By NbA Muslims Team One of the main reasons why NbA Muslims founder, Layla Abdullah-Poulos launched this platform was to support and promote art, culture and social issues. “We should all be each other’s cheerleaders,” said Abdullah-Poulos during a Muslimah Writers summit interview. Under her pseudonym, Lyndell Williams, she had 3 short stories published in the collection Shades of BWWM. The anthology features stories involving Black women and White men as love interests. The stories touch multiple genres. her stories include… Read more

Original Source: Between Sisters, SVP EXPENDABLE: GROUNDBREAKING, UNPREDICTABLE, WELL-WRITTEN. DALLAS, TX — July 1st, 2018. DJARABI KITABS PUBLISHING officially released Expendable by American Author Sahar AbdulAziz. Although Expendable is her fifth novel being published, it has seniority over AdbulAziz’s timely and critically acclaimed political thriller titled Tight Rope. Simply said, Expendable was written before Tight Rope. And DJARABI KITABS PUBLISHING is honored to be the best home for this needed book as well. Read the press release to get more details about Tight… Read more

It’s the day after Eid-ul-Fitr 2018, and Muslim across the globe are probably still reeling from how quickly the blessed month of Ramadan came and went. Having fasted, prayed and trying to gather up as many good deeds as possible, Muslims donned some of their finest threads and headed for the Eid prayer and commenced to party. In addition to an awesome day with family and friends, I kept my eye on Instagram (I will be using the handles of the… Read more

Despite international appeal, the government of Sudan is preparing to execute 19-year-old Noura Hussein after she was convicted of killing her husband. Hussein was gang-raped by her husband and 3 of his male family members. When he attempted to sexually assault her again, Noura stabbed him in self-defense. Co-founder & Executive Director of HEART Women and Girls, Nadiah Mohajir joins Layla Abdullah-Poulos to talk about Noura Hussein, sexual abuse and criminalizing survivors. Tuesday 6/12/18 at 6 pm EST (5 pm… Read more