Yasmin Elhady and Hoda Abrahim are on a mission to pair young Muslims with their potential soulmates in Muslim Matchmaker. I never thought I'd hear the phrases "flirt to convert" or "halal-haram ratio ...

When Mariam Mokhtar, 21, started taking karate classes for fun with her little brothers, she expected to get exercise and learn self-defense, not to meet her future husband. Mokhtar and Rai Shaw were ...

Persian and other Islamic literature celebrated male homoerotic love as a form of divine longing – until Western moral codes ...

Premieres Friday, Aug. 22, 2025 at 8 p.m. on KPBS 2 / PBS app + The film will begin streaming on YouTube with the broadcast This powerful two-hour documentary about how a heartbroken woman finds ...

Oppressive. Boorish. Misogynist: Those are the popular images of Muslim men and how they treat women. But there's more to it than that, thought Ayesha Mattu and Nura Maznavi, editors of the book “Love ...

"For Muslims, marriage is an act of worship," matchmaker Yasmin Elhady says Liza Esquibias is a Writer-Reporter on the TV team at PEOPLE. She was previously an Editorial Intern and News Writer. Muslim ...

If you think good Muslim women wait for marriage to have sex, think again. "I'm an unmarried, Muslim non-virgin," declares Insiya Ansari, a writer in the San Francisco Bay Area. "I've said it aloud." ...

In her new graphic memoir That Can Be Arranged, cartoonist Huda Fahmy recounts how she met and married her husband. The subtitle is A Muslim Love Story — and Fahmy says it's exactly that. "Muslims are ...

In the West, peace means “live and let live.” In Islam, peace means the world has bent the knee to Allah. What does love have ...

I had invited my entire class. That included Hindus, Muslims and even Christians,” said Shivangi Patel. “If a classmate of ...

When Mariam Mokhtar, 21, started taking karate classes for fun with her little brothers, she expected to get exercise and learn self-defense, not to meet her future husband. Mokhtar and Rai Shaw were ...