We think of divinity as something infinitely big, but it is also infinitely small - the condensation of your breath on your palms, the ridges in your fingertips, the warm space between your shoulder and the shoulder next to you.
From G. Willow Wilson
The road to democracy is rarely smooth, but for Egyptian women, it has been exceptionally bumpy.
The transition between life in red-state America and life in the Arab capital was at times overwhelming because of the traditional segregation of men and women in many public and private settings.
For me, insomnia was something ordinary, and it came and went for ordinary reasons.
The Qur'an is in many ways far less concrete than the Bible, relying on the esoteric more often than the apparent.
An ambitious, surreal tale of the love between a young Arab girl sold into marriage and the orphan boy she adopts, 'Habibi' spans multiple eras of conflict and change, stretching the lifetimes of its two protagonists over many centuries.
The Qur'an is God's property, not mine.
'Habibi' is a complex and unapologetic work of fantasy - no idle undertaking for readers of any faith or no faith at all, but one well worth the trouble.
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