(This article was originally posted at ibnabeeomar.com. To follow Omar’s work please subscribe to his email list.) I was excited, as a teenager, to join the...
Thanksgiving. Thankstaking. Truthsgiving. These are all names associated with the national holiday in the United States of America which today revolves around a feast involving a...
I remember the time when asking the Subway sandwich artist to change their gloves upon taking my order was an anxiety-inducing moment for me every single...
As countries across the world come to terms with COVID-19 as still a significant threat to global public health, we are facing yet another ‘code red...
Trigger Warning: physical abuse, spiritual abuse, sexual abuse Introduction and Background The latter half of the 20th century saw successive waves of immigration from Muslim lands into...
Trigger warning: miscarriage Losing It I felt it as I hobbled nearly doubled-over towards the car on our way to the ER. The pain that surged...
The Seeds There are seldom few childhood favorites that I obsessively consumed in my formative years –be they books, films, TV shows- that haven’t molded my...
Imam Siraj Wahhaj will always be known as a pioneer of the Islamic movement in the United States since the late 1970s. His humble demeanor, contagious...
After having my first, and only, child a week before Ramadan a couple years ago, the whole idea of what Ramadan meant to me was completely...
Omar met Celio Natá's flat gaze. The man was the Black Knife: the Ngäbe-Buglé’s secret weapon. A one-man strike force.