Corner Office Shaikh

Driven by curiosity’s sake.

  • 5 Things That Help Me Keep the Ramadan Spirit Going

    Its another set of 10 days- those of Dhul Hajj.  Hajj…sigh.  Well if you can’t go for Hajj, there are the 10 days leading into Eid and the most important day for everyone, regardless if you’re performing Hajj or not, is the Day of Arefa.  As those 10 days start (today), I was reflecting on… Read more

  • Cutting the Cable Cord

    I went through six years of living without cable connection.  This wasn’t as hard as some might think it would be because growing up my family didn’t get basic cable until I got to Junior High.  When I say I grew up on public access television, its no lie, thats all we picked up out… Read more

  • “Argo”- lacking the right kind of #MuslimRage

    Argo is a movie about how the CIA took out a group of Americans who hid in a Canadian diplomats house after the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis in Tehran.  Que up angry bearded men, yelling- no chanting- “death to America” and “America is Great Satan”, militants brandishing AK-47’s and all the other crazy that goes… Read more

  • Fixing Your Broken Amazon Kindle Screen

    If you can’t fix your Amazon Kindle, then please proceed to buy it here, you will help fund my reading hobby! Happy 2 years to my best friend, my companion through the loneliness and long travels!  It is a very very happy day indeed because my best friend survived an ordeal that involved opening its… Read more

  • Finding Your Inner Social Butterfly- A Way to Network Like a Pro

    “Great another networking event!”  The fact that being inebriated makes you less conscious of your behavior, thus making the tedious task of “small talk socializing” at the event easier makes for an attractive reason to drink (sip here won’t hurt!).  But if you choose to stick to the halal/haram distinction (the sunnah and Quranic mandate) then… Read more

  • Talking to Someone For Marriage?- 6 Strategies That You Shouldn’t Use To End Things

    The process for marriage is arduous riddled with all sorts of stumbling blocks because there are no hard and fast rules to help guide “the process” just a few bright-lines.  Very few “rules” are followed.  A lot of Muslim experiences are actually cultural norms, often times conflicting with our American social environment.  I wrote up… Read more

  • “Lesbian Bully Ranch” and other weird search terms

    Running a blog is an endeavor in the bizarre and sometimes outright freaky.  While the intertubes is filled with anonymity behind which people can often hide their true nature site administrators are privy to the types of people attracted to their sites.  Thats where this post comes in, while I haven’t really built a following… Read more

  • Syria- The Conundrum of Defining Terrorism

    Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moallem’s speech during the 67th session of the United Nations General Assembly at the U.N. accused some security council members- France, UK and the US- of supporting “terrorism” in the country.  The rebels fighting with the Free Syrian Army on the other hand areissuing a dire warning that as the opposition continues it has… Read more

  • Humility- A Life Long Journey toward rediscovering a lost art

    In the first post on humility- Two Ducks and a Tortoise– I explored my recent humbling experience and also began distinguishing the characteristic that humanity the world over considers a virtue with what Ghandi described as the “arrogant caricature” of humility when the virtue lacks truth, which in its essence is a person acting out… Read more

  • No, thats not a Gay Festival. Its Muslim guys hanging out.

    I feel that I might lack the requisite language and intellectual prowess to write about my observations of being a Muslim guy in an American Muslim experience where certain norms of male behavior seem out of sync with Western norms (majority) and from an outside perspective norms of Islamic traditions.   Part of the difficulty… Read more