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Arab stereotypes are true, just not the ones you think
An interlude for laughter
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Tell me you have boys
from girl-sister to boy-mom, part two
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Highlights from the Silk Road Lit Fest
and my full, full heart.
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Why I won't call him Mo: thoughts on soccer star Mohamed Salah and the most common name in the world
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Tell me you have sisters
from girl-sister to boy-mom, part one
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The cake that got away (and other delicious things I ate in Montreal)
I like to think that I lived a cosmopolitan life in Montreal.
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12 Posts from 12 Months of Letters from a Muslim Woman
Hello and Salaams, my friends!
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Alice Munro, CanLit, and Double Consciousness
Update: Several weeks after I published this post, Alice Munro’s daughter, Andrea Skinner, told the world of the fact that her stepfather had sexually…
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Why I can't go back to where I came from
About 10 days ago, a very cool thing happened to me, followed almost immediately by an awful thing.
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Minority Eid Report
Letters from a Muslim Woman is an email newsletter exploring the joys and challenges of life as a Muslim woman.
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Insha Allah vs. Masha Allah - a Guide to Muslim Vernacular
If you’ve spent any time around a group of English speaking Muslims, you may have noticed that our sentences are peppered with Arabic phrases.
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Memories of my mother's father
On tokens and ceremony, and whether they can cross the ocean
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