Why growing up in Saudi Arabia was awesome, and why I beg you not to go there
I was just reminiscing with Ali Rizvi about growing up in Saudi Arabia. We were foreigners, the children of expatriate workers. We lived in Saudi Arabia at different times; he is far older than I am, and he left in ’91 while I moved to Saudi in ’95. We walked …
Life After Kool-Aid
Can family be truly good without religion? Of all the things that religion claims to rescue from decay and corruption, the family figures pretty high on the list of the saved. Without religion, children would sprout dissociative identities along with body hair, cook meth in the basement and worship cthulhu. …
Oppressor–a poem
So some of you might know that my current primary academic field is creative writing. I’ve never been good at poetry; fiction has rather been my forte, mostly because of how difficult I find it to achieve conciseness of image. This I’ve worked on for a while though, a persona …
4 Mistakes You Make When You Talk About Islam
Hello folks! I want to start off by checking in and and telling you that I had an exciting weekend in Washington DC, where, along with some of my dear and brilliant fellow members in Muslimish and the Ex-Muslims of North America (EXMNA), I met with secular activists and leaders …