Peacemindedly

Seen through Zahra Hankir's eyes, Eyeliner becomes a portal to history, proof both of the stunning variety among cultures and our shared humanity. Through intimate reporting and conversations—with nomads in Chad, geishas in Japan, dancers in India, drag queens in New York, and more—Eyeliner embraces the rich history and significance of its namesake, especially among communities. Listen to our conv...

About half of the world deals directly with bloody menstruation, and the other half endures it indirectly. Yet, we do not know much about the blood women lose every month for years to come. In this episode, Kate Clancy, a scientist and researcher at the University of Illinois-Champaign, ucovers the truth for us.

      Louis Place de Vosges is a garden at the hart of Paris that was built by Henri IV. It is a true square and one of the European programs of Royal City planning. I was there to take a rest in late Afternoon in Paris. Everything was so peaceful and divine. 

Sofia Rehman, Muslim scholar and avid book reader suggested the following books for us to  read this summer. Read more here .  

I saw a man picked a trash from the ground and put it in a trash can at Long Boom Park at Lake City.  I walked by the same piece of trash, never bothered to bend. He was kinder! Thank you. 

I talked with Dr. Sofia Rehman , an independent female scholar of Islam, about her book A Treasury of Aishah: A Guidance from the Beloved of the Beloved . We talked about the slander that Aishah had to endure, her wisdom, her wit, her intellectual capacity, and the Prophet's believe that Muslims should take half their deen, or religion, from Aishah.

I was utterly sad about something. I decided to take my sadness into nature. What happened next was unbelievably extraordinary.

Niloofar Hamedi and Elahe Mohammadi were among the first journalists to cover Mahsa Amini's death , the 22-year-old woman who was detained by Iran's morality police for improper hijab, and then died in the hospital. Niloofar Hammadi broke the story by publishing photographs of Amini lying brain-dead in the hospital. Elahe Mohammadi wrote about Amini's funeral. Hamedi and Mohammedi's reporting and...

I've been obsessed with eco-friendly, minimal, or what we often call these days: green living . My obsession is not new. I've been invested in this topic as long as I can remember.  Back in the mid-1980s I lived in Tehran when Iran was defending itself against the U.S.-supported Iraq attack. The war went on r ead more here . 

I yaled at my kind husband for opening my Amazon box ... because he ruined my TikTok vidoe!! 

This pioneering book makes an innovative contribution to Muslim feminist ethics. It is grounded in a collection of religious sermons (khutbahs) by contemporary Muslim women in a variety of new and emerging contexts, in South Africa, Senegal, Egypt, Malaysia, Pakistan, Indonesia, Canada, Mexico, the United States, Germany, Denmark, and the United Kingdom. Here, I'm talking with Sa'diyya Shaikh and...

I turned the engine on and saw the arrow for the car tank on dashboard turned all the way to full. I was so grateful for the kindness of my husband!

At the Starbuck car line, a pickup truck paid for our order. It was kindness and compassion toward us! 

Everyone was telling me I must interview 'This Person,' that I do not name him for the sake of anonymity. They said, and I heard, that he is an expert on Iran; he has written more than eight books about Iran and  the U.S. relations, he gives lectures about Iran and Islam around the world, he is a renowned Iranian scholar, and teaches in a famous university in New York city. Our editors thought tha...

About our guest: Masha Rumer is an award-winning journalist and freelance writer. Her work has appeared in the New York Times , the Washington Post , Quartz , the Moscow Times , Parents.com , and elsewhere. An immigrant from the former Soviet Union, she now lives with her family in California, where she is navigating the nuances of multicultural and interfaith parenting. You can find her online at...

About our guest:   Lisa  J. White was a senior instructor of Arabic, and former executive director of CASA, the Center for Arabic Study Abroad at the Arabic Language Institute of the American University in Cairo, where she taught for over thirty years.     About the Book:   We are all married to our bodies, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health. As a result, the...

  Yesterday was May 25, 2022, the second anniversary of George Floyds murder . Around the same time, about two years ago, I talked with Shelly Kloba, Democratic Representative of the 1st District at the Washington House of Representatives. We talked about racism, white supremacy, George Floyd killing, and the instruction on how citizens can reach out to politicians. In this interview, Rep. Kloba e...

An abortion is a medical procedure that ends a pregnancy. It is a basic healthcare need for millions of women, girls and others who can become pregnant. Worldwide, an estimate 1 in 4 pregnancies end in an abortion every year, according to Amnesty International. But while the need for abortion is common, access to safe and legal abortion services is far from guaranteed.   In countries like Iran abo...

About this episode: If justice is an essential value in Islam, why have women been treated as second-class citizens in Islamic legal tradition? In her book  Journeys Toward Gender Equality in Islam , Ziba Mir-Hosseini explores how democratic gender laws might be constructed from within the Islamic legal framework. She explains how her journey, and the journeys of six influential Muslim intellectua...

  About the book At the age of 18, Mansoor Adayfi left his home in Yemen for a cultural mission to Afghanistan. He never returned. Kidnapped by warlords and then sold to the US after 9/11, he was disappeared to Guantánamo Bay, where he spent the next 14 years as Detainee #441. Don't Forget Us Here  tells two coming-of-age stories in parallel: a makeshift island outpost becoming the world's most no...

Yasmine Elgharably  is a self-taught home cook with a business background and a passion for Middle Eastern cuisine. She is the co-founder of CairoCooking.com, a recipe-sharing platform for Middle Eastern food. Shewekar Elgharably  is an interior decorator. In 2016 she became a certified health coach and recipe developer for healing and nutritious dish combinations. Yehia El-Alaily  is a Cairo-base...

The fascination with the houri, the pure female of Islamic paradise, began long before September 11, 2001. The Beauty of the Houri: Heavenly Virgins, Feminine Ideals demonstrates how the ambiguous reward of the houri, mentioned in the Qur'an  and developed in Islamic theological writings, has gained a distinctive place in the cultural eye from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century. We talk w...

      Hello and Salam to you beautiful peaceful bridge makers. Journalists report on women in Muslim and Middle Eastern countries when their rights are violated. But they report on women in Western societies when their rights are respected, according to Islamophobia and Media Portrayal of Muslim Women, a text analysis of U.S. News coverage by Rochelle Terman. Is there a way to challenge this reali...

About our guest: Dyana Eldaief is the author of  Egyptian Flavors: 50 Recipes , easy-to-follow recipes that are rich with vegetables, flavors, legumes and meat. Dyna has appeared on the Middle East edition of the reality television cooking show  The Taste . She is active on YouTube and Instagram and offers classes on her website.   About the Book: This charming, pocket-sized collection of recipes...