It’s interesting how a catchy nickname and a strong hit of nostalgia can override conventional wisdom. While basketball fans spend this week and the next (and...
Forty is a special age. It’s the quintessential age of mid-life. It’s older than ‘young’, but younger than ‘old’. It’s an age where one has typically...
When I first heard about teenage girls in the West leaving their homes to join ISIS, I couldn’t begin to fathom how and why they would...
A couple of months ago, I spent a few days in Arizona during Major League Baseball’s annual spring training. If you’ve never been, spring training is...
See Previous parts: FearBusters: Conquering our Fears, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5 Part 6: Fear of Change Have you ever asked yourself...
The biggest challenge of parenting is to accept that we are facing a world very different from the one in which we grew up. This is...
The Word “Dhurriyyah” was mentioned 32 times in the Qur’an in 19 different surahs. This points to the significance of the word “Dhurriyyah,” which means offspring...
“None of us like judgmental people. But we are all, to a certain extent, judgmental people. After all, one must be judgmental to even judge others...
Pop psychology has this unique ability to take the worst of philosophical sophistry, combine it with the shoddiest research methods, and spit out ill-begotten, yet Scientific™,...
The globalization of the National Basketball Association has been a multi-layered process: part geographic, part linguistic, part stylistic and part philosophical. Not only has the league...
