admiration , murder

because the “alfiyyah”, it’s really a high school level text. it isn’t meant for advanced students. graduating from azhar 200 years ago was meant to equip students to debate with sibawayh. now people read the “ajrumiyyah” and tell me they want to understand qur’anic arabic with it. habibi, you aren’t going to understand the qur’an [...]

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of frustration made

being a muslim of the female persuasion at community events is often not a great position to occupy. “sisters” get shunted to the side, forgotten by speakers who address “the brothers”, sidelined or slotted into back rooms for jum’ah. one benefit of the arrangement that has the khutbah beamed through speakers, though, i am now [...]

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hagiograph

i watched into the wild with javed and noor weeks ago, and remain fascinated by the movie. he leaves everything, all that held and composed his life, to be alone. i felt certain aspects of the plot were overplayed – his parents’ deceptions didn’t need the emphasis they were granted; it was, after all, the [...]

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cartographies

sometime over past weeks i’ve forgotten how to write when aware of audience. not because of your existence as reader but because of the necessarily confessional nature of the blog, about the truths it affirms and assumes and those it refuses to acknowledge, those it cannot. which storylines to perpetuate, and for how long, becomes [...]

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