By Zainab Chaudry To travel to the Palestinian city of Hebron is to glimpse the grit, resilience and tenacity of the human spirit under extreme duress. ...
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...
A video of Professor Anila Daulatzai being forcefully removed from her flight by law enforcement personnel, who were called in by Southwest Airlines employees, recently went...
I went for Hajj last year and I had started packing three months before we left! I know it’s crazy, but I was really confused and...
I felt rather ambivalent about my first trip to Japan last summer. I was certainly ecstatic about the opportunity to visit the country for a research...
President Donald Trump is preparing to issue an executive order dramatically restricting refugee admissions to the U.S. and denying visas to individuals from countries his administration...
وَعَلامَاتٍ وَبِٱلنَّجْمِ هُمْ يَهْتَدُونَ “And landmarks. And by the stars they are [also] guided.” [16:16] You’re on a road trip and it’s time to pray...
When your name gets called in the throne room, you know you’ve hit the jackpot! Ramadan of 1998 was my first trip for Umrah. A gift...
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...
Prelude | Part I | Part II | Part III | Part IV | Part V | Part VI The “The Motherland” series will go over the...