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Tales of Zainab: A Perpetually Tired Housewife

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Q&A with Zainab

Feb 15, 2024

Feb 15, 2024

Your Eyes

I don’t think time is the healer of all things But the way you look at me in the sunshine, With your brown amber eyes And that look (you…

Feb 19, 2024

Feb 19, 2024

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A Cup for One

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Feb 18, 2024

A Cup for One

Feb 18, 2024

Naivety isn’t Virtuous

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Feb 17, 2024

Naivety isn’t Virtuous

Feb 17, 2024

Most Converts Know This Painful Feeling

What if my family doesn’t convert?

Feb 16, 2024

Most Converts Know This Painful Feeling

Feb 16, 2024

Words are Heavier Than Sticks and Stones

A poem

Feb 15, 2024

Feb 15, 2024

I Promise it Gets Better

But for now, it just hurts

Feb 14, 2024

I Promise it Gets Better

Feb 14, 2024

Freedom Isn’t Always Free

Freedom here is one of those collar shockers, where it looks nice around your neck,

Feb 13, 2024

Freedom Isn’t Always Free

Feb 13, 2024

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My Fair Lighthouse

Coming in Closer

A Poem

Feb 12, 2024

Coming in Closer

Feb 12, 2024

We Always Knew

Parts of me wished I would have known you sooner to not have to ache and yearn and search for 22ish years of my life but I never didn’t…

Feb 12, 2024

We Always Knew

Feb 12, 2024

Portraits of the Ones We Love

The fire crackles as

Feb 11, 2024

Portraits of the Ones We Love

Feb 11, 2024

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My Fair Lighthouse

Mermaid’s Tears

A micropoem

Feb 11, 2024

Mermaid’s Tears

Feb 11, 2024

What is Home?

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Feb 10, 2024

What is Home?

Feb 10, 2024

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Wake. Write. Win.

How Having a Miscarriage as a Muslimah is a Blessing

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Feb 9, 2024

How Having a Miscarriage as a Muslimah is a Blessing

Feb 9, 2024

Forgiveness is a Virtue

Race with one another towards Forgiveness from your Lord and towards a paradise the width of which spans the heavens and the earth. It has…

Feb 8, 2024

Forgiveness is a Virtue

Feb 8, 2024

My worth is to you is Less than it’s Weight in Gold

I am screaming under the waves Am I to hold my breath? Allow them to hold me under? (In combat, it's a form of torture, waterboarding) or…

Feb 8, 2024

Feb 8, 2024

To Love is to Compromise

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Feb 8, 2024

To Love is to Compromise

Feb 8, 2024

I Don’t Mind It, Dear

For my darling husband

Feb 7, 2024

I Don’t Mind It, Dear

Feb 7, 2024

Carry Me Home

You carry my heart with you everywhere and nowhere you go It has touched thousands of suns and slept under thousands of moons I have felt…

Feb 7, 2024

Feb 7, 2024

Heart Paths

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Feb 7, 2024

Heart Paths

Feb 7, 2024

Tales of Zainab: A Perpetually Tired Housewife

Tales of Zainab: A Perpetually Tired Housewife

Zainab is a convert of Islam since 2019. She loves to learn more about her beautiful religion, question people, spend time with her family, and sometimes write.

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