Salam, everyone! My name is Sara, and I’m a recent graduate of The University of Texas at Austin. My family is of Indian descent, but my parents and grandparents all lived and grew up largely in East Africa, and I was born in Toronto, Canada. I lived in the Ivory Coast for a few years […]

Afshan Azad’s father and brother have been charged with attempting to murder her. The Independent profiles Muslim fashion designers. Syria bans school teachers from wearing niqab in the classroom. CNN examines fashion at a Malaysian Qur’an reading competition. A Nigerian Muslim women’s group has said that the political environment in the country is not conducive […]

June is exam time in North Africa. With some amusement, I read a link forwarded to me from an Algerian website about young women using their Bluetooths and hijab to cheat on their baccalaureate exams.  A quick Google search proved this was a pan-Maghreb thing, as Moroccan and Tunisian media has written on the subject. […]