Our new book, Salaam, Love: American Muslim Men on Love, Sex & Intimacy, will be released on February 4th. In the lead up to the release, meet our 22 contributors. Today, meet Yusef Ramelize! An excerpt from Yusef’s story, “Who I Needed to Be”: “Sometimes a father’s love goes way beyond the words and the things that his children might see,” my mom said with tears in her eyes. “Everyone has a different way of expressing love. Of course, some ways... Read more
She has another dream. In this one, she can see the tarmac from the small eyes of a plane and it feels mundane, no different from the dozens of flights that have preceded it. But when the plane takes off, she finds herself suddenly outside the cabin, clinging to a rope that is twisted through a metal loop on the wing. She is curling her body to brace against the buffeting of violent air, and the moon above is maddeningly... Read more
Our new book, Salaam, Love: American Muslim Men on Love, Sex & Intimacy, will be released on February 4th. In the lead up to the release, meet our 22 contributors. Today, meet Ibrahim Al-Marashi! An excerpt from Ibrahim’s story, “The Other Iran-Iraq War”: The morning after first seeing the Iranian checkout girl, I awoke feeling very scholarly. I scanned the course catalogue, looking for another class to add on to my schedule. But what would I take? How about Introduction to... Read more
Love, InshAllah & Salaam, Love editor Ayesha Mattu had a fun and wide-ranging conversation today with HuffPostLive’s Yasmine Hafiz, Alyona Minkovski, and Ahmed Shihab-Eldin (aka, “Mr. May”, pictured above) on shifting & complicating the narrative about American Muslims and what REALLY makes a person hot & pinup-worthy. Thanks to all of our wonderful readers who joined the conversation! If you missed it, catch it online, here. Read more
We wanted to let the www.patheos.com/blogs/loveinshallah community know of an extraordinary opportunity to join acclaimed professor and author Omid Safi this May on a tour to beautiful Turkey. Dr. Safi’s educational tours provide you with an intimate, insider’s look at the rich legacy of Islam and Sufism in Turkey through arts, religion, history, and spirituality. The tour begins in Istanbul and reaches its zenith in Konya, home of the incomparable Sufi poet Rumi, where you will explore the legacy of the... Read more
Our new book, Salaam, Love: American Muslim Men on Love, Sex & Intimacy, will be released on February 4th. In the lead up to the release, meet our 22 contributors. Today, meet Ahmed Akbar! An excerpt from Ahmed’s story, “A Pair of Photos”: In my teenage and college years, I tried dating. I did my best to impart Islamic ethics onto my relationships, but still, I felt guilty. I debated whether dating was inherently wrong and if it was my only... Read more
On a cold New York night in a dimly lit dive in the Lower East Side, I went on eighteen dates in exactly ninety minutes. A close friend from college forwarded me an e-mail with details about a South Asian Muslim speed dating event. With the curiosity of an amateur anthropologist and the idealism of a single girl hoping to finally meet a guy to take home to her parents, I decided to sign up and walked into the evening... Read more
Our new book, Salaam, Love: American Muslim Men on Love, Sex & Intimacy, will be released on February 4th. In the lead up to the release, meet our 22 contributors. Today, meet Zain Omar! An excerpt from Zain’s story, “AwkwardMan”: I often think awkwardness is my superpower. No one else I know has such a deft way of turning an ordinary situation into a hot mess of confusion and apprehension… I like to think that AwkwardMan could be a new superhero—maybe... Read more
It’s 6 o’clock in the morning and though the house is still and dark, I am awake. It is the way it is these days. As much as I want to hibernate like a bear storing up my unconscious hours like an extra padding of fat for the coming months ahead when a little one will be waking me up every few hours, I can’t. I treasure my sleep. I adore my sleep. I could sing odes, sonnets, and serenade... Read more
Our new book, Salaam, Love: American Muslim Men on Love, Sex & Intimacy, will be released on February 4th. In the lead up to the release, meet our 22 contributors. Today, meet Yousef Turshani! An excerpt from Yousef’s story, “An Unlikely Foe”: Each time I’d been in a serious relationship, I wanted to include my parents. They accepted that I wasn’t eager to be “set up” with a family friend, as is the norm in Libya. They didn’t want to show... Read more
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