Kareem Ansari: Roots Beyond Borders Kareem Ansari is an Arab-American of Palestinian heritage. Here, he discusses his cultural roots, his family, and why he feels like traveling and moving around while he was growing up helped shape his identity. I’m Palestinian originally. Both my parents are from Jerusalem and Palestine, and I’m a first-generation Arab-American […]
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Nadia Khalil is a 2022 recipient of MALA’s Emerging Leaders Scholarship Program, which offers scholarships to people of all backgrounds in the pursuit of higher education. I could feel my heart racing after the Uber driver opened the door for me. I walked in through the sliding doors of the ER terrified. How can I
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Aabiya Noman Baqai is a 2022 recipient of MALA’s Emerging Leaders Scholarship Program, which offers scholarships to people of all backgrounds in the pursuit of higher education. My identity has always been a source of confusion for me. I was born in Saudi Arabia and lived there for 23 years before moving to the U.S.
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Alizeh Haider is a Pakistani American Shia Muslim who is unapologetically herself and proud of her identity. Alizeh has worked as an intern with MALA, and here she shares her experiences in self-development personally, professionally, and spiritually. I just moved to Houston a few years ago, I moved from Toronto when I was fifteen. So
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Nausheen Rajan is a Pakistani American Ismaili Muslim. She speaks about how she kept her culture within her American upbringing and the importance of getting her community involved in the civic and social politics. Nausheen is an Alumnus of the MALA Young Leaders Fellowship program. I think my story starts before me. It starts with
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Seanwong Brown: Embrace Your Wings Seanwong Brown is a Thai African American who served in the United States Airforce. He speaks about his journey in trying to see the world and what he lessons he picked up along the way. I was born in Lubbock, Texas. My father was stationed there in the military, close
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Matt Ekram: The Ability to Change Matt Ekram is a Malaysian American that although has trouble with showing his identity, he wants Muslims like himself to be able to proudly talk about their experiences as a Muslim. I was born in a small town in the peninsula of Malaysia, called Kualo Johor. I have parents,
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Muhammed Aslan: Helping Those in Need Muhammed is a Turkish American Imam who works as a religious Chaplain in hospitals to try to help his patients in any way that he can. I was born in Lezing, Turkey, I moved to the United States in 2014. As I said, I was born in Turkey, in
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Sohail Hashmi: Reconciling Differences Between Cultures Sohail Hashmi is a self-described Liberal Muslim, born in Hyderabad, India, but raised in Savannah, Georgia. He is currently a Professor in the International Relations Department at Mount Holyoke College, specializing in Political Islam and the study of jihad. In his story, he shares his personal journey in the
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Farzana Doctor: The Global Issue of FGM Farzana is an author whose most recent novel tackles FGM and gender-based violence in the Dawoodi-Bohra community around the world and gives a platform for people to really understands both points of views of the issue. So, Seven is a novel about forty year-old Sharifa who lives in
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