sister-hood is an award-winning digital magazine spotlighting the diverse voices of women of Muslim heritage.
An interview with Emel Mathlouthi Emel Mathlouthi is a Tunisian singer-songwriter currently residing in New York. Her music played a significant role in inspiring Tunisian pro-democracy protesters, earning her the title of ‘voice of the Tunisian Revolution.’ She has since performed…
It is 2017, but it might as well be 1827 or the VIIth century BCE for that matter. Visions of the Middle East and Muslims in general have changed little… We are still the battling hordes, using women as slaves…
People were created to be loved. Things were created to be used. The reason why the world is in chaos is because things are being loved, and people are being used. But standing up and speaking out for what is…
‘But if your money is kept in a wallet, wouldn’t it be safer?’ ‘You don’t see people chucking their money around!’ This is a metaphor which reduces a woman’s value from human to an object. I come from an Indian…
she has her father’s hands filled with soft oceans. to sleep i would lay next to him listening to The Voice of Peace salt-water-air filling the room as i wrapped my small hands around his (my body a fraction…
I’m sure most of you have heard about the horrific terrorist attack in Manchester city centre on Monday night. A suicide bomber targeted fans leaving an Ariana Grande concert at the MEN Arena with a nail bomb. So far, there…
Do you not hear the sound of hope falling? It shatters as it hits the ground It clinks, it clanks Do you know what words sound like as they disappear? It is a backwards whisper An uncomfortable removal of syllable,…
I remember my entire first week of university, because I spent the majority of it terrified and rushing to go back to the comfort zone that was my bedroom. Why am I always the only black student in all of my…
‘Where are you from?’ ‘I grew up here, actually.’ ‘No, but where are you really from? Like really?’ I pause and take an uncomfortable look around. ‘Well, my ethnicity is Afghani.’ A short silence usually follows the last part of…
Irony, satire, and even political slapstick are facing extinction. Everyday an item that should be a headline in the Onion is a New York Times lede. It’s hard to keep up with either the domestic or foreign news. On the…
I was six. Thoughts of a new house delighted me more than anything else ever had. New rooms, a new garden! New crevices to explore and hide in with my sister. It was not really going to be ours, we were…
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