This piece reflects on the personal nostalgia and complexities of Ramadan over the years, contrasting past experiences with the present. It highlights the irony of the term 'unprecedented' being used to describe each Ramadan, despite the ongoing cycles of violence and oppression that persist.

Amienata discusses an important event ‘Muslim History in North Carolina: A Public Conversation’

(Community Submission) The Ascent is a poem about the ease that awaits during times of hardship. It is for those who have had to endure oppression in a world that too often looks the other way. 

One evening, my brother and I saw a man digging in the trash at a local Coffee Bean.

I am a Muslim, Canadian Palestinian woman, and I do not know where home is…

I never understood what spiritual violence meant until my circumstances made it almost impossible for me to fast my Ramadan peacefully and with dignity..