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[box_dark]What: Seminar “Rethinking the Muslim Marriage Contract” Who: KH Husein Muhammad, Dr Ziba Mir-Hosseini, Halijah Mohamad. Where: The Shaw Foundation Building, NUS When: 14th April 2012 By: AWARE, NUS Dept of Malay Studies, Leftwrite Center.[/box_dark] Rethinking Muslim Marriage Contract Seminar was conducted in an intimate atmosphere at The Shaw Foundation Building, NUS, with almost 50 […]

Musings of an Ex-Husband Some disclaimers are necessary at the offset: I am not a sociologist trained in examining the family unit. Neither am I a marriage counsellor qualified to advise warring couples nor do I hold any grandiose pretension to be a guru of any sort. And I certainly am not a prophet of […]

KOTA BARU, Oct 12, (TheMalaysianInsider.com) — A Muslim man can have sex with all his wives at the same time, according to a controversial new book on Islamic sex by the Obedient Wives Club (OWC). Titillatingly-titled “Seks Islam, perangi Yahudi untk kembalikan seks Islam kepada dunia [Islamic sex, fighting Jews to return Islamic sex to […]

We’ve always talked about it. A meet up is never complete until we talked about it. But, yesterday’s talk was different. It was filled with intense emotion, a kind of desperation. Maybe a plea for help. A talk that left me with a sleepless night just thinking about it. Perhaps the clock was ticking too […]

So you’ve met someone you think can lead you in this life (and don’t mind him driving you up the wall all the time), your parents approve of him, his parents like you and soon enough, the two of you are engaged! Alhamdulillah! You dream about your pending halal fairytale. You plan your sunnah-fied wedding […]

Divorce (Talak) is already a devastating social phenomenon in many liberal societies with deep psychological, financial and emotional impacts, the latter especially so on children. It is gaining ground in developing countries with the woman liberation movements, material prosperity and chiefly with the development of new modern views favouring individuality. In the majority of cases of divorce, […]

A lot has been said and written over the scandal of Anthony Weiner, the New York congressman who sent “dirty” photos to a woman of his acquaintance on the internet. His whole life has been probed into and his personality deeply analyzed, as can be expected whenever a public personality is involved in extra conjugal […]

I know this story has been going around for quite some time. I’ve seen it on Tumblr, I’ve received it in my email inbox and it’s been shared on Facebook notes as well. And now I’m going to put it here followed by why I don’t understand I’m the only one who hates the story. […]

When people talk about empowering women, the image that pops into my head is not that of a skinny, toothpick of a woman – trying miserably to relieve her body of whatever fat it has in order to look “perfect” and make it to the list of the “hottest women.” What comes to my mind, […]