In 2012, Ayesha Mattu and Nura Maznavi released Love, InshAllah – The Secret Love Lives of American Muslim Women, hoping to spur a “more compassionate and respectful intra-faith dialogue” about relationship complexities within the Muslim community.
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Hollywood actress Scarlett Johansson (Captain America, Lost in Translation) just announced that she is stepping down from her 8-year role as Oxfam Ambassador due to pressure from the organization to stop supporting SodaStream, a company whose factories operate illegally in Israeli settlements in occupied Palestine territories.
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In today’s AskM column, M responds to two women: one who is struggling to with find a husband while having a sexual history, and one who feels overshadowed by her sister.
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Following on the heels of Mindy Kaling’s black-and-white Elle cover controversy is Lupita Nyong’o’s Vanity Fair cover debate. Within minutes of these two images being released, one Twitter user after another began to point out that these fashion magazines had lightened the skin color of their cover girls.
Read MoreResolutions are common in January as many try to improve some aspect of their life. Since my birthday is in January, for me, this time of year is one of reflections as well as resolutions. I will turn thirty-nine this month and today I look back on the last ten years as the most meaningful and demanding decade.
Read MoreAs we commence the New Year, with our get-healthy New Year’s resolutions in tow, it’s perhaps appropriate that one of altMuslimah’s latest feature pieces is an interview with Zainab Ismail, the Vice President of Nadoona.
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In today’s AskM column, M gives advice to two women: one who cannot stop thinking about the past, and another who is learning how to find a partner on her own.
Read MoreThe latest news regarding the arrest of Indian Acting Consul Devyani Khobragade in New York for visa fraud concerning her maid is one of the hottest scandals of the hour. Reports of a strip search of Khobragade leading to the removal of security barriers of the U.S. embassy in India are all amounting to some major hostility between the two nations.
Read MoreTyphoon Haiyan cut a path across eastern and central Philippines on November 8; I listened to the somber voices of news reporters as they described the chaos and despair that follows a disaster of this magnitude. Disheveled looking survivors would pop up on the screen for a minute or two, having been asked by the news stations to share their stories.
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