Interested in becoming a therapist or advocate for social justice in the Muslim community? A degree in social work might be right for you. The majority of mental health providers in the United States have a degree in social work.[1] This means that a psychotherapist or counselor is more likely…
Read MoreThere is something significant about choosing where the ground you walk on every day will be. In the midst of a stormy and turbulent world, deciding where you will dwell – where the home in which you will try to raise your children to be upright, proud and righteous –…
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On Tues., Aug. 16, 2011 Nazish Noorani was shot and killed while on an afternoon stroll in the suburbs of Boonton, NJ. Nearly three and a half years after her death, a jury has found her husband, Kashif Parvaiz, guilty of her murder. Finally. Not that you’d know this if you’ve been…
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My name is Nadia Bazzy, and I’m a Marriage and Family Therapist…I’m passionate about people living to their fullest potential, healing wounds, and transforming relationships. Who are you? My name is Nadia Bazzy, and I’m a Marriage and Family Therapist. My family roots in the United States dates back…
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Like Divine Love, love for your spouse requires some extent of extinguishment of your “self”. Indeed, the very search for a husband teaches Shelina Zahra Janmohamed in her new book, Love in a Headscarf, her smallness in the larger landscape of the world. Love – with a lower-case “l” – happens when you just know that your partner is the person who completes you.
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With all the interest surrounding this month’s feature pieces on gender roles in marriage, Altmuslimah decided to take these issues directly to the Muslim community. Altmuslimah conducted its first poll at this past weekend’s MSA National’s East Zone Conference in Philadelphia, PA, to see how the next-in-line to-wed think.
Read MoreThis week, Afghan women take to the streets to oppose new marriage laws, the Saudi's begin to turn the law against unregulated child marriages, more from the Talibanized Swat Valley of Pakistan, and a Pink Eid in Amsterdam
Read MoreAfghanistan’s new law – one that essentially legalizes marital rape – is just one of a series of recent developments that undermines the rights of millions of women. In early April, a video turned up on the Internet of a 17-year old girl being mercilessly beaten in public by the Taliban in the Swat valley of the Northwest Frontier Province in Pakistan. But in response, politics comes first, and women second.
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Author Shelina Zahra Janmohamed sits down with us to discuss the issues brought up in her new book Love in a Headscarf, which documents Janmohamed's search for a partner in a landscaped blurred by culture clashes, mixed identities, and double standards.
Read MoreThis week, a Muslim high school student is awarded $350,000 after being harassed for wearing a hijab, and a study of European Muslim women finds that they tend to be highly integrated into the larger European society.
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