Asma Uddin to speak at Georgetown University Asma Uddin will speak on the topic “Islam & Gay Marriage in America” on September 9, 3:30-5:30 pm at Georgetown University’s Center for Contemporary Arab Studies boardroom. Asma is also the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of altmuslimah.com, a web magazine dedicated to issues on gender and Islam….
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[title maintitle=”” subtitle=”Lota: a small, usually spherical water vessel of brass, copper or plastic used in South Asia, the Middle East and parts of Africa to maintain personal hygiene.”] “I knew I should’ve put my lota in the safe,” I thought to myself, crestfallen. I had returned to my hotel room, a trying…
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“He is such a little Casanova.” I had to look up from my sandwich the third time a doting friend said this about the dashing three-year-old who had enamoured us — and the waitress — with his antics, dimples and a clear gift to hold an audience at a young…
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As a true 80s/90s child I grew up on admittedly inappropriate music. As a five-year-old, I sang along to Madonna’s “Like a Virgin,” (thank you MTV) and both my mother and I listened to ABBA, Donna Summer and Boney M. Those were my Western musical influences, but worse still were…
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A few hours after hitting its all-time stock price high today, Netflix has announced a new program for all employees. In a blog post, the company outlined its unlimited maternity and paternity leave program. Its Chief Talent Office, Tawni Cranz, said: At Netflix, we work hard to foster a “freedom and…
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On a daily basis, countless stereotypes about Muslim women are circulated on and offline. Richard Dawkins, the famous evolutionary biologist and prominent atheist, recently tweeted: “Islam needs a feminist revolution. It will be hard. What can we do to help?” Angered by Dawkins’ comments, many Muslim women responded. However, Dawkins’ comment is,…
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On Sunday, the Muslim Women’s Council had a public consultation on proposals for a women-only mosque in Bradford. It follows the opening of a women’s mosque in the US earlier this year. There are also plans for something similar in India. You would think that in a city where there…
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When a major company pollutes a city’s water with toxic chemicals and won’t clean up its mess, Nicki Minaj will be there to call them out. Or, at least her songs will be. Minaj’s “Anaconda” was the inspiration for Indian rapper Sofia Ashraf’s video spotlighting Unilever, a consumer products company that polluted…
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There’s a popular narrative that, as the centuries roll on, many ancient human evils, if not wholly eradicated, are at least in decline. Human sacrifice, slavery, ritual and genital mutilation, witchcraft accusations, torture — these things, the story goes, have become so stigmatized that they may never resurge once more….
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Recently, I had the pleasure of speaking with Zain Shamoon, Creative Outreach Director of the Muslim Mental Health Institute based in Michigan. He took a moment to talk about the innovative approaches he and his colleagues take with regard to mental health in their local Muslim community. atlM: So where…
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