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Category: Islam

August 7, 2022 Maryah

Tisha B’Av and Muharram in Gaza

March 20, 2022 Maryah

What’s Nowruz? Persian New Year marks Equinox

September 16, 2021April 21, 2024 Maryah

“Becoming Bedouin” Again

October 15, 2020November 16, 2021 Maryah

“Cold Comfort” returns

June 15, 2020 Maryah

“Sid Ismahan’s Brothers and Daughters”

June 12, 2020June 15, 2020 Maryah

“Halfway ‘Cross the World: Pandemic Missives”

April 26, 2020April 22, 2020 Maryah

Fast, Feast and Loneliness in a Time of COVID: Check in extra with your Muslim friends

August 11, 2019August 20, 2020 Maryah

Reflections on Sacrifice: Tish B’Av and Eid al-Adha

June 1, 2019June 3, 2020 Maryah

The Love Story at the Heart of Ramadan’s Night of Power

May 24, 2019May 16, 2020 Maryah

Ramadan: A Time for Coming Together

April 15, 2019June 3, 2020 Maryah

“That Other Hijab Story” redux

March 15, 2019March 15, 2019 Maryah

Today, Muslims in Your City Will Be Afraid (and Angry, Too)

January 21, 2019January 19, 2019 Maryah

Kafir? Heathen? Shaytan?

September 23, 2018 Maryah

“Panic Attacks”

September 12, 2018 Maryah

Peace at the Head of the Year

September 5, 2018September 24, 2018 Maryah

“Terrorist Alert” Reprint

August 21, 2018 Maryah

Trust and Sacrifice

June 16, 2018 Maryah

Eid Sa’eed: Feast Tales

May 27, 2018 Maryah

American Ramadan: a media sampling

May 14, 2018 Maryah

Violence on the Eve of Ramadan

January 14, 2018 Maryah

“Cold Comfort”

December 11, 2017December 13, 2017 Maryah

“Feast Days / أيام الأعياد”

October 20, 2017August 21, 2021 Maryah

"Becoming Bedouin: Daughter, Teacher, Sister"

September 2, 2017June 3, 2020 Maryah

Blessed Feast of the Sacrifice!

July 9, 2017January 13, 2019 Maryah

on the BLYNKT podcast

June 26, 2017July 9, 2017 Maryah

StorySlam: Students Hate You. Till They Don’t 

May 27, 2017 Maryah

Ramadan kareem!

May 24, 2017March 9, 2018 Maryah

"Say Praise God"

April 30, 2017May 15, 2020 Maryah

More "Peace of Iraq’s Mothers"

April 20, 2017May 15, 2020 Maryah

"Snapshots of the Globalized Generation"

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