What Men Want
“Love Marriage and Fairytales” is a somewhat misleading title to a popular Muslim Youtube video, trending in various social media circles, having gone “Muslim-viral,” as my fellow MMW contributor Sana...
View ArticleThe “Problem” of Spinsterhood in the Gulf
Last month, one of my close friends in Dubai got engaged. She is 35, an accountant, and her fiancé is a doctor. I still remember how her mother used to worry about her not getting married, to the...
View ArticleThis is why you’re single, Muslim ladies
Listen Muslim ladies, it’s the slow-jam Imam — and it’s time that we have a heart-to-heart. [Obligatory soundtrack] If you’re wondering why you haven’t had any success at masjid mixers, or you’re...
View ArticleLove, Love, Love: Muslim Women and Marriage in the Media
Love and marriage and relationships have been everywhere these days, especially as they relate to Muslims, and particularly Muslim women. After reading a highly gendered, sexist and inappropriate...
View ArticleDeconstructing Pre-Marriage Advice for Singaporean Muslims
This is my marriage contract, certifying that my husband and I went through a “marriage ceremony peformed under Islamic rites”, and that he had agreed to certain “special conditions” otherwise known as...
View ArticleMuslim Women, Not-So-Muslim Men: Interfaith Marriage in the UK
Since apparently all of us over the ripe age of 20 walk around with visible and obnoxiously loud ticking analog biological clocks, it’s no surprise that the issue of marriage is constantly smacked into...
View ArticleMosques and Marriages: Manifestations of Patriarchy and Misogyny in the...
This post was written by guest contributor Amina Jabbar. As I was sifting through the internet, blogger A Bengali in T.O. caught me with a personal question: “Where are the Girls in this Mosque?” The...
View ArticleStrictly Soulmates: The Trials and Tribulations of British Muslim ‘Singletons’
This post was written by guest contributor Maria Salman. Marriage: The one word on the tip of the tongue for many young Muslims. The difficulties in searching for the elusive One experienced by the...
View ArticleThe Men We Should Not Marry
A few days ago a fellow Facebook friend of Indian descent posted “10 reasons why you should not marry a Pakistani man”. Articles like this are not uncommon, since attitudes towards marrying certain...
View Article14 Things Your Muslim Wife *Really* Won’t Tell You (Snark Edition)
The guest post was lovingly created by a think tank of trying-to-be Ideal Muslimahs with an eye for issues of concern to Muslim women, such as sexuality, polygamy, reality, and other such dangerous...
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