By Elham Saif, Sarrah AbuLughod and Wahida Abaza Fariha just started her freshman year at university. Overnight, she was separated from her support system of family...
You know that frustrating feeling of not knowing the answers to certain questions? Questions like: …am I praying or am I not? …can I touch the...
Female sexual nature and female sexual desires are often misunderstood, especially among Muslims. There are some classes and seminars by Muslim speakers that offer advice to...
On the border of San Diego, California and Tijuana, Mexico, several families live their lives torn apart—they were born on the wrong side of a wall....
“To lose one parent is misfortune. To lose both looks like carelessness.” – Oscar Wilde If I am to take Mr Wilde’s words to heart, I’ve...
The vast majority of Muslim men will be horrified by these stories and recognize how inappropriate and un-Islamic it is to contact any woman in a...
The way most Muslims (as well as conservative Christians and Jews) live, a man asks for a woman’s hand in marriage from the father. The father...
From a cognitive-development standpoint, this is called a concrete operational period, according to Jean Piaget. (N.B: Some adults never progress beyond this phase, while 15% of...
In recent years, Shaykh Hamza Yusuf, a notable Islamic scholar from North America, has gained global prominence by supporting efforts by the United Arab Emirates (UAE)...
This is called a pre-operational period by Jean Piaget who was focused on cognitive development. Children this age have difficulty reconciling between different dimensions or seemingly...