By Guest BloggerIn honor of #WallahBro Wednesday, here is a round-up of the top 10 #WallahBro tweets and memes that had us sisters clutching our sides with laughter, or rolling our eyes in utter sarcasm: 1. Can someone please explain what a girl from Jannah even looks like?! #WallahBro 2. The pain these men go through. Honestly,…
By Guest BloggerGather around the campfire, #MuslimGirlClique, as we countdown to Halloween with the spookiest stories our girl gang has to offer! Check back on the daily to jump in fright to a new story every day… I must have been four. It was the year before I started kindergarten, and my brother was already in the…
By Guest BloggerDolkis, ghajaras, yellow and pink dust in the air, Laughter of mothers and aunts, cousins and nieces. Glimpse of happiness, Turns to sudden fears of the unknown, Decorated eyes looking up in desperation, The green glitter is dim but still shines, Torn and beaten with age, you can still make out the unfamiliar words secured…
By Guest BloggerThis is difficult to write and a sensitive topic to write about, but I do so to connect with any reader who has been through something similar, and for the brokenhearted who choose to sit with their pain sober to get through it (honestly, you’re strong as ever if you choose to confront the pain)….
By Guest BloggerGather around the campfire, #MuslimGirlClique, as we countdown to Halloween with the spookiest stories our girl gang has to offer! Check back on the daily to jump in fright to a new story every day… In a small village, whose name has been lost in the recesses of time, there was a Quran teacher. An…
By Guest BloggerOver the past few months, the world watched in horror as a brutal family separation policy adopted by the U.S government tore children away from the arms of their desperate parents. Recently, the Chinese government began to implement a similar strategy. In early August this year, news spread about China’s “re-education” camps for Uighurs, a…
By Guest BloggerGather around the campfire, #MuslimGirlClique, as we countdown to Halloween with the spookiest stories our girl gang has to offer! Check back on the daily to jump in fright to a new story every day… You know that feeling when you awaken to consciousness from deep sleep, but you’re still in that foggy semi-unaware state-of-mind?…
By Guest BloggerTill We Cover embraces modesty through urban expression, and are passionate about social inclusion. The campaign #bornfromwarriors is centered around inclusivity, and a generation standing together. A generation who are now worriers, yet this generation came from a generation of warriors, who came to new shores with nothing but themselves. We worked with three spoken…
By Guest BloggerIn much of the Arab world, an archaic, unjust set of laws still exist. Known as mechanisms for modern-day slavery, kafala (visa sponsorship) laws are practiced with little regard for the safety of those most oppressed under these rules: migrant domestic workers. These workers are forbidden from leaving or changing employers in the country without their sponsor’s…
By Guest BloggerA Muslim woman just won over $4,000 in a Swedish court after it ruled a company discriminated against her because she refused to shake a man’s hand. But the labor court ruled that the company couldn’t force a Muslim employee to shake hands as a greeting if it compromised their religious beliefs, as long as…
By Guest BloggerNia Wilson and her two sisters were headed home from a family event on Sunday night, by way of Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART), when they were faced with what can only be described as a nightmare. A 27-year old white man by the name of John Cowell stabbed the sisters in an attack that…
By Guest BloggerSaudi women have won, after so long, the basic right to drive. This is an amazing victory, but it is also a litmus test for the pacing of equality. It is a small step up a steep mountain of which I may never get to see the summit. Has progress always been so slow? In…
By Guest BloggerDating as a Muslim? Can Muslims date? What even is dating nowadays!? These questions are sadly often neglected and shoved under rug in the name of religion. Yet, in the safety of their rooms and under their soft blanket, Muslim women of all ages are turning to one another for the answers. I recall many…
By Guest BloggerThis morning, the Supreme Court ruled to uphold Donald Trump’s travel ban, knocking down a decision in the ninth-circuit which found that the ban violated immigration law and the Establishment Clause of the US Constitution. The decision, a hallmark 5-4 vote, found that the ban is “squarely within the scope of Presidential authority.” Essentially, the Supreme…
By Guest BloggerI measure my life in Ramadans: How I see myself before Ramadan, and how I am after Ramadan. Who I am closer to, what directions do I get pulled into? Last year, I had a health scare. I felt a knot in my chest and the doctors thought they found something abnormal, but couldn’t give…
