For new Muslims nothing can be more daunting than dealing with family members’ reactions to the decision of converting to Islam. Parents, siblings, and other relatives...
by Zainab Chaudry Our group’s first stop after crossing the border into Palestine is the historic city of Jericho. Located in the occupied West Bank...
In December 2005, I formally took my first Imam position at Masjid Abu Bakr in New Orleans where I would serve for 6 years. With the...
By Zainab Chaudry Crossing the border into present day Palestine is a dystopian experience. As our bus leaves Amman and approaches the Jordanian side of the...
Over the last eight months, after painful illnesses which affected them physically and neurologically, both my parents have passed away. While there is so much to...
By Shaykh Arsalan Haque “…there are too many of our masajid that are unwelcoming to women. In some masajid, women are allocated the smelly basement or...
Editorial Note: This column is an op-ed [opposite editorial] and does not reflect the views of MuslimMatters. MuslimMatters’ original piece on the topic can be found...
By Samaiya Mushtaq Soon after I started residency in psychiatry, the movie Spotlight was released, about The Boston Globe’s investigation and groundbreaking story on sexual abuse...
News of the dismissal of Asia Noreen Bibi’s case (a Christian woman accused of blasphemy and imprisoned for almost a decade) in Pakistan has erupted on...
By Gulnaz Uighur In 1949 two things happened, first was the establishment of the People’s Republic of China and second was the invasion of East Turkestan...
