“Sara, I could never get with a Muslim girl, how do they make you guys so unattainable?” a womanizing co-worker once asked me in all seriousness. There is nothing that I love more than a man that sees “ethnic” women as another check mark on an international bingo card.  I’ve heard a number of men […]

At the heart of many of the problems plaguing Muslim women in developing nations is a dollar bill, not a Qur’an. That was the overall impression I received from reading last Sunday’s Times Magazine. The issue of women in developing nations may not appear to be an impending issue for the Muslim community. In fact, […]

My name is Sara Yasin, and I am from North Carolina. I am off to London to be a poor graduate student, studying Gender, Development, and Globalization at the London School of Economics. I have a pretty eclectic range of interests, from fashion and art, to science, and of course, politics and women’s issues. I […]