Mariam Khan

Things ‘about’ who we were and who we were supposed to be and how we were supposed to act.

Muslim women are more than burqas, more than hijabs, and more than society has allowed us to be until now.

My Egyptian family had moved to Saudi Arabia when I was fifteen years old, after almost eight years of living in first London and then Glasgow.

Fatema Mernissi, as well as feminists from other parts of the world.

She’d fallen pregnant with a daughter: me.

It was her professional life and business acumen that drew me to her like a magnet and made her my role model.

We want your hijabs but we don’t want your thoughts; we only want diversity for the pictures

But just because I find myself running a business as a Muslim woman, it does not mean that every Muslim woman is now afforded the pathway to do so.

But who gets to draw up the guidelines on what kind of representation is and isn’t OK?

But the truth is, I cannot expect that everything Muslim women in the public eye do will resonate with my own ideals of what I want to see in the world.