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Ramadan: How to Connect Even When You Can’t Fast
Dates and bread from the zawiya of Sheikh Muhammad Ibn al-Habib, may Allah sanctify his secret. It’s that time again, the month where Muslims empty their bodies during the day and try to clear their...
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Chromatography
The lowest arms of the almond tree hang scrawny, leafless, dark: a reminder of winter. I take off my paper sun hat sweating (why did I wear black?) sun bleached by a thin cloud veil pushing the...
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The Knowledge You Know Without Knowing You Know It
There is knowledge that is shy, dodges knowledge vampires with their ravenous jawed eyes and colander stomachs. This knowledge didn’t listen at school, doodled through every text book and watched the...
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Burkinis, Bling, and Criminally Bad Hairdos: Why Everyone Needs to Shut Up
Yesterday at a beach on the Granada coast, we plopped our towels and parasol down on the white pebbles next to a family from North Africa. It was one of those slightly awkward scenes, where I wanted...
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Hate Is No Substitute
Don’t touch me with that barge pole. The disease you fear in me might travel down your arm through the fibres of that deceased sliver of tree and burn a dot on my arm. Don’t squint at me through that...
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A Tiny Window in the Palace of Rahma
“A mercy to all the worlds”: Can you comprehend that? The world of rocks, of mushrooms, winds, seas, whales, mosquitos, jinn, trees, underground rivers bacteria, bears and ozone the dizzying...
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On Healing the Wrongs of White Ancestors and Why You Probably Don’t Want to...
Call me a lily-@$$ed bimbo, or a political correctness fascist, but I can’t use the term ‘non-white’ any more, and I can’t quite believe myself how long it’s taken to understand why. First of all,...
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Danger of Surfing While Muslim
No, I’m not talking about burkinis again…I’m talking about The real risk to heart and mental health posed by scrolling for hours through social media posts that, through the wonders of logarithms...
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Cartoon Squirrels: Why Kids’ TV is Where Feminism Goes to Die
We’ve got into a pretty bad habit with the TV this year. It’s a slippery slope: first only weekends, then a little at midday to let me make lunch in peace, then before we know it were having to hide...
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