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Publisher
Picador
Language
English
Description
In 2016, Mariam Khan read that David Cameron had linked the radicalization of Muslim men to the `traditional submissiveness' of Muslim women. Mariam felt pretty sure she didn't know a single Muslim woman who would describe herself that way. Why was she hearing about Muslim women from people who were neither Muslim, nor female? Years later the state of the national discourse has deteriorated even further, and Muslim women's voices are still pushed...
Author
Publisher
Sceptre
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"28-year-old Zeba Talkhani charts her experiences growing up in Saudi Arabia amid patriarchal customs reminiscent of The Handmaid's Tale, and her journey to find freedom in India, Germany and the UK. Talkhani offers a fresh perspective on living as an outsider and examines her relationship with her mother and the challenges she faced when she experienced hair loss at a young age. Rejecting the traditional path her culture had chosen for her, Talkhani...
10) A burning
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After a fiery attack on a train leaves 104 people dead, the fates of three people become inextricably entangled. Jivan, a bright, striving woman from the slums looking for a way out of poverty, is wrongly accused of planning the attack because of a careless comment on Facebook. PT Sir, a slippery gym teacher from Jivan's former high school, has hitched his aspirations to a rising right wing party, and his own ascent becomes increasingly linked to...
Author
Publisher
Kube Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Mostly written while [the author] was traveling, living and studying in Malaysia, South Africa and Yemen, [this book] is a heartfelt and sincere conversation, sprinkled with humor and self-doubt, on the challenges of a modern-day Muslimah. Rest. Read. Reflect. What is He trying to tell you?"--Provided by publisher.
16) Beauty
Author
Publisher
Tindal Street Press
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Beauty, a twenty-year-old Bangladeshi woman who fled an abusive arranged marriage, searches for a job in the United Kindgom, making friends with ex-offender Mark, who is the type of man she has been raised to fear, and Peter, an underachiever coping with a failed relationship, while struggling to come to terms with her conflicting feelings over her desire for personal freedom and family duty.
Author
Publisher
Berkley Romance
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A delightful new contemporary romance by Uzma Jalaluddin, author of Ayesha at Last. Nada Syed is stuck. On the cusp of thirty, she's still living at home with her brothers and parents in the Golden Crescent neighborhood of Toronto, resolutely ignoring her mother's unsubtle pleas to get married already. And while Nada has a good job as an engineer, it's a far cry from realizing her dreams for her tech baby, Ask Apa, the app that launched with a whimper...
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
"Soon after the fall of the Taliban, in 2001, Deborah Rodriguez went to Afghanistan as part of a humanitarian aid group. Surrounded by people whose skills--as doctors, nurses, and therapists--seemed eminently more practical than her own, Rodriguez, a hairdresser and mother from Michigan, despaired of being of any real use. Yet she found she had a gift for befriending Afghans, and once her profession became known she was eagerly sought out by Westerners...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"It's always been Malak, Kees, and Jenna against the world. Since childhood, under the watchful eyes of their parents, aunties and uncles, they've learned to live their own lives alongside the expectations of being good Muslim women...With growing older and the stakes of love and life growing higher, the delicate balancing act between rebellion and religion is becoming increasingly difficult to navigate. As their lives begin to take different paths,...
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