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Whether you call it a tradition or custom, but giving wedding gifts also known as dowry to daughters has been followed, consciously or unconsciously since ages unknown within certain cultures. From one perspective, these gifts are a good-will gesture from…
I first discovered the ‘hijabistas’ by watching Youtubers such as Dina Tokio, Ascia AKF, Habiba da Silva and Noor Tagouri. Through these Youtubers, I found Modest Street Fashion, a book documenting the trend for modest fashion which has spread from…
When I tell people that I am a vegan, the usual response (other than the repetitive ‘But how can you live without bacon!?’) is to ask if it is for religious reasons. My parents are from India, home to a…
For the past week or so, I have been immersed in Bertrand Russell‘s writings. I do that often. I find what he writes comforting as violence spins out of control in so many parts of the world: some very close…
We have reached an era in which what individual women wear to beaches has become a crucial concern within the secular, former colonial, French government. During the summer of 2016, 30 mayors in France have banned the burkini, a form…
‘I’m Muslim and I love to fuck’ I heard writer Mona Eltahawy make this statement in Oslo, at the World Woman festival organised by Deeyah Khan. Many Muslim women, including myself, cheered Mona’s statement. Muslim women are painted as sexually…
This year, I followed the Rio Olympics 2016 with a great enthusiasm, mainly because of the many Muslim female participants representing Muslim and Western countries in various sports. These women have exhibited extraordinary talent, winning medals in everything from taekwondo,…
Crossing into my 30s has been an awakening. The intersection of my 30s with marriage feels like an eruption of the self. The past, its conditioning, the engraved thoughts and words, the loss, the confusion, all of it in its…
One day in May 2013, I woke up and told myself that today was the day that I would start to wear the hijab. At that time, I did not have any Muslim friends, nor was my family religiously conservative….
I’m a tour guide at a mosque. I give tours to non-Muslims. Part of my job is to fend off stereotypical ideas about Muslims. When I first started, I was really excited. It has been a topic I’ve always talked…
From the latest UNICEF report: Today, 50 million children have had to leave their homes because of conflict; One in 200 refugees in the world is a child; There are twice as many children refugees in 2015 than they were…
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