As a staggering 20 years has now passed since 11 September 2001, it is bewildering to think that we have an entire generation of fully grown adults who were not even born when the passenger planes struck the Twin Towers that fateful day.

Afghan women are not passive entities that need rescuing by White liberals, writes Zimarina Sarwar…

Zimarina Sarwar reminds us why Afghanistan is known as “The Graveyard of Empires”

The pain of loss you carry now may well be what earns you entry into His Everlasting Mercy, where there will be no such thing as pain or separation ever again, writes Zimarina Sarwar.

Zimarina Sarwar argues in a culture where nothing is immune from being turned into a commodity, we need to be vocal and firm to preserve the sacred essence of Ramadan.

This International Women’s Day, Zimarina Sarwar warns about the deletion of womanhood by the cultural and ideological activities of powerful men.

There are many complicated and deep-rooted barriers people have to practicing Islam – at the very least don’t become one of them.

If one is required to leave so much of their self at the door before stepping in to ‘represent’ their community, how impactful and authentic can such representation actually be?

The changes we want to make do not need to be packaged up as New Year’s resolutions, ‘new year new me’, or other traditions that give you a prescribed time to achieve personal goals. Real and lasting change can begin anytime and relies on a small but critical framework.

Never has a collection of voices been so powerful, authentic and woefully overdue as this. We have all lived this story.