Nashwa Khan

Nashwa Khan is currently living and learning in the Greater Toronto Area. Over her undergraduate career in Hamilton, she served on a number of councils including the City’s Status of Women Committee, was Space Allocation Chair of McMaster’s Women and Gender Equity Network, and currently chairs the city’s Youth Advisory Council. Her work has been published in a variety of places including Guerilla Feminism, LoveInshAllah, Coming of Faith, and the HuffingtonPostBlog. She is an avid storyteller, and lover of narrative medicine and public health education. Feel free to tweet her @nashwakay.

Anti-Islam Rhetoric Will Do Nothing to Stop Terror

Nashwa Khan

Each time an attack occurs, public figures seem willing to conflate terrorists and Muslims as interchangeable subjects. It draws divides of “us” versus “them” more blatantly. It reiterates that our people’s lives are worth less than non-Muslims.

Queer Muslims Need Support, Not Ignorance, From LGBTQ Allies

Nashwa Khan

Rather than trying to “start a dialogue” through mockery, would-be allies should allow queer Muslims to speak for themselves as they try to establish themselves in spaces that often silence or ignore them.

Young Muslims Aren’t Villains—But You Wouldn’t Know It From the Media

Nashwa Khan

The vilification of Muslim children is not new, and it is far from limited to fictional instances. These media portrayals can translate into real-life repercussions in the lives of Muslim youth.

Wearing a Hijab for Lent Is No Way to Demonstrate Solidarity

Nashwa Khan

Thousands of Muslim women who live in the United States wear the hijab and face discrimination because of it—yet non-Muslim women are praised and heralded for donning it for a single day or month.

Would I Be Mourned in the Same Way as the Chapel Hill Shooting Victims?

Nashwa Khan

There's no doubt the Chapel Hill victims were admirable individuals. But the response to their tragic deaths reflects a narrative that Muslims in the West like myself have been taught from a young age: We must become role models in our community to have value as humans.

Ray Rice’s Domestic Violence Has Nothing to Do With Islam

Nashwa Khan

In the wake of domestic abuse reports from the NFL, social media outlets were flooded with Islamophobic stereotypes about misogyny and violence.

Nashwa Khan

Anti-Islam Rhetoric Will Do Nothing to Stop Terror

Queer Muslims Need Support, Not Ignorance, From LGBTQ Allies

Young Muslims Aren’t Villains—But You Wouldn’t Know It From the Media

Wearing a Hijab for Lent Is No Way to Demonstrate Solidarity

Would I Be Mourned in the Same Way as the Chapel Hill Shooting Victims?

Ray Rice’s Domestic Violence Has Nothing to Do With Islam

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