I must admit it that as I wasn’t sure what to expect from Ramadan as it was my first that I didn’t know how to make it easy as I was unorganized. I decided that my technique to coping was to take each day at a time and that suited me fine. My first day was…

If your intentions are to spread knowledge about Islam, try to be more inviting and less defensive, as I often found this undoubtedly pushed people further away from Islam. I feel that although now I regret becoming so defensive and argumentative…

Halloween has become a massively commercialized celebration all over the world, creating massive revenue for each country, with parties getting more and more extravagant each year. But where exactly do the origins of Halloween come from? It can easily be mistaken that Halloween is just fun and games and opportunity to wear a costume and …

I converted in November 2010 and I kept it a secret for three months. I would leave the house in the morning with no hijab and then run around the corner and quickly put it on, because I knew that islamically I must wear the hijab but I also didn’t want to hurt my mom.

The next day, we decided we would go to the pool. My heart was pounding walking from our room through reception to the pool, wearing my full modest swimsuit with hood. I felt like I could almost feel peoples’ stare burning through my skin…

Before going on holiday I bought a burkini (Islamic swimming costume) which consists of trousers with a dress over the top with an attached hood to cover my head, somewhat like a scuba diving wet suit but much thinner…