I'm looking at my window right now and it's a perfect blue sky. And if you ask people about Sept. 11, the one thing they'll tell you is how serenely,….

It's been nineteen days since I've had a suicidal impulse. One of the things that pulls me back is I think to myself, and as a Muslim, I believe that….

Humour is a way of relating and connecting to people, especially when you're a minority or misunderstood. It has the power that other forms of conver….

There is a dearth of imagination and I think that's an understatement in a modern Muslim world. There is very little willingness to imagine different….

There are times when I think being bipolar gives me the ability to see and want and write things that other people cannot and do not. One of those is….

If you are an American Muslim, you live in a community that is really struggling to get its feet off the ground. We're a very young community, so to ….

There are companies like Facebook that wield tremendous power over how Americans understand the world. Do they have a social responsibility now? That….

I think growing up, we always try to make sense of who we are, what we go through, and I grew up in a very religious household. I interpreted what wa….

I think that every individual is a microcosm of the culture that they're born into. They reflect the anxieties, insecurities, and strengths of that c….

There are three stories that are foundational to the Islamic narrative in which women, and in two of the three cases, single women, are not just part….

I was raised with this consciousness of being part of this global Muslim community. At the same time, I didn't even know if I wanted to be Muslim. It….

There are so many stories that need to be told and are not being told. We tend to want to put things in boxes: "This is a memoir about a Muslim," or ….

The one thing that's missing from the 9/11 Memorial & Museum, and I don't imagine we'll see it any time soon, is that there's no memorial to the hund….

The Transportation Security Administration has probably converted more people to Islam than any religious order in the last 100 years. It doesn't mat….

After September 11 there was feeling obligated to respond, and allow other people to set the terms of the conversation. There was this ritualistic co….

Writing something down and processing it, sitting with a text and a story, editing and rewriting new drafts - that entire process helps clarify somet….

You aim comedy up. If comedy is aimed down, you're a jerk. You laugh at the powerful as a way of bringing them down to your level or bring yourself u….

What I want is to talk about how someone raised Muslim struggles with the same stuff that everyone else theoretically could. Obviously, the particula….

When I was growing up, we often heard Islam in the form of a slogan: "Islam is the solution," but no one ever told me that Islam can be a burden... V….

I have no expertise of other religious traditions so I'm not going to opine on them, but in Islam the more you know about the religion, the more like….

My initial fear was that Trump would be something in the order of an American fascist, be militaristic and aggressive. My take on it after the first ….