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Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A memoir of Karachi through the eyes of its women. Rafia Zakaria's Muslim-Indian family immigrated to Pakistan from Bombay in 1962, feeling the situation for Muslims in India was precarious and that Pakistan represented enormous promise. And for some time it did. Her family prospered, and the city prospered. But in the 1980s, Pakistan's military dictators began an Islamization campaign designed to legitimate their rule--a campaign that particularly...
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
383 pages ; 22cm
Language
English
Description
A romantic thriller where the future changes in the blink of an eye . . . or does it?
Miriam is a Saudi princess promised to another, a pawn in a political struggle that could shift the balance of power in the Middle East.
Seth is a certified genius with a head full of numbers, a life full of baggage, and an attitude born on the waves of the Pacific.
Cultures collide when they find themselves thrown together as fugitives in a high-stakes chase...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 326 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Thwarting cultural expectations to accept a job for a Republican Senate candidate, unconventional Muslim girl Zainab Mir generates controversy in her community while winning the love of a neoconservative talk radio host.
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 270 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Ibtihaj Muhammad's path to Olympic greatness has been marked with opposition and near-debilitating challenges because of her race, religion, and gender. As the only woman of color and the only religious minority on the U.S. women's saber team, she had to push past sterotypes, misconceptions, and negativity to find her own path to success and Olympic Glory. Her reflection provides an unflinching and honest portrayal of how she managed to stay true...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
134 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"At nine years old, Amani Al-Khatahtbeh watched from her home in New Jersey as two planes crashed into the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. That same year, she heard her first racial slur. At age eleven, when the United States began their invasion in Iraq and the television was flooded with anti-Muslim commentary, Amani felt overwhelmed with feelings of intense alienation from American society. At thirteen, her family took a trip to her father's...
7) Internment
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Lexile measure
HL 660L
Language
English
Description
"Rebellions are built on hope. In a horrifying near-future United States, seventeen-year-old Layla Amin and her parents are forced into an internment camp for Muslim American citizens. With the help of new friends also trapped within the internment camp, her boyfriend on the outside, and an unexpected alliance, Layla begins a journey to fight for freedom, leading a revolution against the camp's Director and his guards" -- Page [4] cover.
Author
Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
214 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Zuhour, an Omani student at a British university, is caught between the past and the present. As she attempts to form friendships and assimilate in Britain, she can't help but ruminate on the relationships that have been central to her life. Most prominent is her strong emotional bond with Bint Amir, a woman she always thought of as her grandmother, who passed away just after Zuhour left the Arabian Peninsula. As the historical narrative of Bint...
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
304 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Documents the author's conversion from all-American atheist to Islam, a journey marked by her decision to relocate to Cairo, romance with a passionate young Egyptian, and her efforts to balance the virtues of both cultures.
10) Woman in Islam
Author
Pub. Date
1981
Physical Desc
204 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
Language
English
11) Blackwater Falls
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Girls from immigrant communities have been disappearing for months in the Colorado town of Blackwater Falls, but the local sheriff is slow to act and the fates of the missing girls largely ignored. At last, the calls for justice become too loud to ignore when the body of a star student and refugee--the Syrian teenager Razan Elkader--is positioned deliberately in a mosque. Detective Inaya Rahman and Lieutenant Waqas Seif of the Denver Police are recruited...
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
xiv, 299 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color portraits ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Presents the lives and accomplishments of individual Muslim women living in the United States, discussing their roles as mothers, social workers, business executives, doctors, teachers, and human rights advocates.
16) Minaret
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
276 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In her Muslim hijab, with her downturned gaze, Najwa is invisible to most eyes, especially to the rich families whose houses she cleans." "Twenty years ago, Najwa then at university in Khartoum, would never have imagined that one day she would be a maid. An upper-class, westernised Sudanese, her dreams were to marry well and raise a family. But Najwa's days of innocence ended when a military coup forced the young woman and her family into political...
Author
Publisher
Arcade Publishing
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
322 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : chiefly color illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"This enthralling story of the making of an American is also a timely meditation on religion and culture. Threading My Prayer Rug is a richly textured reflection on what it is to be a Muslim in America today. It is also the luminous story of many journeys: from Pakistan to the United States in an arranged marriage that becomes a love match lasting forty years; from secular Muslim in an Islamic society to devout Muslim in a society ignorant of Islam,...
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st Scribner hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
431 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Iran in 1576 is a place of wealth and dazzling beauty. But when the Shah dies without having named an heir, the court is thrown into tumult. Princess Pari, the Shah's daughter and protégé, knows more about the inner workings of the state than almost anyone, but the princess's maneuvers to instill order after her father's sudden death incite resentment and dissent. Pari and her closest adviser, Javaher, a eunuch able to navigate the harem as well...