This post was written by Guest Contributor Saira Mahmood. Follow Saira at @sairamhmd and through her personal blog. Pakistan has problems when it comes to safe, reliable and affordable transportation. In 1947, the country gained independence from British imperial rule and inherited a sprawling network of tram and railway lines that allowed reasonable public mobility for […]

This post was written by Guest Contributor Aisha Jamal. Aisha is a former features editor of the Saudi Gazette, and graduate of the London School of Economics. Last year, Saudi Arabia announced that it was finally going to allow Saudi women to drive. It was hailed as a watershed moment, the result of Saudi female […]

This post was written by Guest Contributor Rawiya, who is a university professor and a musician. “He who knows himself knows His Lord.” As an academic, my initial impulse is to authenticate my sources. Who uttered these words? Can we find a source to validate this phrase as “Islamic?” The above saying is disputed, attributed […]

This post was written by Guest Contributor Habeeba Husain. Habeeba blogs at My Future is at My  Finger Tips and tweets at @HabeebaHusain.    When a Rutgers University student finally found a seat on the campus’s usually overcrowded bus, she witnessed the Caucasian man next to her shoot her a dirty look and abandon his seat. “That […]

This post was written by Guest Contributor Saira Mahmood. Follow Saira at @sairamhmd and through her personal blog.   Noor Tagouri became the first Muslim woman in a hijab to be featured in Playboy in October of 2016. This was viewed by some people as a radical decision for a magazine that had earned its fame […]

This post was written by Guest Contributor Saffiyya Mohammed. Saffiyya tweets at @saffiyyam. Living in the Caribbean has its perks; and believe it or not, it also has its drawbacks. With our colonial past, it’s become a melting pot for people over the world, with societies comprised of African, Indian, Chinese, Middle Eastern, European and Indigenous peoples. […]

This post was written by Guest Contributor Habeeba Husain. Habeeba blogs at My Future is at My  Finger Tips and tweets at @HabeebaHusain.  After occupying a top floor unit in an abandoned Baltimore building for nearly a year, Asma Hanif got a bitter taste of what it’s like to be homeless. People living with addiction health issues […]

Editor’s Note: This piece was  originally posted by AltMuslim and written by Guest Contributors Nahida S. Nisa (@haraammermaids), Shehnaz Haqqani (@qrratugai) and Darakshan Raja (@DarakshanRaja). For past MMW pieces on Asra Nomani, see here, here, and here. After accusations of rape were made against Tariq Ramadan, Asra Nomani wrote an article for the New York Times parading an […]

This has been my first Ramadan without hijab since 1997. After wearing hijab for close to twenty years, last year, sometime in August, I finally started leaving the house every day without covering my hair. I say “sometime” because removing it was a gradual process. At some point that summer, when the last distant cousin […]

This post was written by Nadirah Angail (@NadirahAngail) and originally posted at her blog. Ya know, I’m not very familiar with Sheikh Hamza Yusuf. When I say “not very familiar,” I mean I used to think he was the guy who formerly went by the name Cat Stevens. (Embarrassing, I know.) So when it comes […]