Staff & Contributors

  • Dalecia Young is a wife, mother, and founder of SAKYNA Magazine. She is passionate about her faith and family, and enjoys expressing this love through her pursuit in all things handmade, homemade, and homegrown.
  • D. Salah is Co-editor of SAKYNA Magazine, and an ESL teacher living and working in Cairo, Egypt.
  • Solo mother, peace advocate, and SAKYNA Magazine’s Assistant Editor Aneesa Ahad reverted to Islam in 2007. She currently lives in Bellingham, Washington where she works on local sustainability projects and advocates for Islamic awareness and community.
  • Khadra Abdullahi is a poet and artist in pursuit of the sweetness of faith. She enjoys spending time with her beautiful children,writing, painting , reading and quiet time in her Garden. She resides in San Diego.
  • Aisha Alahmad is a fiber artist, herbalist, and the owner of the Tumbleweed Kids etsy shop. She enjoys the outdoors and learning with her husband and four daughters. Her shop can be found at www.tumbleweedkids.etsy.com
  • Brooke Benoit is an America artist who is home-educating her children in Casablanca, Morocco. Amongst her many interests and concerns are radical education reform, sustainable living practices, self-expression, and discovery through art, and sisterly love.
  • Farhana Faruq is a graphic designer who loves to create more than just printed words. You can find more craft ideas on her blog  at www.sketchedsoul.blogspot.com
  • Stacy Graff is a wife and mother of 2 boys who has lived in Cairo, Egypt for the past 7 years. She is one of the founders of Studio Arabiya, an online teaching program, which connects qualified Arabic and Quran teachers in Egypt to students in the West. You can learn more about online Arabic and Qur’an classes at www.studioarabiya.com
  • Lateefah Muhammad is a mother of 4 children; 2 boys and 2 girls. She is also step-mother to her husband’s 3 daughters. She has a bachelors degree in Marketing and works from home as a web developer. When not busy with mommy-duty, she enjoys poetry, photography and traveling. You can read more from the author at www.lateefahmuhammad.com
  • Debbie Qalballah is creator, editor and writer of new e-zine venture ‘Seasonal Living and Learning’, a quarterly e-zine that offers crafts, education, homesteading tips and recipes for all the family. Join Debbie on her own personal blog My So Called Life {and other lies} in the adventure of her days as a homeschooling homesteading crafty Muslim mama in the UK.
  • Ameera Rahim is a homemaking, homeschooling mom of 5, that resides in NY. She can be often found blogging with her beloved husband Ameer Idris at Habeebee Homeschooling and sharing a love of homemaking at Traditional Muslimah Homemaker. When she is not homemaking and homeschooling she enjoys making homemade bread.