{"id":11444,"date":"2017-03-30T21:53:02","date_gmt":"2017-03-31T02:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/?p=11444"},"modified":"2017-04-15T21:54:11","modified_gmt":"2017-04-16T02:54:11","slug":"hijabi-by-mona-haydar-wrap-my-hijab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/2017\/03\/30\/hijabi-by-mona-haydar-wrap-my-hijab\/","title":{"rendered":"Hijabi by Mona Haydar (Wrap my Hijab)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leyal Khalife: Mona Haydar, a Syrian Muslim-American poet and activist, released her first-ever single and rap music video in honor of the world&#8217;s first-ever Muslim Women&#8217;s Day on Mar 27 &#8230; all while she&#8217;s pregnant.<\/p>\n<p>Given the current rise of Islamophobia around the world, Haydar wanted to fight the hate. And what better way to do that than with music?<\/p>\n<p>This wouldn&#8217;t be the first time Haydar challenges stereotypes surrounding Islam.<br \/>\nHaydar alongside her husband Sebastian Robins, who converted to Islam in 2012 after meeting her, have been trying to &#8220;conquer fear through conversation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Following the terrorist attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, the couple started the #AskAMuslim initiative, where they set up booths around Cambridge, Massachusetts to talk to people who have questions.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XOX9O_kVPeo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leyal Khalife: Mona Haydar, a Syrian Muslim-American poet and activist, released her first-ever single and rap music video in honor of the world&#8217;s first-ever Muslim Women&#8217;s Day on Mar 27 &#8230; all while she&#8217;s pregnant. Given the current rise of Islamophobia around the world, Haydar wanted to fight the hate. And what better way to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/2017\/03\/30\/hijabi-by-mona-haydar-wrap-my-hijab\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hijabi by Mona Haydar (Wrap my Hijab)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[12,15,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11444"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11445,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11444\/revisions\/11445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}