Survive and Thrive

Survive and Thrive

  • Summer 2018
    • Come Hear the New Queer
    • Re-crafting Beer Culture
    • Gun Doves To Hawks
    • Korean Culture Hits US
    • Overworked and Undernourished
    • Boston’s Independent Theaters
    • The Power of DNA and How We Use It
    • How Women Rank in College Sports
    • Transgender Athletes: Prejudice or Positivity?
    • Blockchain and Bitcoin Outlook
    • Weeded Out
    • Perception of Veganism
    • More Than a Headache
  • Summer 2017
    • Aging in Boston
    • Boston Hair Care: Diversity & Choice
    • Climate Change in New York City
    • Listening for a Cure
    • Helping Homeless Stay Healthy
    • Study & Deliver
    • The Tech Divide: Teachers vs. Students
    • Together to Stop Youth Violence
    • Pretty hurts: Behind the clean beauty revolution
  • Spring 2017
    • Psychology of feminism
    • Ready to Lead
    • Running in Heels
    • Single Moms: Struggles and Hopes
    • Trips and Treatment
    • Unspoken and Untreated
    • Working at 50+
    • Zero Waste, Infinite Impact
  • Spring 2016
    • Accommodating Transgender
    • All in: Indian Gaming
    • Alone with Food Allergies
    • A Way to Innocence
    • Facing Anti-Muslim Hatred
    • Millennials Move In
    • Our Bodies, Our Struggle
    • Robotics: On a Limb
    • Service Dogs: Fact & Fiction
    • Staying on Pointe
    • Surviving Intimate Trauma
    • Two Homelands, One Love
  • Spring 2015
    • Back to Basics: Holistic Health
    • Beauty Expectations of Black Women
    • Boston 2024 Olympics
    • #BostonFitnessFads
    • Boston Mindfulness
    • Ca$hing in on Cyber$ecurity
    • Exposing Local Anti-Semitism
    • Families Serving Time
    • Fueling the Future
    • Helping the Homeless
    • Heroin: Beyond the Addiction
    • Mobile Language Learning
    • Overdose Oversight
    • Regrowing NE’s Country Roots
    • Robots Among Us
    • Self-image: Beyond the Scale
    • Styling Beantown
    • Tackling Combat Sports
    • The Algorithm Revolution
    • Through Boston Teachers’ Eyes
    • Toxic Nails
    • Wanted: More Women Leaders
    • World-Class Boston?
  • Spring 2014
    • Big Effect of Small-time Football
    • Bike Friendly Boston
    • Birth: Au Naturale
    • Bottle Bill Battle
    • Coastal Conversion
    • Deportation: Brink of Separation
    • Gay, Young and Homeless
    • Girls, STEM and Startups
    • HIV Positive Outlook
    • Immigrant Women & Domestic Abuse
    • Lost at 18
    • Nutrition Literacy
    • Recycling: 1 Bin or 2?
    • Reviving the Written Word
    • Treating Sexual Assault Remotely
    • Vinyl’s Comeback?
  • Archive
    • Fall 2013
      • Big Data in Health Care
      • Helping the Hungry
      • Lost at 18
      • Rehabbing Urban Wildlife
      • Startup Beauties
      • Sustainable Action
    • Spring 2013
      • Asperger’s in Adulthood
      • Chinese Grad Student Boom
      • Community in CrossFit
      • Death by Rx
      • Degreed and Underemployed
      • Geek is Chic
      • Growing Up Muslim
      • Nitrogen Nightmare?
      • Pit Bull Perception
      • Preservin’ the Classics
      • Right to Learn?
      • U.S. Women Made in China
      • Unsolved Gun Violence
      • Young & Homeless
    • Fall 2012
      • Better Workspaces
      • Black Beauty?
      • Broke Not Broken
      • Cheering Challenges
      • Going Social
      • Rainbow Religion
      • Style in Boston
      • The Play State
      • The Sporting Epidemic

Growing Up Muslim

After the deadly attacks of 9/11, the immigrant Muslim community in Boston found itself under a constant gaze of suspicion and hatred. Since then, the community members have been fighting stereotypes and their own fears by getting involved in religious activism.

Dinner that serves more than food

May 1, 2013 Shazia Yousuf 0

Weekly Harvard dinner provides community for Muslim college students.

Somalian war refugees: Terror followed them everywhere

May 1, 2013 Shazia Yousuf 0

Somali refugees recount Muslim bias on Boston streets and in its schools.

“No, I am not a Muslim”: Confrontation forces denial

April 29, 2013 Shazia Yousuf 0

After 9/11, American immigrant Muslims became scared of their own identity. Some kept it secret for years to avoid becoming targets of crime and hatred.

Haircuts move behind the curtain for Muslim women

April 29, 2013 Shazia Yousuf 0

Where do Muslim women, who wear headscarves, go for haircuts in Boston? The answer is Faron Salon.

Non-Muslims don hijab for a day of awareness

April 29, 2013 Shazia Yousuf 0

Boston University students answer hijab challenge.

About the Author

  • Shazia Yousuf

    Born and raised in Indian-administered Kashmir, Shazia worked as a social affairs correspondent for a local news magazine: KashmirLife. After earning a fellowship under the Ford Fellowships Program, she came to United States in 2011 to pursue her Master’s degree in Print and Multimedia Journalism. Shazia is passionate about reporting on minority and gender issues.

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