by Sana H. Aaser [dropcap size=small]W[/dropcap]hile Muslims were celebrating the final days of Ramadan and Eid, two unarmed black men – Philando Castile and Alton Sterling...
Dear Aunty, The biggest mistake I have seen mothers make when it comes to their daughters who are looking to get married is that mothers unreasonably...
By Fatima Barkatulla It was the day after the second Paris attack. Our local Muslim school sent parents a text-message telling them that security guards would...
The United States is one of few countries in the world that has testamentary free alienation of property. What this means is that you can...
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...
Below is author Umm Zakiyyah’s interview with Haneefah Adam, creator of Hijarbie. Please tell us a little about yourself: your ethnicity and nationality, family background, where you...
By Hooyo Said (a pseudonym) I write this on the evening that I told my daughter’s Qur’an teacher that I wanted my child to quit memorising...
By Umm Yusra Have you ever spent all your nights and days making dua for one specific thing? I mean crying your eyes dry in the darkness...
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,...
