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Part 8 – Mr Right on radio!

September 2, 2018September 2, 2018All, MY STORY

2 September 2018 After what almost seemed like a plot in a movie, having fled from Kenya, I returned home downtrodden. A close friend of mine, who had also gone through an extremely rough experience,

Part 7 – Mata Hari

August 26, 2018August 26, 2018All, MY STORY

26 August 2018 I ended Part 6 in Nairobi, Kenya, with my Arab husband coming at me with a broken coffee table raised above his head, and then by the grace of God retreating without

Part 6 – Arabian Svengali in Africa

August 19, 2018August 19, 2018All, MY STORY

19 August 2018 In Part 5 of my story I relayed how my childhood ‘molestation’ experience had shaped my school years and influenced my narrative. In fact, rather than hooking my reactions onto the experience,

Part 5 – Iron Fist

August 12, 2018August 12, 2018All

12 August 2018 Part 4 of my story ended with the narration of my experience as a child at the hands of a disturbed adult and my long journey towards healing and forgiveness. Save to

Part 4 – “Come lie with me little girl”

August 5, 2018August 6, 2018All, MY STORY

5 August 2018 In Part 3, I described an unwanted sexual encounter in my early twenties when my resounding “No!” was ignored by a man with a sense of entitlement to my body. A common

Part 3 – No!

July 29, 2018October 8, 2021All, MY STORY

8 October 2021 The rewrite… This post has haunted me for some time now. I often question how honest I was to myself and to my readers about what really happened that night all those

Holding the Dunya (world) in your hands and not your heart

June 3, 2018July 3, 2018Islamic posts

Delivered at Women’s’ Ramadaan Thikr talk at Pinelands Masjied, Cape Town 3 June 2018 (18 Ramadaan 1439) Detachment is not that you should own nothing but that nothing should own you (Sayyidina) Ali Ibn Abu

Muslims: Moving from Victimisation to Reformation

May 13, 2018May 13, 2018Islamic posts

بِسْمِاللهِالرَّحْمٰنِالرَّحِيْمِ (In the name of God, most Gracious, most Compassionate) لسَّلاَمُعَلَيْكُمْوَرَحْمَةُاللهِوَبَرَكَاتُهُ to all (May the peace, mercy, and blessings of God be with you) I know deep within me that I have a drive to

I HATE MEN!

April 27, 2018April 27, 2018All, Love & Relationships

23 August 2017 I first posted this blog on Facebook immediately after my piece on “The Mating Game”. The latter got me thinking and it jarred my blogging for a few days. I contemplated my

Loving my children with an iron fist

April 27, 2018June 20, 2018Parenting

13 August 2017 We return to whence we came, to the same source and we cannot forget our connection and reliance on one another as part of this puzzling, beautiful and challenging planet. I last

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