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Come In: Sinners in Agraba by Samira Thomas

I had a feeling after watching Sinners that it was the most unmuslim muslim film I've seen in a while. But I couldn't put my finger on it until a few nights ago.

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in praise of patience

by Samira Thomas

Resilience is the fashionable prescription for trauma. But bouncing back is not the only – or best – way to bear sorrow

yesterday we knew light

short stories

in progress

academic publications

"Cosmopolitanism: A Journey of Suffering and Forgiveness" — Transnational Curriculum Inquiry, 2015

“Wayfarers of the Inner Landscape: A Feminist Sufi Perspective” — in At the Intersection of Selves and Subject, ed. Ellyn Lyle. SensePublishers, 2017.

"Provoking the Intimate Dialogue: A Path of Love" — in Canadian Curriculum Studies: A Métissage of Inspiration/Imagination/Interconnection, 2018.