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Lur Alghurabi

So Many Rules to Break: On the Struggles of a Modern Muslim

Lur Alghurabi, Literary Hub, September 2018

We were technically perfect for each other. Two Shia Iraqis, not too liberal, not too conservative, kind, young, educated, from loving families who supported us all they could. If we were to fail against all these odds, despite doing everything as God wanted, something must really be wrong with us. So we tried our hardest not to fail, even when the more we learned about each other the more disappointed we became.

(Note: this essay was first published in The Lifted Brow)

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