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  • Blog,  Bridging Cultures,  Islam

    Censorship – muslims caught in the middle

    March 31, 2012 /
    Woman in a burqa with bars

    Earlier this year I joined thousands of other websites and “blacked out” for the day to protest against PIPA & SOPA; laws being drafted to restrict freedom of expression. I initially thought this was my first direct experience with censorship, but in reality, I've been exposed to it for the past decade; ever since I became a Muslim...

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    Whitby Ribfest 2013

    Ever been to a rib-eating contest?

    July 17, 2013

    Driving License Transfer – Time to make a Will…

    September 14, 2011

    Autism and Friendship – Flying Into The Windowpane

    October 24, 2017
  • Blog,  Mental Health

    Canadian Youth and Suicide – an uncomfortable truth

    March 29, 2012 /
    Caylen Milben

    The funeral of Toronto teenager, Caylen Millben took place this morning. He was the third teenager at the Sandalwood Heights secondary school to take his own life since November.

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    “It’s chocolate Jim, but not as we know it…”

    November 19, 2011
    Paris, Ontario

    Playing In Paris

    October 2, 2013
    Oshawa Generals logo

    A visit from the Oshawa Generals

    January 19, 2012
  • Blog,  Expat Life

    Aisha on life as an expatriate…

    March 29, 2012 /

    My interview with BlogExpat is out! And the kids think they're famous...

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    A Book, a Bereavement, and a Betrayal

    February 3, 2016
    The Truth About Islam

    The truth about Islam

    September 25, 2012
    policelinedonotcross

    Corruption in Canada

    December 4, 2011
  • Blog,  Bridging Cultures,  Islam

    Store sold out of controversial Muslim book | Toronto & GTA | News | Toronto Sun

    March 27, 2012 /
    Islamic bookstore Toronto, controversial book, how to beat your wife

    This might currently be making news headlines around the world but it's nothing new. When I first converted to Islam ten years ago I visited various Islamic bookshops, in cities up and down the UK, and found books like this in all of them...

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    Has anyone seen the moon?

    August 31, 2011
    Toronto, Traffic, commute

    The Toronto commute named one of the world’s worst

    November 11, 2011
    Dairymilk chocolate bar partially unwrapped

    Chocolate heaven…

    January 6, 2012
  • Blog,  Uncategorized,  Writing

    Define Me

    March 26, 2012 /
    signpost to opportunity

    “What’s your niche?” It’s a question every blogger faces. Now I wouldn’t say I’m claustrophobic, but I find being catalogued creatively limiting. If you take into account my change of name, change of religion, change of country, amalgamation of culture, I think you’ll agree I’m kinda difficult to pin down...

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    Winter Is Coming

    November 27, 2013

    Driving License Transfer – Time to make a Will…

    September 14, 2011
    Yonge Street, downtown Toronto

    The Coldest February Since Eighteen-Something

    February 25, 2015
  • Bridging Cultures,  Interracial marriage,  Islam

    Meeting the In-Laws – bridging the cultural divide

    March 23, 2012 /
    Meet the parents

    It's no surprise that the first time I traveled to Edinburgh to visit K's parents I was incredibly nervous. No-one would deny that meeting their in-laws for the first time is stressful; they're probably the only other set of parents that you'll hope to impress and please as much as your own.

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    Ghosts Of Ramadans Past

    August 6, 2013
    muslim day at Canada's Wonderland poster

    Muslim Day at Canada’s Wonderland

    July 10, 2012
    Shafia trial

    Truth, Justice and the Canadian Way – on the end of the Shafia trial

    January 30, 2012
  • Blog,  Mental Health

    Kids in crisis – the repercussions of abuse

    March 20, 2012 /
    child_abuse_poster_by_gothikanaart

    Picture yourself in the following situation… As a baby, you entered the world unwanted. If you had any doubts about that as you got older they were erased by the knowledge that your mother “gave you away” to be raised by a fellow stripper with a long history of drug and alcohol abuse. So it’s true; she really didn’t give a **** about you. You tell yourself you’re glad you never knew her. Does it stop the pain?

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    Window on our world

    View from the gazebo

    April 11, 2012
    Rutabaga/Swede

    The Supermarket Experience

    November 7, 2011
    Altruistic expat, AECOM's Khawar Ashraf

    Unexpected Benefits

    February 1, 2013
  • Blog,  Expat Life,  Photography

    Toronto: Discovering the Discovery District

    March 19, 2012 /
    Stewart Building, Toronto

    On Friday I was in Toronto’s Discovery District for a morning meeting at CAMH where I’ve volunteered to take part in research studies examining treatment for the prevention of depression relapse.

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    Dear Dairymilk

    November 18, 2011
    Home Sweet Home sign hanging on door

    “I have a house…”

    May 9, 2012
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    Making A Meal Of Ramadan

    June 22, 2015
  • Blog,  Mental Health

    Investigating relapse prevention in depression

    March 15, 2012 /
    camh logo

    Tomorrow I’m off to Toronto’s Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, affectionately known as “cam-aitch”. It’s Canada's largest mental health and addiction teaching hospital, as well as one of the world's leading research centres in the area of addiction and mental health...

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    Do hunters have a place in today’s world?

    December 7, 2011
    break the silence

    A bitter pill to swallow

    July 11, 2012
    expat family

    How an overseas job can affect family life

    December 15, 2011
  • Bridging Cultures,  Interracial marriage,  Photography

    Cross cultural relationships

    March 14, 2012 /
    Barbie & Iggle Piggle get together, multi-racial relationships

    In the light of my recent post about Marrying into a different culture, today we're finding the beauty in love across the barricades. It seems that my family's embrace of other cultures has had far-reaching consequences... ... if this picture of Barbie and Iggle Piggle from The Night Garden is anything to go by!

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    A Matter of Faith

    February 13, 2012
    What About Your Saucepans? Lindsay De Feliz

    Review of “What About Your Saucepans” – genre: expat

    November 15, 2013

    The Good, The Bad & The Hungry

    July 20, 2012
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Top Posts & Pages

  • O Canada, O What do I do?
    O Canada, O What do I do?
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    Meeting the In-Laws - bridging the cultural divide
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    Nude yoga: Now available in Toronto
  • Bangles, Betrothal & ‘A Good Pakistani Girl’
    Bangles, Betrothal & ‘A Good Pakistani Girl’
  • Learning a language
    Learning a language
  • Marrying into a different culture – The clash of East and West
    Marrying into a different culture – The clash of East and West
  • Childhood Is A Foreign Country
    Childhood Is A Foreign Country
  • Expats Are Born Not Made. Discuss
    Expats Are Born Not Made. Discuss

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