Ramadan is very dear to me. Ramadan 2013 in particular is when I started wearing the hijab. Ramadan brings ease to my heart which in recent years has seen its fair share of pain. As many of you know, I suffer from anxiety and depressive bipolar. Anxiety has ruled my life in many ways.
Read MoreProductivity never comes naturally (well for me it never did). It takes perseverance, patience and most of all self-control. What productivity entails is doing a set of tasks within a reasonable amount of time without much distraction in order to utilize the time saved for other projects.
Read MoreIt has been a week since citizens from 7 Muslim-majority countries saw themselves unable to enter the US. Many of whom who are dual-citizens, relatives visiting for weddings, ill parents etc. These 7 countries are all countries that the US has meddled in before; subsequently causing unrest and/or civil war in these nations.
Read MoreMy hijab story is quite a unique one thus I will start the story prior to when I first wore it. I was born almost 22 years ago in the hustle and bustle of downtown Toronto to loving parents. My father, an Egyptian immigrant to Canada was raised Muslim while my mother, a Canadian by birth was raised Anglican Christian and converted to Islam 8 months prior to my birth.
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