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    Making A Meal Of Ramadan

    June 22, 2015 /
    Table with various arabic food served

    Is it just me or does Ramadan seem to get more air-time and column inches with every passing year?

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    Surviving a Canadian Winter

    September 9, 2011

    Wicked weather

    August 25, 2011

    Point & Shoot – Blizzards, books & bumps in the night

    December 16, 2013
  • Autobiographical Posts,  Blog,  Islam

    An Apologist’s Apology

    March 12, 2015 /
    Black and white, woman offering man flowers

    Instead of building intercultural bridges as I imagined, I was adding my bricks to the prisons so many are walled up in by their own communities...

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    Grandad’s Ghost, or, How To Fuck Up A Funeral

    December 17, 2015
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    Choking on the memory

    September 9, 2012
    Awards

    Versatile? Me?

    October 17, 2011
  • Islam

    Leaving Islam – the hangover

    November 10, 2014 /
    A vintage old bird cage shaped like a human head

    There's no room for questions or variance in expression of belief in Islam - to be true to myself I must step out.

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    Solitary Journey

    What made you become a Muslim?

    September 18, 2013
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    A Matter of Faith

    February 13, 2012
    The Truth About Islam

    The truth about Islam

    September 25, 2012
  • Islam

    Leaving Islam – irreconcilable differences

    October 31, 2014 /
    Sunset through a scalloped archway

    Previously I owned up to the deep disquiet I’ve been feeling about my faith; how I suppressed it, and how I tried to reignite my conviction. But my quest only unearthed more reasons to hold it in question. This wasn't a dip in devotion - it was a derailment.

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    Has anyone seen the moon?

    August 31, 2011
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    Censorship – muslims caught in the middle

    March 31, 2012
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    Leaving Islam – the hangover

    November 10, 2014
  • Blog,  Bridging Cultures,  Islam

    Leaving Islam – the greatest jihad?

    October 20, 2014 /
    Silhouette of a shrouded women through the doorway of a Turkish mosque

    Zealous muslim converts strike out for Syria in droves answering the Islamist call to jihad, but this one’s eyeing the back door...

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    How People With Autism Fake It

    September 30, 2015
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    The soundtrack to life abroad

    July 8, 2012

    Troubles in Britain

    August 9, 2011
  • Blog,  Bridging Cultures,  Interracial marriage

    Merry Christmas from the Muzzies

    December 12, 2013 /

    The tree’s up, gifts have been bought and three homemade Christmas puddings are chilling in the cold cupboard. So far so good – this Muslim household is on track for Christmas...

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    October 12, 2011
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    Fed up of the Fords

    December 1, 2011
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    Crime in Canada

    November 28, 2011
  • Bridging Cultures,  Interracial marriage,  Islam

    What made you become a Muslim?

    September 18, 2013 /
    Solitary Journey

    There are times when the faith I connect with seems a different animal viewed through the eyes of others. I wonder if I still count as a Muslim when I disagree with so much it’s purported to represent...

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    Daily Bread – our relationship with roti

    May 23, 2012
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    Cross cultural relationships

    March 14, 2012
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    Humor & Depression

    August 15, 2014
  • Bridging Cultures,  Interracial marriage,  Islam

    Ghosts Of Ramadans Past

    August 6, 2013 /
    Sunset on Lake Ontario

    It’s the early hours of the morning. The sky is still a bottomless black and I've roused myself from sleep to eat before the fast begins...

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    Tolerance and Acceptance – subtle differences with a BIG impact

    November 29, 2011
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    4 Tips For Raising Biracial Children

    July 25, 2013
    What About Your Saucepans? Lindsay De Feliz

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

    November 15, 2013
  • Blog,  Bridging Cultures,  Islam

    How I Discovered The Real Ramadan

    July 30, 2013 /
    Window on our world

    I ached to experience the nightly anticipation of breaking the fast as part of something larger. Deprivation is so much more tolerable, and joy heightened, in company…

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    Fighting To Be Heard

    October 16, 2012

    Wicked weather

    August 25, 2011
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    Toronto Time-Lapse

    October 10, 2012
  • Blog,  Bridging Cultures,  Islam

    Make Me A Muslim

    February 12, 2013 /
    muslims praying in a mosgue

    The other night I watched a documentary about UK women who’d converted to Islam. A convert myself, I was curious to hear their experiences and find out what people think when they hear of westerners converting...

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    October 28, 2015
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    June 26, 2013
    Window on our world

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    July 30, 2013
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