Rahima Dosani is a member of the 2018-19 MALA Young Leaders Fellowship. Fellows participate in monthly digital seminars, dinner discussions, and other MALA events. As part of the program, Fellows reflect on their multiple layers of identities – as daughters, sons, professionals, athletes, and so much more – and share those reflections into the MALA […]
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Nazhah Khawajah shares her experiences navigating the Chicago school system as a young adult and finding fulfillment in her career, as well as in her personal life. Her story is one of risk-taking, intuition, and self-advocacy. “I was born in Chicago, Illinois, right here in the city. I remember a lot of play. We are
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Sohib Boundaoui: Slipping Through the Cracks of Identity Sohib Boundaoui’s insight into the mind of a child of immigrants is both encouraging and eye-opening. His insight into the mind of a child of immigrants is both encouraging and eye-opening. He talks about how he struggles to understand his identity as Northern African in America and
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Pious Ali is the founder of the Maine Interfaith Youth Alliance, and the first African Muslim to have ever been elected to public office in the city of Portland, Maine. Here, he describes his own journey as a leader and offers some of the lessons he has learned working with young people in a thriving
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Yaasha Abraham talks about the way she reconciles strict religious ideas with the way she expresses herself artistically. She illustrates how much of an influence her religion plays in her understanding of the world and her individual art. My name is Yaasha. I was not raised Muslim. I am what people now call a revert,
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Muna Khalif: Designing to Empower Muna took a leap of faith: she saw a need to develop clothing that is trendy and seasonal yet modest, and her fashion line, Muna Khalif, was born. Here, Muna discusses her struggle to re-imagine traditional fashion, and create clothing that is beautiful and empowering for women of all kinds. I
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Amal Hagisufi is a Financial Advisor by day and a blogger by night. She curates a blog (Doses of Her) which is an extension of her creativity, passion and inspirations. Amal writes, on her blog and elsewhere, about food, travel, beauty and fashion. Born in the beautiful country of Somalia, she found her way to
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Ameer Khan shares her journey of coming out and reconciling her faith with her identity. This story was reprinted with the author’s permission from MissMuslim magazine. My name is Ameer Khan, and I was brought up by two Bengali immigrants in and around the St. Louis County area of Missouri. Having immigrated here through many hardships
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Zeina Mohammed: The Anxiety of Identity Zeina Mohammed is a member of the 2018-19 MALA Young Leaders Fellowship. Fellows participate in monthly digital seminars, dinner discussions, and other MALA events. As part of the program, Fellows reflect on their multiple layers of identities – as daughters, sons, professionals, athletes, and so much more – and
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Al-Husein Madhany is the Chief of Staff to the Chief Human Resource Officer at PayPal. Prior to PayPal, Al-Husein worked at Facebook as an award-winning executive business partner and chief chaos tamer to Facebook’s first Chief Information Officer. Al-Husein is senior consultant at the Duncan Group Inc. (http://www.duncangroupinc.com), a New York City-based retained search firm.
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