My mother fled Somalia as soon as the war broke out. She left the land that held skies laden with views of the hidden night, and had seas a more pristine blue than anything I could imagine. She came to a foreign land where she was unwanted and unappreciated, and had to rebuild herself from scratch. And it was from thi...
In which a series of random encounters, meddling friends and family, and bizarre synchronicity work as catalysts towards the coming together of our hero and heroine. ~~~A Muslim love story ~~~ 'There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken.' Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Two weeks. Four students. Number one: Aarifah, with her endless struggles of maintaining a balance between her worldly and religious beliefs. Number two: Walid, with his un-ignorable past actions, and the consequences of these actions that haunt him to this day. Number three: Lexie, a girl who no matter how hard she...
Cringe alert* - First book of my life. Written in 2014. Needs massive rewrites. This is based on two real incidents: -> Air Canada Flight 143 aka The Gimli Glider that crash-landed at Gimli Industrial Park Airport on July 23, 1983. -> US Airways Flight 1549 that crash-landed into the Hudson river on January 15, 2009...
And as she stared at the items laid before her-a book, few pictures and a gold chain passed through her mother's ring-she found herself facing a dilemma. She wondered if she should mourn over what she had lost or if she should smile at how perfect her little family looked in those pictures. She was angry, enraged even...
The story of two people with a love-hate relationship, brought together by a book.
Do you drink your tea to the sound of animated yelling, exaggerated stories, simmering political debates, and your three hundred relatives running around? Are you interested in controversial topics surrounding the interaction between the West and Islam? Do you like debates? Do you like putting your opinion out there? ...
"The best of you are those who are best to their wives..." Entry for Muslims_Ink short story contest.
When Nazım was thirteen, he broke someone's nose because they had tripped him. When Nazım was fifteen, he got into frequent fights with the school bullies. When Nazım was seventeen, he was expelled from two schools. His life has always been something of a mess. And then things change when the nineteen year old fi...
#1 Action. "Promise me Cloud," Faith implored her voice barely audible. She lifted her gaze up at him yet once again. "Promise me, that you will protect my heart for it has deserted me for you." A silent hiss escaped the assassin's lips at her confession. "How can I mistreat your heart when my soul is in...