How to understand misfortune, trials, and tribulations in Islam — and how to get through them. We are living in extremely difficult times. COVID-19 and its devastating impact...
The Muslim social commentator, Wajahat Ali, recently (June 23, 2023) penned an op-ed in the New York Times entitled, We Muslims Used to Be the Culture...
Summer vacation means sunshine, the sea, and traveling galore – whether in an airplane or through a book! This Summer reading list is an introduction to...
Authors: Taimur Kouser, MA, and Rania Awaad, MD Mental Health Awareness Month (May) is an important time for us to define and bring awareness to mental...
The Western Muslim community has spent over two decades post-9/11 attempting to secure ally ships that would protect itself from the onslaught of right-wing, neocon anti-Muslim...
Dealing with emotionally immature parents is a topic that is often unaddressed in the masjid, and yet is a pervasive problem in the Muslim community. Out-of-touch...
This is a review of the book Hostile Homelands authored by Azad Essa, and published by Pluto Press in February 2023. Writing history is a conflict...
Ramadan falls in different seasons every year. As a young child, I remember Ramadan falling in winter, when fasting was a breeze and you didn’t even...
It is not too difficult to evoke an image of the idyllic Ramadan atmosphere, particularly in Muslim-majority countries: a community of believers praying the morning prayer...
If one of your Ramadan goals is to cut out music, Netflix, and terrible YouTube videos…then we’ve got a playlist for you to fill up the...