This Ramadan, MuslimMatters is pleased to host the Institute Of Knowledge‘s daily Ramadan series: Keys to the Divine Compass. Through this series,...
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...
Over the last eight months, after painful illnesses which affected them physically and neurologically, both my parents have passed away. While there is so much to...
By Shaykh Arsalan Haque “…there are too many of our masajid that are unwelcoming to women. In some masajid, women are allocated the smelly basement or...
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By Samaiya Mushtaq Soon after I started residency in psychiatry, the movie Spotlight was released, about The Boston Globe’s investigation and groundbreaking story on sexual abuse...
News of the dismissal of Asia Noreen Bibi’s case (a Christian woman accused of blasphemy and imprisoned for almost a decade) in Pakistan has erupted on...
By Gulnaz Uighur In 1949 two things happened, first was the establishment of the People’s Republic of China and second was the invasion of East Turkestan...
With the midterm elections upon us, many familiar discussions in the community are taking place including how we vote for candidates that have unsatisfactory platforms with...
“…There’s an African proverb which is very profound, and it fits – Subhan Allah- directly with this hadith; that if the youth are not initiated into...
Recently, during my last psychotherapy session of the week, I listened to a Muslim woman talk about the details of being sexually abused as a child....
