Wendy Díaz

This past year, I took a graduate class called Islamic Law and Legal Theory, taught by Dr. Mariam Sheibani through Bayan Islamic Graduate School in partnership with the Chicago Theological Seminary. Dr.

"Do we have to?" "But, why do we go to school anyway?" "Will I ever actually use this?" Ah, the groans and grimaces of back-to-school season.

Over the past two decades, and especially during and after the trauma of the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been an increasing interest in self-love and methods of self-care.

“And it is He who subjected the sea for you to eat from it tender meat and to extract from it ornaments which you wear. And you see the ships plowing through it, and [He subjected it] that you may seek of His bounty; and perhaps you will be grateful.” 

Over the last decade and a half in my involvement with organizing Islamic events in the Northeast, there have been two familiar faces that I consistently see in the audience.

"How can I keep my kids on the Straight Path?" This question weighs heavily on the minds of American Muslim parents.