Author’s note: Writing on marriage always carries a certain burden of responsibility towards the audience. The writer is never sure who out there is reading under...
This article is based on original reporting as well as content from the documentary film Adama which will be broadcast nationally Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2016 at...
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...
Daniel Haqiqatjou’s response to this New York Times piece. LOS ANGELES, United States — After Woodstock came campus surveys on sexual assault. After bra-burning came date...
By Dunia Shuaib And those who say, “Our Lord, grant us from among our wives and offspring comfort to our eyes and make us an...
Before I state my piece, let me be clear where I’m coming from. As a lyricist and producer myself, I appreciate raw talent, and there’s no...
When I first began writing what would eventually become the novel His Other Wife, it wasn’t about marriage or polygamy, or even romantic relationships. It was...
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...
“Anyone who asks a woman who has been married for several years and does not have a child ‘why?’ is a monster,” I think to myself...
“…So give me a call, Aliyah. I think this may be the one.” Aliyah rolled her eyes as she deleted the voicemail message then pressed the...