The Nightingale

Author Session with Homely Hammock: Zoom Recording
Hanan and Hafeezah Alsagoff are Singapore sisters who together make up Ukht Husni. They run Homely Hammock. The duo has produced many children’s books and we are grateful to have had the opportunity to speak with them and gain more insight on their creative process, research, and inspirations.
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Book review: Prof Osman Bakar’s Tawhid and Science
This book review session by Dr M Mubarak M Habib was recorded in December 2020.
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Author Session with Kosser Abdul Aziz: Zoom Recording
Reader, we have to read to children. We have to ensure that we raise children who read for enjoyment, for information, and for illumination. We do this by first reading to them.
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Author Session with Dr Mubarak: Zoom Recording
This is a recording of our author session with Dr Muhd Mubarak on 7 December 2020. Dr Muhd Mubarak discusses the life, work, and scholarship of Syed Ahmad bin Muhammad Semait (1933-2006) as outlined in his book Equipping the People...
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Author Session with A. Helwa: Zoom Recording
What stuck with us during the session was not so much what Helwa said but rather how she says things.
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In Conversation With A. Helwa
A. Helwa is a writer who has inspired readers through her passionate, poetic, and love-based approach to spirituality. Her popular blog @quranquotesdaily, was established while obtaining her Masters in Divinity, as a means of helping others overcome personal and spiritual...
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In Conversation With Yahia Lababidi
Yahia Lababidi is an Egyptian-American author of poetry, prose, and aphorisms. Lababidi’s new collection of essays and conversations, Revolutions of the Heart, is available now. Conversation: Ibrahim (Ib): There is no avoiding it, we have to speak about the thing...
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In Conversation With Humairah Jamil
I settled with homebound in the end because I felt that my poems have a sense of grounding the self back to the fact that we are all fleeting, and that we are all on this common journey of seeking light, of coming back home to God.
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In Conversation With Michael Sugich
Some of the stories are raw, with violence, crime and sexuality that may be hard to take at times or seductive, depending upon the reader. Others are lyrical. Some are heartrending. Some are bizarre. They all have a purpose, which is to deconstruct the concept of Tawba, a term commonly translated as repentance but actually meaning ‘to turn’ or ‘to return’.
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