

Call me crazy, but girls love sex too. (Yes I know, a shocker right?)...

May 21, 2014

The Last Stop

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

May 20, 2014

The Most Epic Blanket Fort and the Nerdy Love Story That Made It So

This fall, Nhu-An and I are getting married. We've been together since November 18, 2000,...

May 19, 2014

El Hajj Malik El Shabazz/Malcolm X

Today would have been El Hajj Malik El Shabazz/Malcolm X's 89th birthday, may he be blessed with...

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...

May 14, 2014

Joy(less) Motherhood

The text arrived while I sat at a coffee shop bent over a lazy notebook...

May 13, 2014

Equal in the Eyes of Marriage

I was a novelty to Ashley. I'd never travelled or lived alone. I'd never been...

May 09, 2014

2014 Retreat for LGBTQ Muslims & their Partners ~ May 2014

Cross-posting this in solidarity with our friends at The Muslim Alliance for Sexual and Gender...

May 08, 2014

Soulmates

The Prophet (pbuh) said: “Souls are like crowds, which gather together. The ones who met...

May 07, 2014

Not Your Mother’s Sunday Brunch

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

May 06, 2014

The Back Up Baby Daddy & My Geriatric Uterus

The little ghost pops up on my phone and I push the button to see...

May 01, 2014

#WeNeedDiverseBooks Campaign

The #WeNeedDiverseBooks hashtag has been trending on Twitter for three days now and just went viral, pointing...

April 2014

April 30, 2014

Serial Husbands

Recently, one of my friends informed me that her ex-husband was getting remarried. My first...

April 29, 2014

Food, Love, & Memories

We are pleased to announce that our new bimonthly column - Food, Love, &...

April 28, 2014

Give Muhammad a Chance

At 21 I married a man five years older than me. The second time around,...

April 25, 2014

Story and Chai

Writer Jennifer Zobair, the author of Painted Hands, found herself feeling uncomfortable when people thanked...

April 23, 2014

My Father and My Religion

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

April 22, 2014

Child of Loss

I have written a lot recently on my experience with caregiving and death both at...

April 18, 2014

#HappyMuslims

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

April 17, 2014

Muslimah Montage: The Powerful Tapestry of Muslim Women

I was five years old when I realized that I was different from the kids...

April 16, 2014

All The Single Ladies

Two months ago, sitting in a Turkish restaurant packed to capacity on a Saturday night,...

April 14, 2014

So, A Muslim and a Jewish Girl Get Up on Stage….

This slam poetry video is making the rounds and is too moving not to share....

April 11, 2014

MuslimARC

There is so much buzz in the Muslim community right now between #hashtag activism and...

April 02, 2014

On Cosmos, Smallness, Divinity, and Love

When K turned on the new show Cosmos, I was hesitant. A show about the...

April 01, 2014

#IfKhadijaCanDoIt or The Patriarchy of Death

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

March 2014

March 31, 2014

Dis/Orient/Ed Comedy tickets – Oakland!

Oakland/SF Bay Area: Catch the fantastic Dis/Orient/ed Comedy show this Saturday, April 5th! Our readers...

March 28, 2014

Good News Friday: Book Deals and Radical Writing Opportunities!

We are thrilled that Love, Inshallah anthology contributor and Literary Momma columnist, Aisha Saeed, has...

March 21, 2014

Friday Love: Alicia Keys & The Sicilian Nun

Last week it was AbuEesagate. This week it was the #AliceinArabia controversy (which you can...

March 19, 2014

Zen and the Art of Being Naked

One of the most common nightmares in the world - alongside falling or drowning, performing...