Song can be a thread between what is lost and what is trying to be found, often speaking more honestly about the world than the surface layer of reality. The wilderness can often speak more eloquently to what stirs in our hearts. What sings, howls, creaks, or growls offers an…

Long before a British Orientalist renamed it, Islamic philosophers all referred to the controversial ‘Satanic verse’ in the Quran as the story of the cranes. The Satanic Verses: Reimagining the Story of the Cranes offers a focused telling of the story of Islam around its most controversial and tabooed history. …

Not just a story of lost royalty, but of women who like hurricanes spinning across a landscape, are wildly searching for something long lost. The themes of finding what is lost, seeing beyond tarnished reputations, following our heart’s calling, and walking away from what is normal or expected — all…

The game’s afoot. Faith as a puzzle worth solving. Excerpt from The Song of the Human Heart: Dawn of the Dark Feminine in Islam. Available on Amazon. The first revelation in Islam was in the cave, the eve of Islam’s holiest night called Laylat al-Qadr (Arabic for the Night of Power, sometimes called the Night of Destiny).What did Prophet…

The most effective way to fight broken ideas is to offer a better idea. Instead of spending precious time and energy fighting bad ideas, I’m offering a far more beautiful and powerful idea that expands the original container: Islam. The first published book in a series, The Song of the…

Every election year we’re told, “This is the most important election year” — but this really is the most important election year in my opinion. Not because of the candidates or their platform, nor because of party politics — but because of how much the energetics of our world has…

After September 11th, 2001, I left law school and dove into the rabbit hole of faith to understand how a religion I was told was peaceful, was producing people who were so terribly violent. This question in my heart took me on a path where I spent the next 22…

To preface, I’ve worked on the forefront of womens rights issues within Islam and culture for 22 years. The crisis in Iran is a perversion of faith — not unlike the witch hunts performed under the guise of faith. Summary: The protests in Iran signal an ancient feminine practice of severing…

The sharing of our collective outrage over attempts to control women is a cauldron, a sacred container for us to connect with the wisdom in all women, unique to the signature of our experience. My experience has been on the intersection of stories of beliefs (Iran’s morality police), the stories of women’s suffering (ideologies), stories of force (extremism), and the divinity within is (the story of remembering).