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Category: Islam

August 7, 2022 maryahc

Tisha B’Av and Muharram in Gaza

March 20, 2022 maryahc

What’s Nowruz? Persian New Year marks Equinox

September 16, 2021May 31, 2021 maryahc

“Becoming Bedouin” Again

October 15, 2020November 16, 2021 maryahc

“Cold Comfort” returns

June 15, 2020 maryahc

“Sid Ismahan’s Brothers and Daughters”

June 12, 2020June 15, 2020 maryahc

“Halfway ‘Cross the World: Pandemic Missives”

April 26, 2020April 22, 2020 maryahc

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

August 11, 2019August 20, 2020 maryahc

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

June 1, 2019June 3, 2020 maryahc

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

May 24, 2019May 16, 2020 maryahc

Ramadan: A Time for Coming Together

April 15, 2019June 3, 2020 maryahc

“That Other Hijab Story” redux

March 15, 2019March 15, 2019 maryahc

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

January 21, 2019January 19, 2019 maryahc

Kafir? Heathen? Shaytan?

September 23, 2018 maryahc

“Panic Attacks”

September 12, 2018 maryahc

Peace at the Head of the Year

September 5, 2018September 24, 2018 maryahc

“Terrorist Alert” Reprint

August 21, 2018 maryahc

Trust and Sacrifice

June 16, 2018 maryahc

Eid Sa’eed: Feast Tales

May 27, 2018 maryahc

American Ramadan: a media sampling

May 14, 2018 maryahc

Violence on the Eve of Ramadan

January 14, 2018 maryahc

“Cold Comfort”

December 11, 2017December 13, 2017 maryahc

“Feast Days / أيام الأعياد”

October 20, 2017August 21, 2021 maryahc

"Becoming Bedouin: Daughter, Teacher, Sister"

September 2, 2017June 3, 2020 maryahc

Blessed Feast of the Sacrifice!

July 9, 2017January 13, 2019 maryahc

on the BLYNKT podcast

June 26, 2017July 9, 2017 maryahc

StorySlam: Students Hate You. Till They Don’t 

May 27, 2017 maryahc

Ramadan kareem!

May 24, 2017March 9, 2018 maryahc

"Say Praise God"

April 30, 2017May 15, 2020 maryahc

More "Peace of Iraq’s Mothers"

April 20, 2017May 15, 2020 maryahc

"Snapshots of the Globalized Generation"

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