It's been 10 years. Why should I write about 9/11? It has consumed my life for 10 years. Isn't that enough? Sometimes I think 9/11 took away the best years of my life.

Maybe I sound like the same 16-year-old high school junior I was on this day 10...

Last Year, during the holy month of Ramadan, I was in Tripoli researching the status of women in Libya's society, along with Journalist and Author Natalie Moore. We interviewed women across the spectrum: artists, housewives, teachers, government officials, university students and businesswomen. The stories were later aired on...

There is a verse in the Holy Quran that captures what is happening in the Arab world today.

"Truly, God does not change the condition of a people until they change what is in themselves." (13:11).

That verse was often cited by ordinary Muslims, scholars and apathetic youth before the...

Today's date is noteworthy. It is the 13th Friday since the uprising began in Libya on February 17. Being Friday the 13th, it's particularly significant if you believe in superstitions -- and Libyans tend to. Libyan aid workers here joked about it being a "Black day" for Gaddafi, and on...

The Arab revolutions of 2011, or "Arab Spring" as it is commonly called, not only challenged political systems and dictators, but people's beliefs, habits, faith and preconceived notions about everything, which set the gender debate on fire. As women took to the streets in protests in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya,...