Peacemindedly Sara Jamshidi

In this podcast episode, Sara Jamshidi explains how she decided to take her anger to nature, and how God showed her mercy and beauty.Please go to

Niloofar Hamedi and Elahe Mohammadi were among the first journalists to cover Mahsa Amini’s death, the 22-year-old woman who was detained by Iran’s morality police for improper hijab, and then died in the hospital.
Time Magazine named Hamedi and Mohammadi "two of the most Influential People of 2023". They are also awarded for Conscience and Integrity in Journalism at Harvard University.

I've been obsessed with eco-friendly, minimal, or what we often call these days: green living. My obsession is not new. I've been invested in this topic as long as I can remember.
Back in the mid-1980s I lived in Tehran when Iran was defending itself against the U.S.-supported Iraq attack. The war went on, read the rest here.

I yelled at my kind husband for opening my Amazon box … because he ruined my TikTok video!! It wasn’t nice, neither an act of kindness. I do not recommend it!

I turned the engine on and saw the arrow for the car tank on dashboard turned all the way to full. I was so grateful for the kindness of my husband!

This pioneering book makes an innovative contribution to Muslim feminist ethics. It is grounded in a collection of religious sermons (khutbahs) by contemporary Muslim women in a variety of new and emerging contexts, in South Africa, Senegal, Egypt, Malaysia, Pakistan, Indonesia, Canada, Mexico, the United States, Germany, Denmark, and the United Kingdom.
Here, I’m talking with Sa’diyya Shaikh and Fatima Seedat, authors of The Women’s Khutbah Book: Contemporary Sermons on Spirituality and Justice from around the World.
Sa’diyya Shaikh is an associate professor in the Department for the Study of Religion at the University of Cape Town and the author of Sufi Narratives of Intimacy: Ibn ‘Arabī, Gender, and Sexuality.
Fatima Seedat is head of the Department of African Feminist Studies at the University of Cape Town