By Fatima ZaidiIn 1994, Nazma Khan, with several members of her family, made the grueling and life-changing journey of leaving their lives behind in Bangladesh in hopes of starting a new life in America. Khan recalls her father’s hard work, who used to sell newspapers on the street to find a living space that would accommodate up…
By MG StaffIn western societies, instead of tapping into practicing cultural humility, the mainstream makes negative assumptions about, and even criminalize, Muslim women who wear burkas and veils. The catch is that with the prevailing norm is that people don’t try to take cultural differences as opportunities for them to learn and grow. Instead, they start to…
By “And say to the believing women they should lower their gaze and guard their private parts and do not expose their beauty,” Quran 24:31. Reassurance is something we chase without realizing it: being noticed, handed a compliment, words of affirmation, appreciation – all of these do a lot for us. Looking into the mirror,…
By ShannonWomen who don the veil have always been an interesting subject to the general unveiled public. The unveiled want to know why these women cover and what kind of lives they lead. But this may be the first time someone actually thought to ask the question — how do they see? Hassan Ammar, a photographer…
