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For as long as I can remember, every time ISIS, Al-Qaeda or any other Islamic terrorist group entered the conversation, I have felt the urge to immediately say “yeah, but those people don’t really represent Islam!”. This was a reflex….
Being both Black and Muslim is a beautiful and complicated existence. Being a woman on top of that, is an added insight into the world that I personally treasure. Yet it is an existence of being under constant social pressure…
Once again, a series of tragic massacres have rocked our world. First, it was 49 people, killed in a gay nightclub in Orlando. This mass murderer was Omar Mateen. The FBI says that Mateen was ‘undoubtedly radicalized.’ In Nice, a…
Until two weeks ago, mentions of Qandeel Baloch on my social media were accompanied by memes and jokes. Posts ridiculing her accent, laughing at her, judging her – but through it all, consuming her. Last week, I woke up to…
On Saturday morning I awoke to the sad news that Qandeel Baloch, the Pakistani social media sensation,had been killed by her brother, Wasim. He had strangled her to death at the family home in Multan, Pakistan. Qandeel’s raunchy online antics…
According to Landmine Monitor 2015, the annual publication of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, women and girls made up 12% of all casualties in the previous year. However that percentage varies by country. There are no official casualty figures…
At I was 12 years old, I had already been living in Canada for six years already. My Egyptian, drama-loving mom was starved for some of the over-the-top, crazy antics of Arab TVOnce she was finally able to get an…
In February 2015, Shamima, 16, Kadiza, 17, and Amira, 16, went missing. They were caught on camera flying from Gatwick to Istanbul. By July 2015 at least two of the girls had been married to older men, chosen for them…
Child, early and forced marriages are global problems that cut across countries, religions, political regimes and ethnicities. According to the United Nation Children’s Fund report, 15 million girls each year are married before the age of 18. More than 700…
On June 16th, 2011, Shamima Begum and Amira Abase—aged fifteen—and Kadiza Sultana—aged sixteen—boarded a flight from London Heathrow to Turkey and from there, to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). One in ten of ISIS’s recruits from the…
When I was 10, I came across the term rapeseed in a book. I asked my mother what rape was. After the explanation I got, I decided to use the word oilseed instead. Somehow associating a plant’s name with something…
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