“You don’t have to wear that thing, you’re free to take it off!” How many times have Hijabi women had to hear that? While the people...

…بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) said, “Do good deeds properly, sincerely and moderately and know that  your deeds will not...

We often feel very sad and lost even for the smallest things: “Why is my life this bad and his good?”, “Why would this happen to me?”, “I...

“Do not despair my girl…” you once told me. “Learn to trust people, learn to love, learn to smile even when it hurts, and always keep...

Gone are the days when video games were seen as the province of the few! Whether it’s housewives mixing and matching in Candy Crush or...

These past two weeks have been a steep rising and steep diving of emotions. What follows is a piece written as the result of this...

The worst thing or maybe best thing about fear is that it is based on our perception of things. Fears are formed from past experiences,...

I got my ticket I am on my way In the train to nowhere. Got in the economy class The one-seater assigned to one Behind is the local birth...

We weren’t around back then, but you can still hear the doddering dinosaurs from way back in the late 1990s talk about those glorious...

Hello! I’m Noor and I’m in the Iraqi Cultural Association. We’re a new club in Georgetown University in Qatar, and we hope to use our...

In the days when light and goodness reigned and the world’s evils could be sidelined by the blissful ignorance of childhood, boys waited...

Just because Facebook and Twitter have banned Donald Trump’s supporters does not mean that they are shut out totally from social media....

Once upon a time there was a cat named Cupcake. He used to roam around my compound- a honey-coloured ball of fluff, dragging his tail...

In the wake of a burgeoning post-war austerity in the late forties, the Italian film scene underwent a paradigm shift which was a novelty...

You might think you know who calls the shots at Georgetown. But you don’t. You may never even have heard of Jack the Bulldog- the...

For many years, Yemen Hadhramaut had always been dependable for home-style Yemeni meals for Education City (EC) students. The restaurant...

Once again, I found myself in the great big labyrinthine hall, surrounded by various routes and possible destinations. From where I was...

Once upon a time, in a great, lively town, there lived a young man who could tell the future. This power of his had its limitations,...

As Zehra lay on the bed observing the lofty fan rotating on the flat wooden ceiling, she waited patiently for the clock to strike...

She finally caught a two-second glimpse of it before the car swirled into the rocky mountain tunnel. Counting every second, minute, and...