Sitemap - 2024 - Letters from a Muslim Woman

Arab stereotypes are true, just not the ones you think

Witness

They said motherhood would instantly fill me with love...

The World's Most Lethal Fighting Force

How to hold a baby (while cycling)

Tell me you have boys

The things I don't say

Highlights from the Silk Road Lit Fest

What taking the high road can cost marginalized groups

Why I won't call him Mo: thoughts on soccer star Mohamed Salah and the most common name in the world

Asynchronous Love in Broken Arabic

Tell me you have sisters

A bruised hijabi

The cake that got away (and other delicious things I ate in Montreal)

The places we circle above and never land

12 Posts from 12 Months of Letters from a Muslim Woman

Alone in my mind

Alice Munro, CanLit, and Double Consciousness

Substackers for Palestine Children's Relief: A fundraiser

On Grief and Graduation

Why I can't go back to where I came from

A Motherhood and Palestine Round Up

Voices in the mind, echoes in the body

Writing into the fear

Ode to Night Prayers (and Childhood)

Minority Eid Report

The Quran Still Speaks (to My Word-Loving Heart)

Plant the Sapling - dealing with hopelessness

Insha Allah vs. Masha Allah - a Guide to Muslim Vernacular

Finding solace in the reprimand: hearts as hard as rocks - or harder

Memories of my Mother's Father

To Be A Gazan During Ramadan

Farther from People, Closer to God: A Reflection on Socially Distant Ramadans

Well that didn't age well: The perils of revisiting old movies

Ask Me Where I'm From

Beauty in the Eye of the Hijabi

The Prophet's Sujood

It Takes More Than A Village

Why I can't go back to where I came from

How to keep a child safe

Voices in the mind, echoes in the body

A Motherhood and Palestine Round Up

What if, One day

Writing into the fear

Ode to Night Prayers (and Childhood)

Minority Eid Report

Plant the Sapling - dealing with hopelessness

Insha Allah vs. Masha Allah - a Guide to Muslim Vernacular

Bone Tired

Finding solace in the reprimand: hearts as hard as rocks - or harder

Memories of my mother's father

To be a Gazan during Ramadan

Farther from People, Closer to God: A Reflection on Socially Distant Ramadans

Love Notes on the Group Chat

Companion Piece for Paid Subscribers - The Quran Still Speaks (to my word-loving heart)

The Quran Still Speaks (to My Word-Loving Heart)

Well that didn't age well: The perils of revisiting old movies

Ask me where I'm from

Six Lives

Prone to Hyperbole is becoming Letters from a Muslim Woman

Letters from a Muslim Woman -Start Here

Beauty in the Eye of the Hijabi

It takes more than a village

Impressionable, Meet Contrarian.