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May 16·edited May 16Liked by Noha Beshir

We found each other via your post on Inner life that I own with Sam Kahn and Joshua Doležal. So glad you joined us there and I now know that Joshua found you. Kudos to him for that. I hope to connect more deeply with you. ~ Mary

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I would absolutely love that, Mary. I've been admiring you from afar - both with your memoir and with your series with Eleanor. It would be my pleasure to connect more deeply.

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Thankful to Writers At Work for leading me to your writing, Noha. I’m very excited to learn by your lens the joys and aches of the hijabi experience.

My husband reverted to Islam after our son was born. We have been together since 2010- he reverted 2020. I’ve been both striving and struggling through the changes and I feel your compassion will be so helpful for me to learn and understand how to be a more supportive partner to him on this journey.

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You are so welcome here, Kaylen. Look around and if you find you have questions that haven't been answered, I'm happy to answer things directly. I'm also collecting questions for an AMA post (anonymous or otherwise) in case you have any for me.

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I’m glad I found you. I have very little understanding of Muslim faith and culture and I look forward to reading about your experiences and learning!

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Stephanie! Thank you for being here. I'm honoured to have you along. Feel free to ask me anything you want to know more about and I'll do my best.

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I am also a Muslim hijab wearing woman living in USA , read your “letters from a Muslim Woman , very impressed by your work. I have to start writing , gathering ideas and topics to write . InshaAllah one of these days .

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Thank you so much Yasmeen.

Let me know if you start on Substack - I’d love to read what you have to say here too! We need as many hijab writers as we can get (and my niece is a Yasmeen as well 🥰)

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Happy to read your experience as a Moslem woman and identifying each experiences as something that I had gone through in the past living in the midwest and upstate NY years ago. Happy, feeling blessed and free to adorn my hijab wherever I go despite some pressures to conform and regarded as strange or a nun. Looking forward to reading more ❤️

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