"You fall in love with the most unexpected person at the most unexpected times." ▪▪ He stroke my arm with his hand and carefully followed his own action with his eyes. "What are you doing?" I asked, pushing his hand away. He raised his both hands in the air as defense and tucked them away in his jeans pockets afterw...
"I dare you," He said to me with determination in his eyes. "I dare you to try and make me believe those words that are coming out of your mouth. If you succeed then I'll change my ways." "And what happens if I don't?" He smirked at me, revealing his beautiful white flawless teeth. Why is every part of his body so fl...
[My stories do NOT represent Islam, they represent most Muslims nowadays] ~~~~ "So I can't be this close to you?" Brody softly asked, pretending he didn't know the rules of my religion. "THEN LEAVE", he added pointing towards the door. And that's when it hit me, it wasn't him who was holding me there.. it was my own...
Amira was called everything in the book. Fat, ugly, stupid, a worthless nobody. Suddenly she leaves for Turkey with her family for two years, happy to be rid of her bullies. She loses weight, gains a confidence she never knew she had. But then her family moves back to the city where she was bullied. She goes back to s...
Stop. "Do you see me?" I wear a headscarf, but I am not invisible. Mariam Ali is your typical 18 year old Muslim girl and is described as beautiful, intelligent and caring by others. However, she's also best described as 'lower class' barely living on a basic minimum wage with both her parents and siblings. Daniel Jam...
"Not all Muslims are terrorists." You know how people say never to judge a book by its cover? I shouldn't have done that myself. Growing up with racist parents planted a negative reputation of Muslims in my head. So, I started believing everything they've told me. I thought Muslims were the reason crisis was happenin...