Tell people that you're from Kazakhstan and they stare at you blankly. Same country Borat claimed to be from in that awful movie, I usually say, groaning inwardly and idiotic smiles immediately follow. Now they get it. Cultural relativity isn't a concept most people in North America can grasp. My name is Rashida Jabayev and I was born in the City of Kentau,...
"Call me Nana, it's short for Nasira," said the round-faced, pleasantly plump and big-bottomed Somali Muslim gal. Suleiman nodded, and smiled at her. As jaded as he'd become by the age of thirty four, Suleiman couldn't help feeling a certain...something, whenever he was in her presence. At the office building where they worked, Nana was the only one who ackn...
You live, shit happens, and then you die. Life can be summed up thus. And it's the creed that I live by. My name is Adawiyah Abdul-Samad. I was born in the town of Duba in the Tabuk Province of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Ten years ago my family moved to the City of Ottawa, in the Ontario region of Canada. And life has never been the same for us. For starte...
The life of a widow is never easy, whether she's poor, wealthy, or somewhere in between. Such has been the fate of such women since the dawn of time. Montreal-Nord resident Milana Amagov knows this better than most. After her husband Aslan Amagov died a year and a half ago, life has been pure hell for the forty-nine-year-old Chechen Muslim woman. Loneliness...
Standing over the body of Prince Khaled, General Abel raised his head to the heavens, arms wide and howled a cry of triumph which reverberated throughout the palace. Although not a large man, General Khaled had about him an air of quiet authority which hinted at ferocious inner strength. Five feet nine inches tall, slender and dark-skinned, clad in a suit of...
What's up? My name is Derek Shore and I live in the City of Ottawa, Ontario. Tall, lean and athletic, with alabaster skin, green eyes and light brown hair, that's me. I recently graduated from the University of Ottawa and work at KPMG. I am openly bisexual, and have a fondness for dark-skinned men. It's not a fetish, just a preference. Personality matters to...
The year is 1753. Sindh is under the rule of the mighty Maratha empire. Bahadur Rao, the governor of Sindh was inspecting his province along with his cousin brother Vishwanath Rao. Bahadur was the son of a Rajput ruler & his Turkish concubine. He looked around as he continued riding his horse. Just a few months back, he captured Sindh for the Empire. He was...
"Good Muslim girls aren't supposed to mess around with Christian guys, especially the ones who are teaching them," Nabila Osman's best friend Fatima Yassin reminded her, and the young Somali-American Muslim woman nodded sagely, as though heeding her friend's words. The sarcastic glint in Nabila's golden brown eyes told her friend Fatima otherwise. Fatima sig...
"Rashid Jibril, I want you to know that I love you," Suleiman said, smiling as he pulled his arms around the tall, athletic young Somali Muslim man who meant the world to him. Rashid smiled back, and shook his head. All the love he felt for the big and tall, roughly handsome and gifted but terminally confused bisexual Haitian Muslim brother returned. Rashid...
As salam alaikum, dear readers. My name is Maimuna Jibril and I'm a 36-year-old Somali Muslim immigrant woman living in the City of Ottawa, Ontario. Lately, my sinfully sexy lover Stefano Saint-Mathieu, the tall and burly young Haitian guy who stole my heart has been banging the hell out of me. Honestly, I can't get enough of his unique brand of lovemaking....