"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Oppressive. Boorish. Misogynist: Those are the popular images of Muslim men and how they treat women. But there's more to it than that, thought Ayesha Mattu and Nura Maznavi, editors of the book “Love ...

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 ...

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 ...

There are so many lies that get circulated online about Islam that are sometimes printed and repeated as if they’re facts. Some of them really amuse me, especially the one about how Muslims believe in ...

Part of her hoped she'd find her soul mate when she joined Naseeb, a new online Muslim community. But getting a marriage proposal just three months later -- while on a snowboarding trip in ...

“A lot of times, my parents caution me on attending certain political rallies or presentations because of the optics. They are seemingly aware of the fact that someone is watching/listening, even if ...