sister-hood is an award-winning digital magazine spotlighting the diverse voices of women of Muslim heritage.

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Maryam Mir

Maryam Mir is an Irish American Muslim story teller memoirist. She resides in Southern Arizona reflecting on the seasons of change. Maryam observes the renewal of desert beds of cactus needle growth and the blossoming of Mexican petunias in her garden. It is there she finds the power love has in being laced with verbiage. Her most cherished name to be referred to is "Grandmama."
Poetry

The threads of Eid

This year will be different We will smile at one another Through our hearts Intertwined, threaded Across miles and miles  Yet nearer still, our seeds Have never been as steadfast As the time we had to maneuver For parking Or…

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Poetry

Jury Duty, aka, Running on Empty

When you are selected to be a possible juror on a criminal case with 17 other possible jurors and listen to the info video (which includes lunch time from noon to 1:30) and then you are all gathered up by…

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Poetry

Ramadan corners

Corners folded, curved, stuffed With minced meat, potatoes, peas Spices galore Platters upon platters, overflowed  To again feed the empty pangs of Ramadan Another year tendered sustenance, With memories yet to fill Each dish embraced as savoury favourites; Samosas, pakoras,…

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Experiences

A dream of my mother

It was in April, 1990 when my mother was diagnosed with cancer of the gallbladder. Wouldn’t you know it? She’d have an oddball type of cancer. Mom went through chemotherapy during one of the hottest summers in one of the…

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Poetry

When Irish soda bread read Surah Fatihah

Sunlight streamed through the kitchen blinds to witness its part, as wisps of stalks kissed the sky far off, stretching in bulk – in hopes of someday joining the flour board to Surahs. The salt of the earth knew its…

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Experiences

Welcoming Eid

Many Eid moon-phases ago, I was a new Muslim convert. I have gone to several Eid events during those lunar phases. And like the moon changes, time has changed some of my views on such joyous events. I still attend…

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Experiences

Good Morning America!

This isn’t an article about Islam. It’s about Good Morning America in the 1980s. It’s about perceptions. It’s about the media. It’s about time. It’s about space. It’s about my mother. Joan Lunden and David Hartman were the co-hosts of…

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