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		<title>NYT article: &#8220;In ‘Love, InshAllah,’ American Muslim Women Reveal Lives&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 00:50:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Editors Ayesha Mattu and Nura Maznavi Remember how when you&#8217;re young they tell you to follow your passion and pursue your dreams? Later, all that gets lost as practical considerations intervene and guide our lives. I took this year off to focus on my twin passions &#8211; my son and my book &#8211; and the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rickshawdiaries.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1668016&amp;post=2613&amp;subd=rickshawdiaries&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sexy Muslim women bring the trolls to the blog</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 00:21:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Baraka</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a crazy three days. On Tuesday, our article headlined at HuffPo Comedy and brought the nation together in our shared love for Jon Stewart. Yesterday, our amazing friends and families rallied in support and our book climbed to #8 on the Amazon women&#8217;s studies bestseller list. Today, a light-hearted excerpt from our anthology was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rickshawdiaries.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1668016&amp;post=2602&amp;subd=rickshawdiaries&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Top 5 ways to support Muslim women writers today!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 23:03:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Baraka</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Love, InshAllah: The Secret Love Lives of American Muslim Women hits the shelves in just three weeks! It&#8217;s a moving and provocative non-fiction anthology featuring 25 American Muslim women speaking openly for the first time about their search for love. Here are the top five ways you can help amplify Muslim women&#8217;s voices right now: [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rickshawdiaries.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1668016&amp;post=2599&amp;subd=rickshawdiaries&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Muslim women find Jon Stewart irresistible</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 19:53:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Baraka</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our latest piece, “Muslim Women for Jon Stewart 2012,” is up on The Huffington Post: Buried in the “controversy” over Bradley Cooper’s selection as People magazine’s most recent Sexiest Man Alive is a little known fact: If you had polled American Muslim women the winner would have been — wait for it — Jon Stewart. Read [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rickshawdiaries.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1668016&amp;post=2595&amp;subd=rickshawdiaries&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Call of the wild</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 21:17:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bean is almost 22-months-old and in the past month has started singing, reciting memorized portions of storybooks, and jumping off of every object he can climb (as he says, &#8220;Big Jumped!&#8221;). He dances to birdsong, waves, wind chimes, jazz, and even Arabic recitations of the Qur&#8217;an. For him, this wondrous world  inspires some serious grooving. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rickshawdiaries.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1668016&amp;post=2582&amp;subd=rickshawdiaries&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Love letters and the new year</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 07:25:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Baraka</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I loved reading Taz&#8217;s beautiful resolution on the first day of this new year:  to write love letters to all the people who are meaningful in her life. She inspired me to complete the letters I&#8217;ve meaning to finish for awhile now. Her mother passed away last year and through her resolution Taz reminded me [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rickshawdiaries.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1668016&amp;post=2587&amp;subd=rickshawdiaries&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sisters are doing it for themselves</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 20:43:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Baraka</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Love InshAllah anthology website is live! Please come meet our 25 gorgeously powerful writers and read what early reviewers have to say. It&#8217;s been an extraordinary five-year-long journey to this moment on the brink of publication. I am so proud of the honesty and beauty with which each woman has shared her most intimate thoughts [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rickshawdiaries.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1668016&amp;post=2575&amp;subd=rickshawdiaries&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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