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Articles by Kamila Ahmad

The Desert Traveller’s Prayer

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By Zeena Mubarak, Kamila Ahmad, Sugbon Oluwa, Proud Maryaam
| Medium
Image: silhouette of camel in the desert. Photo by Mariam Soliman on Unsplash If I will not emerge alive at the other end, please make my body a meal I commit myself into this journey, knowing fully that something waits for me. What waits for me, I do not know. Sugbon Oluwa, know that I have left my home because it is a catalogue of tears. If I will not emerge alive at the other end, please make my body a meal for the beasts of the sky so that as they fly, I continue my voyage.
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Cognitive deterioration can lead to impulsive decisions

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By Kamila Ahmad, of Pennsylvania
| Medical Xpress Verified
Credit: University of Pennsylvania Deterioration of a part of the brain known as the medial temporal lobe can cause an older adult to make more impulsive decisions. One decision-making process—temporal discounting—places a greater value on a smaller and immediate outcome while dismissing a better but delayed outcome: instant gratification, in other words.
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Proud Maryaam

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By Kamila Ahmad
| Medium
By Kamila Ahmad My inception was poetic, with Aunt Maryaam at the helm. Image: open Qur'an held by Black hands. Photo by Fauzan My from Pixabay I'm a fourth-generation Sunni Muslim. I was born to a Black Muslim woman who was born to a Black Muslim woman who was born to a Black Muslim woman. Growing up, my grandmother would tell me about her times in Egypt and Lebanon with her Aunt Maryaam, who was one of two girls of six children to my great-great-grandparents...
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