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 ...
Taz Ahmed is 38, single, Muslim, and Bengali. She describes herself as spiritual, but not particularly religious. When she was growing up, her immigrant parents hoped she would marry an I.T. worker ...
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 ...
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 ...
"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." ...
One Detroit’s Chris Jordan spoke to Ariella Gayotto Hohl about making the film “Islam’s Greatest Stories of Love” is a new documentary following Ariella Gayotto Hohl’s journey as she processes grief ...
At last night's messy Democratic debate in Charleston, South Carolina, one of the messiest moments came when Bernie Sanders was asked to address the concerns of American Jews over his Mideast policies ...
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 ...