By Hamza Andreas Tzortzis ‘And We created not the heavens and the earth, and all that is between them, for mere play.’[1] [The Qur’an] A popular...
The comforting, feel-good narrative was that Ibtihaj Muhammad of the United States did not need to win a fencing match, let alone a fencing medal, for...
Another issue that I commonly faced in the MSA was dealing with the social dynamic of planning events as a group. Whereas the first post in...
I don’t have an answer for you but I do have our own journey to share: When Beta was three or four years old, we were...
I don’t remember too much from 1990, except for the excitement that came over me when I went to watch Home Alone and Teenage Mutant Ninja...
The path to autonomy can be treacherous. In the early 90s, my International Relations professor would describe leaders in newly independent Africa and Middle East nations...
When things that you thought were entirely unrelated to each other come together, it is a joy and a relief. A joy because you experience firsthand...
My first taste of racism occurred in kindergarten, where my classmates barred me from drinking out of the water fountains. When I was in fourth grade,...
The Muslim Student Associations (MSAs) in the United States or Islamic Societies (Isoc) in the United Kingdom at colleges, universities, and (increasingly) high schools play a significant —...
Sorrow, sadness for what has come to pass, anxiety and uncertainty of the future, are not things we need to escape. More and more we struggle...
