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Originally posted on Love, InshAllah: Love, Inshallah is excited to debut our first podcast! LoveinshAllah.com editor Deonna Kelli Sayed recently interviewed author Michael Muhammad Knight about his new book, Tripping with Allah: Islam, Drugs, and Writing, where he discussed his spiritual use of the hallucinogenic plant, ayahuasca, and the struggles between his writing voice and…
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I’m trying to find myself. Cliched, I know. But bear with me. Here is the breakdown: Over the past 1 1/2 years, I’ve had to rebuild from a leaving a global marriage where I raised five step-kids and my son with a husband who lived abroad. I didn’t work (how could I, the only adult
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Originally posted on Love, InshAllah: A “Wasat Girl” embraces being in-between multiple cultures, because this transcultured space is globalism living out loud. It was where culture happens, the place of power, that middle space – “wasat” culture I am at a coffee shop sitting across from a man far younger than any of my…
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Originally posted on Sound Addictions: The American writer Deonna Kelli Sayed recently wrote an excellent article on the Dutch-Muslim singer Rajae (aka Rajae El Mouhandiz) who has just completed a new short film, ¡Hope!, about Muslim women in the music industry and performing arts. Born in Morocco to an Algerian mother and Moroccan father, Rajae has just released a…
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