Digitizing The Right Balance: Health and Wealth
byPersonal finance books often advocate for cutting small spending that, in the long term, contribute significantly to savings. While the concept is correct, it has…
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Qahera: The Superheroine in Abaya and Hijab (@qaheracomic)
byComics have become a powerful vehicle for Arab-Muslim female artists to voice the issues that matter to them. Comics have become a way to tackle…
A Case for Women Entrepreneurs in the Middle East
byIt seems like today, everyone is talking about startups. Economic, academic, and educational entities focus increasingly on generating startups and empowering entrepreneurs. A startup is…
Talent Beyond Borders
byWritten by Bahar AlAwadhi and Sarah AlMulla Exploring the career pathways available to the local talent pool and some of its limitations. “To make this…
When Our Need to Belong Becomes Harmful
byHow do our various identities serve our need to feel part of something bigger? How does the biological need for a sense of belonging affect…
Rooting Myself in a Changing City
byHow to cultivate a sense of place within rapid change. Having lived abroad for a decade, I am familiar with the term “reverse culture shock”…
Losing the Spark: A University Experience
byWhile I started university energetic and enthusiastic, I left it burned-out and demotivated. Is losing the spark inevitable? To say I was excited when I…
The Powerful Weight of Words
by“Have you not considered how Allah presents an example, making a good word like a good tree, whose root is firmly fixed and its branches…
Terrible Twos and its Blues
byThe terrible twos can be challenging for toddlers; however, it is equally challenging and emotional for parents. Two months ago, we hit the two-year mark…
Why a Social Understanding of Disability Matters
byWhile the need for enacting legislation and improving technologies were in the frontier of disability rights advocacy for decades, social roadblocks formed by the intersectionality…
Socializing in Times of COVID19’s Social Distancing
byWhen the dark force took over the skies and enwrapped its wings around the globe, spreading its evil essence of fear into the air –…
The Indirect Peer Pressure of the Rising Number of Marriages in COVID19
byThe tempting allure of getting married in COVID19, are we missing out? There’s been a sense of insecurity surrounding jobs worldwide since the onset of…
The Sadness that Can Come with Breastfeeding
byMothers often feel a pang of emptiness and frustration when they start breastfeeding; this situation has a medical term that many are unaware of and…
Bearing Witness to Injustice through our Breath
byContrary to marketing schemes, mindfulness of our breath was never meant to serve ourselves alone but to tune in to our responsibility toward the community…
Cultural Bereavement in Older Emirati Generations
byWhat is cultural bereavement, and why do older Emirati generations struggle with it when they haven’t moved from their home country? Cultural Bereavement is explained…
The Manifestation of Racism in Arranged Marriages
byExploring hidden racism in our communities and how they may appear in traditional marriages by the selection of our spouses. Artwork by Maitha Omar (Instagram:…
From the Arab Women in STEM (@ArabStemWomen), Letters to a Pre-Scientist
byConnecting the hearts and minds of Arab women in STEM with young people through handwritten letters. Over the past year, the Arab world witnessed the…
Do Not Ask What the World Needs
byDo you recall a time in your childhood when you were not afraid to ask the so called stupid questions? “Don’t ask what the world…
Academic Writing, An Unethical Yet Attractive Opportunity
byAcademic writing is often thought of as a way to as a way to make a quick buck, but it can be wrong in many…
Love in The Times of COVID-19
byWith conflict rising when couples are working from home together, how can they survive? WhatsApp blinked. It was a message in the group chat. “Guess…