The Australian Government Has Demonstrated Once Again: Our Citizenships are Conditional

By banning Australian citizens from returning home from India, the Australian Government has demonstrated that our citizenships are conditional.

My Thoughts on the Explosion in Beirut

What’s left in the courageous and resilient people of Lebanon to keep them going?

Ellen represents everything I hate about ‘nice’ people

Nice people have an inability to accept or deal with negative realties… even when they themselves cause them.

My Favourite Podcasts (Yes, they’re all true crime).

I love finding new and interesting podcasts – mostly ones involving unsolved murders.

13 Ways to Know your Boss is a Psychopath: A story in GIFs from ‘The Office’

I’ve worked for some terrible psychopaths. Let me help you explain why those behaviours you feel are wrong ARE wrong with the help of The Office.

Eggplant with Tahini Sauce + Salad

This is one of the easiest, tastiest eggplant recipes you’ll try.

Turkey Travels: Ajwa Hotel

This was truly the most Muslim-friendly, generous, luxurious hotel I’ve ever stayed at.

Turkey Travels: World Heritage Hotel

This hotel in Sultanahmet had the best service and location ever!

Dealing with My Grandmother’s Passing

The passing of my grandmother was the first loss of a family member that I have dealt with and it has truly rocked me to the core of my being.

Getting out of my own head.

I let the world get me down. It’s time to hit the reset button.

You can’t have your cake and eat it too: Australia’s experiment in multiculturalism

Australia has hit a fork in the road in the multiculturalism experiment. It’s time to make important choices.

To those defending the free speech of bigots

Where were you when WE tried to speak?

We told you.

We’ve been telling you for years that right-wing extremists were a threat.

Liam Neeson: Can we all put the pitchforks down?

When did we start turning pitchforks at people who discuss the lessons they’ve learned?

Be you; your authentic you

Younger me would have told you to create a persistent shell to hide behind. Young me was so wrong.

Dear ScoMo – Enough, enough, enough.

Scott Morrison is pissed off that Muslim leaders won’t play his game. GOOD.

Dina’s no longer a hijabi: What does this mean for the rest of us?

For the uninitiated, Dina Torkia (or Dina Tokio) is a blogger/YouTuber/social media influencer/designer and all round cool person. I have …

Undressing the stupidity in Pauline’s burqa comments

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’d know by now that Pauline Hanson, an Australian Senator, wore a burqa …

… remind me again why Australia Day needs to be so disrespectful and racist?

There are 365 days in a year – why do we need to celebrate our national identity on a day that represents so much destruction to the traditional owners of this land?

No; rapping, Playboy-posing hijabis do not represent me.

Why should I believe that sexist ideals will ‘free’ the oppressed Muslim woman?