Islam

Will young reformers of Islam please stand up?

The Dead and the Dying

Death has been following me around lately.

It’s difficult to explain. But I’ve been feeling his presence a lot more these days. Lurking around. Waiting.

A friend of mine didn’t wake up a couple of weeks ago. Dead at 29. I’d just spent…

I’m tired of hijab.

When I was 19, I stood on stage and talked about being propositioned by a university professor. I said he was a dirty old man and repeated some of the choice phrases women hear every day in the streets of Egypt.