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ARC Review: Finding Peace through Prayer and Love by Sidra Ansari

Beacon Books, 2020. A Must-Read Book for Muslim Women In “Finding Peace Through Prayer and Love”, Sidra Ansari writes, “…it is the things that people feel they have no control over that they need the most help with.” This is just one of the many insightful gems she shares in this publication from Beacon Books. […]

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Where The Streets Had A Name

Read Where the Streets Had a Name by Randa Abdel-Fattah. Written by the acclaimed author of the YA novel Does My Head Look Big in This?, Abdel-Fattah writes on a topic that children’s book publishers and even writers avoid but she handles her subject matter with prowessand great storytelling. The story is about Hayaat, a […]

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Does My Head Look Big In This? :A Review

  Sixteen-year-old and 11th grader Amal makes the decision to start wearing the hijab full-time and everyone has a reaction. Her parents, her teachers, her friends, people on the street. But she stands by her decision to embrace her faith and all that it is, even if it does make her a little different from […]

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Review: The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

THE KITE RUNNER, Khaled Hosseini’s debut novel, follows the story of two Afghan boys: Amir, the protagonist and son of a wealthy Kabul trader, and Hassan, the son of Ali, a servant in the household of Amir’s father. Despite their differences, Amir and Hassan grow to be friends, although Amir is troubled by Hassan’s subservience, and his relationship with his him is ambivalent and complex. Also […]