By Guest BloggerAll minorities in America know what it’s like to be stereotyped. Whether it’s due to their race, religion, or something else, anyone who is “different” gets categorized in certain negative ways, and even mistreated at times. Unfortunately, people who fall under multiple minority groups have to deal with this prejudice even more. [These women] also break stereotypes…
By Guest BloggerI like to write. I like to write from the heart. Being a writer at Muslim Girl has helped me tap into my talent of writing and has become a favorite activity of mine. I often get suggestions on what to write from my friends and colleagues and I like to write for other people…
By Guest BloggerWritten by Fatima Mohammadi Let me be blunt: Muslims are under attack – not just abroad, but here in the United States and across the Western world. This is not news to Muslims, but has seemingly caught just about everyone else off guard – even given the election cycle we’ve collectively [barely] survived. This new…
By Guest BloggerWritten by Amani Jabbar. I was raised to be a fighter. I learned early on that if I wanted my fair share of things, I had to toughen up. If I didn’t, my needs would be ignored. It was instilled in me that this world was for the strong, the brave, those who didn’t give…
By Guest BloggerWritten by Sarah Ghanem Being restricted to modest dressing seems to limit the outfit options for hijabis, as compared to other ladies. However, the truth is that all you need is a little creativity to transform even the most ordinary daily garments into the most amazing ones. Opt for Different Hijab Styles It can’t get…
By Guest BloggerWritten by Muslim Girl Staff Writer, Kaitlin Abdelrahman Less than two weeks ago on Feb. 22, 2017, the police in a suburban Kansas town responded to a shooting at a local favorite, Austin’s Bar and Grill. Three residents of Olathe, Kansas, Srinivas Kuchibhotla, 32, Alok Madasani, 32 and Ian Grillot, 24, were shot by a man…
By Guest BloggerWritten by Patricia Darwish My daughter Medina, wrote me this poem, her only way to express her feelings during my treatment that gave me the fuel I needed to continue the battle. Making of a Queen She lost it all, when she had it all; the love, the money, the beauty. And now she lays…
By Guest BloggerWritten by Muslim Girl Staff Writer, Nermeen Ileiwat On Wednesday, the first Vogue Arabia cover was revealed. There was an instant reaction, mostly positive, but also negative. Vogue Arabia is a major step in legitimizing and expanding the fashion industry that has been developing in the Middle East for quite some time. The magazine had already…
By Guest BloggerWritten by Candee Rue. “I’m actually a Christian, but if I weren’t, is that really how you would treat me as a Muslim?” This sentence would be the catalyst to my journey in seeing and understanding Islam and Muslim women and men in a different, more accurate way. In 2013, I put on hijab…
By Guest BloggerContribution by Maryam Halima Khan. Follow her on Twitter at @MazHalima. Channel 4 is set to air a three-part series called “Extremely British Muslims,” and British believers of the faith winced at the thought of yet another stereotypical show. I changed my mind when I watched Part 2 of the documentary, titled “Boys to Men.”…
By Guest BloggerWritten by Agnes Fischer. I believe our differences strengthen us, not our similarities. We lose our fear of each other when we gain insight into the lives of people unlike us, so I decided to launch The Solidarity 365 Project, where I’m featuring one Muslim a day for 365 days. This portrait series is…
By Guest BloggerSubmitted by Lela Ali. Dear Mama, Baba, Khalto, 3amo, Tunt, and the rest of my beloved Arab Muslim community, Anti-Blackness in our community is real and it is something we have to address! Black lives have to matter to all of us. Black people are our friends, our coworkers, our teachers, our family, our…
By Guest BloggerWritten by Rahaf Khatib. It all started with an Instagram post on Oct. 19, 2016 on my page @runlikeahijabi — I had expressed to my 8,000+ followers my dream. Certainly, any marathoners dream, to run the oldest most prestigious marathon in the world, the creme de la creme of all marathons, The Boston Marathon. Having…
By Guest BloggerWritten by Patricia Darwish. Good morning, ugly. Yes that’s what I said to myself each morning as I looked in the mirror. Harsh, right? Well, that was my reality. By my second chemo treatment, my hair started to fall out and there was nothing I could do to stop it. I had bald spots…
By Guest BloggerThere’s a lot that goes on behind closed doors which we don’t acknowledge. One of these things is pornography consumption and addiction, especially when it comes to women. The Stats Many people automatically relate porn to men, but they are definitely not the only consumers of pornographic material. At least 1 in 3 Internet porn viewers…
