The Nightingale

Newsletter: The Real Entertainment
What a difference a few decades make for today ‘hiboran’, or rather ‘hiburan’ to use the modern spelling, more often than not means sitting in front of the television or gazing at a screen: more distraction than activation
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Author Session with Dr Mubarak: Zoom Recording
This is a recording of our author session with Dr Muhd Mubarak on 7 December 2020. Dr Muhd Mubarak discusses the life, work, and scholarship of Syed Ahmad bin Muhammad Semait (1933-2006) as outlined in his book Equipping the People...
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Reflections on the 2020 Book Club
The Islamic tradition's dynamism has within it continuity, yet a latitude for disruption; unity, yet a regard for difference.
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Newsletter: Turning the Tide
Turning the Tide: Reawakening the Woman's Heart and Soul is very intricately written, and a cursory reader may not appreciate the beauty of its construction. The book is designed to uncover layers and layers of reflection, like waves lapping on the shore, at the edges of our spiritual awareness.
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Newsletter: On Poetry and Kindness
In Islam, poetry (in its many forms) has been a mainstay in devotional expression.
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Author Session with A. Helwa: Zoom Recording
What stuck with us during the session was not so much what Helwa said but rather how she says things.
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Newsletter: Journaling for Understanding and Development
We write not only to record, but more importantly to think through ideas, to integrate them, and to elaborate them in our own words.
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Newsletter: Reading Aloud
Story time is a gift of parental love, a gift that keeps on giving because it establishes the reading habit.
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Newsletter: The Emotion Question
Emotion does not have to be a force that pushes us apart and disperses us into separate cells.
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