-- The Meaning of Allahu Akbar - Mehreen Kasana, Hazlitt, Feb. 9, 2017 ( Read more... )

-- There is no such thing as western civilisation - Kwame Anthony Appiah, The Guardian, Nov. 9, 2016 ( Read more... )

I'd long wondered how to write about Ramadan or even if I should. One aspect of the self-restraint I've been hoping to cultivate during this month has been with regards to pride, to nurture a humility that keeps one from broadcasting one's virtuous endeavors. Look at this holy thing I'm doing! But I have been bettered by reflecting on things, have ( Read more... )

Not in a long time have I had to so forcefully and mercilessly interrogate my own motives for doing something as I have this past week. Doing this thing that I'm on the precipice of doing, that I will have officially started doing the night of June 5th, has forced me to realize that serious endeavors are the result of more than mere kink. ( Read more... )

As I type this, I’m on the red-themed Metro-North out of New Haven, bound for Grand Central. As Mom has chosen to fill the free time that attends an empty nest with work, she has spent the weekend in the hospital, engaging the human monstrosity, as one is wont to do on Mother’s Day. Still fresh in my mind are the magnificent fight scenes from ( Read more... )

-- When Europe Loved Islam - Marya Hannun, Sophie Spaan, Foreign Policy, May 5, 2016 ( Read more... )

-- Writing While Muslim: The Freedom to Be Offended - Rafia Zakaria, Los Angeles Review of Books, May 8, 2015 ( Read more... )