• How I Learned to Accept Myself

    All throughout middle and high school, I was a nerd.  Let me correct this: I was a NERD. Capitalized, bolded, and italicized, n. e. r. d. Nerd.  Especially in middle school while I was adjusting to the different culture,…

  • Hijabi Life Struggles

    While hijab can do amazing things for social life around town – random Islam questions, anyone? – it can mean something completely different in our own Muslim communities.  Here I share with the struggles we hijabis go through in…

  • My Hijab Story

    A piece of cloth was a beginning of something beautiful.  I never thought in my life that I would wear hijab thinking it was only for the “most pious,” for those who knew the art of leaving the world…