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The Middle Path

Dr. Samaiya Mushtaq

Essays on faith, mind, and modern life from a Muslim psychiatrist and mom.

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Your Mind and Money

I like Excel sheets. I like analyzing why we think what we do, how we make decisions (hence, psychiatry), and how culture and society shape our thoughts and behavior in ways we may not notice.

One area where all this intersects: money....

13 days ago
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Who Gets To Call Texas Home?

Much like when I worked in a psychiatric emergency room, being a writer comes with it the need to develop thick skin. In lieu of psychotic patients hurling obscenities, the response to writing can be the form rejections by editors or the di...

21 days ago
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Marrying a Good Person Isn't Enough

Too often in Desi and/or Muslim communities, we characterize divorce as a character deficiency or a spiritual aberration.

If you marry the “right” person, and you both fear Allah, it all works out fine.

When it doesn’t—when a marriag...

5 months ago
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My Book Is Out

Alhamdulillahi Rabbil 'Alamin. All praise is due to God, the Lord of all worlds.

It’s one of the first verses of the Qur’an—how we end the month, with the start of the next recitation. A continuous relationship, not a finite end.

Last ye...

6 months ago
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What Your Language Reveals About Your Moral Justifications

I remember, some time before Mahmoud left for his medical mission in Gaza, we were walking together in a store and I turned to him and said, “It would be like if the sky just opened up and a bomb fell on us. Right now. That’s how crazy it i...

6 months ago
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