“Too much admiration breeds contempt. It is better, I think, to just be understood.” —the character Salima in His Other Wife by Umm Zakiyyah ~ “It’s...
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...
By Hiba Akhtar Someone texted a friend of mine a few weeks ago looking for khutbah topics. “Flint,” she replied. It seemed obvious. We live in...
And do not insult one another and do not call each other by [offensive] nicknames. Wretched is the name of disobedience after...
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...
Oped By Mariam Abu-Ali Today, my brother Ahmed turns 35. He could have graduated from college. He could have started a career. He could have met...
Chereen’s interview with Dr. Samir Iqbal, the Pakistani-American scientist who developed a device to diagnose cancer rapidly. Iqbal worked on the project with Young-tae Kim, a UTA...
By Dr. Mohannad Hakeem Social media brings with it many complexities when it comes to interactions between people. Muslims are no exception, and the halal/haram set...
