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What’s an Asian? Race and Identity for a New Generation
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Muslim Women and Sports Participation
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Child abuse and its effect on brain development
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In Search of the Body Beautiful [Islamic view]
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Inspiring Kids to Love Their Differences
Race
What’s an Asian? Race and Identity for a New Generation
My eight-year-old daughter did something a few weeks ago that surprised me. She asked me what “Asian” meant. In Britain, Asian is usually taken to describe people of South Asian origin Pakistani, Bengali, Indian and Sri Lankan, unlike America where Asian generally denotes East Asians. People my age and older have been grouped into one [...]
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Muslim Women and Sports Participation
I was doing some research for work today on equality in sports participation and one of the most striking findings I came across was the lack of participation of Muslim women in Sports. Quite a few of the research reports and studies had attempted to gauge the reasons why Muslim women did not participate in [...]
Children
Child abuse and its effect on brain development
In the first of two articles, Jenni Whitehead explores present understanding and research on how abuse experienced in childhood affects the child’s developing brain function and how this in turn affects learning. I have worked with many children and adults who have experienced abuse in childhood and have come to be fascinated by the way [...]
Magazine
In Search of the Body Beautiful [Islamic view]
There seems no limit nowadays to the extent that women (and men) are prepared to go to for that ‘perfect look’. Forget false eyelashes and wigs, we are now talking scalpels, implants and liposuction! Cosmetic surgery amongst film actresses has been commonplace for quite some time now, but these days, we wouldn’t be too hard [...]
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Inspiring Kids to Love Their Differences
Over the Christmas holidays, my husband Marcus, our 7-year-old daughter, Alex and I found ourselves in a local coffeehouse. This particular cafe also happens to be famous for making some of the best cupcakes in Houston, so it was a little treat for us to have hot chocolate, cappuccinos and dark chocolate cake balls so [...]
Recent Tweets
Messenger of Allah, "Marry from outside the family, otherwise your offspring will be weak."
Inbreeding – Cousin marriages and health disorders It is estimated that at least 55% of British Pakistanis are married to first cousins and the tradition is also common among some other South Asian communities and in some Mid...
Muslim Parents Need Advice to Guide their Children
We also feel that many Muslim Parents don’t fulfil their responsibility in providing sex education to their children and teens from an Islamic perspective; too often they leave it to the secular education system to do and mos...
An Adult Muslim is required to perform an obligatory full body wash known as (Ghusl)
This advice was primarily given to a Muslim prisoner who due to imprisonment was not able to access shower facilities; it can also be applied to any male who due to necessity is unable to access showering/washing facilities. An...
Getting information
Teens need information about the changes going on in their bodies and about sex. The most frequent questions at teen health sites like TeenHealthFX.com are about physical changes and sexual health; but what if teens are not get...
Body Image & Self-Esteem
Do any of these statements sound familiar? Are you used to putting yourself down? If so, you’re not alone. As a teen, you’re going through a ton of changes in your body. And as your body changes, so does your image ...
Q&A Boys & Puberty
MSA is going to start by giving you some general information on puberty in males: When Do Guys Go Through Puberty? Puberty starts at different times for different people. The timing of puberty depends mainly on a person’s gen...
