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Grappling with my Muslim Identity during Ramadan


Posted by sarabi on 13 Jun 2018 / 0 Comments
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Like Tasnim, I’m going through Ramadan in a relatively new and unfamiliar city. Though I’ve stumbled a few times, my fears have not entirely come to pass and I reached the halfway point with the intention to complete the remaining fasts. Generally, Ramadan is a lonely experience for me. I don’t have a Muslim family […]

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Ramadan 2017

The Unseen, the All-Omniscient and Ramadan


Posted by eren on 12 Jun 2017 / 0 Comments
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This year, I started Ramadan at the wedding of one of my childhood best friends. I jumped the hoops of border politics to be there at what will probably be one of the last Mexican weddings I will ever attend. After a decade of living in diaspora, it is just natural that my path is […]

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Books/Magazines

Book Review: Jasmine Falling


Posted by sarabi on 18 May 2016 / 0 Comments
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Jasmine Falling by Muslimah Media Watch’s very own Shereen Malherbe recounts the story of Jasmine, a young English girl who, in order to receive her inheritance after her mother dies, searches for her father in his native Palestine and winds up discovering not only the family she left behind, but also the culture to which […]

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Culture/Society

The H Word: A Piece of Cloth Loaded with More Than It Can Bear?


Posted by yasmeen on 12 Sep 2013 / 2 Comments
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I have to admit that hijab narratives in media turn me off. Whether because it is exhaustively discussed or because most of these narratives rely heavily on clichés and fallacies, hijab is a subject that seems to me overloaded with notions that are not related in any way to what I see as the core […]

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The Ramadan Blues


Posted by eren on 05 Aug 2013 / 1 Comment
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Since my conversion to Islam, I have spent every Ramadan in Canada. My Ramadans are often filled with the fasting experience and sumptuous iftars in my local mosque, as well as visiting fellow converts, for whom Ramadan can be a very lonely experience. This year was different. My life is currently in flux, first because […]

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The Burkha Rapper: Sophie Ashraf


Posted by sobia on 24 Jun 2009 / 0 Comments
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Sophie Ashraf, also known as The Burkha Rapper, is an Indian Muslim female rapper for whom Muslim identity seems central to her art. This comes across clearly in her following statement on the Blind Boys website: Its like when you really like a band, you wear T-shirts of that band, Well we really, really like […]

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Looking at Sarah from Little Mosque


Posted by Krista Riley on 20 Oct 2008 / 0 Comments
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The third season of Little Mosque on the Prairie has just started up, so I figured it was time to have a discussion about it. Actually, I’ll be honest and admit that really, the reason I’m talking about it is that I wrote a paper on it for a class on popular culture last week, […]

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The Maple Effect: Sarah Maple’s Art


Posted by muslimahmediawatch on 14 Oct 2008 / 0 Comments
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I’ve always loved viewing art, especially at museums, though I’ve never considered myself savvy enough to ‘get it,’ always resorting to a laywoman’s interpretation. However, I’ve learned that regardless of what the artist intended in his/her piece, the observer/viewer/art connoisseur will see what s/he wants. Therefore, art can be a very controversial arena for expressing […]

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