**“Beautiful and piercing stories about the burdens women and men bear, detailed with tender and understated precision.”—Nobel Prize-winner Abdulrazak Gurnah, author of Afterlives and TheftIn a searing collection by the award-winning author of The Return of Faraz Ali, characters seek to make their futures their own in a Pakistan riven by class, gender and religion**In these seven powerful stories, Aamina Ahmad finds a world of pathos in the narrow...

What does it mean to belong to the Malay world in the twenty-first century?From the shores of Aceh to the cultural landscapes of Melaka and the historical memory of Patani, Of Salt and Tamarind explores the long and complex relationship between Islam, identity, and the making of the Malay world in Southeast Asia.Moving beyond narrow national boundaries, this book traces how trade, migration, religious scholarship, political authority, and cultural exchange...

The Clothesline Swing is a journey through the troublesome aftermath of the Arab Spring. A former Syrian refugee himself, Ramadan unveils an enthralling tale of courage that weaves through the mountains of Syria, the valleys of Lebanon, the encircling seas of Turkey, the heat of Egypt and finally, the hope of a new home in Canada.Inspired by One Thousand and One Nights, The Clothesline Swing tells the epic story of two lovers anchored to the memory of a d...

"Two people, one city, different times; connected by a memoir. Can love exist in a city destined for decades of misery?"Adnan leads a weary existence as a bookshop owner in modern-day, war-torn Baghdad, where bombings, corruption and assault are everyday occurrences and the struggle to survive has suffocated the joy out of life for most. But when he begins to clean out his bookshop of forty years to leave his city in search of somewhere safer, he comes acr...

If you truly love Allah, you will die for him. Your death will mean much reward for you and your family in heaven. Only death will prove your love.It was the final test. A chance to win not only the love of Allah, but the love of her father―something she had never been able to earn. Esther took a deep breath and raised her hand in the air. At the age of eighteen, she had just volunteered to become a suicide bomber.Defying Jihad is the true...

Are you a Black or minority entrepreneur facing start-up or growth challenges due to limited access to funding, resources, mentorship, or guidance?Do you feel left out of the fast-paced world of entrepreneurship - like thedoors that open easily for others stay locked for you?These hurdles are real. But they are not the end of your story.This guide gives you a proven roadmap for navigating the full range of entrepren...

"Wars, an embargo, and forbidden love in this once peaceful city..."With the drums of war just weeks away, Omar invites all those closest to his heart for lunch at his lavish villa overlooking the Tigris River of Baghdad. He can't help but smile at the faces that have graced his eventful life that spans from an interesting childhood, the two Gulf Wars, and the inhumane embargo that crippled the nation. Loved ones come together, probably for the last time, ...

An intoxicating drama set in the world of New York City’s elite, A Killer in the Family explores the underside of the American dream and asks, what happens when you marry into a family that keeps secrets?It’s time for Ali, a good-natured Mumbai party-boy, to grow up. The first step to settling down is an arranged marriage to Maryam, the daughter of Abbas Khan, a New York real estate tycoon. She’s pretty, demure, and respectable—unlike her sister, Farhan, a...

To my earthly father, my only worth was through my death.But God saw me so differently that, at first, I could barely comprehend it.Esther Ahmad thought she knew the way to earn her Muslim father’s love. She raised her hand for the suicide mission, her martyrdom guaranteeing her family a place in heaven.But God had a different mission for Esther—a journey out of Pakistan, from despair to hope, from shame to purity, and from Allah’s wrath to a Father...

Highly-acclaimed discussion of the Islamic path for the physical moral and spiritual progress of man. "The ideas are very profound and very true." – Count Tolstoy Russia

**NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES AND NPRWINNER OF THE 2023 L.A. TIMES ART SEIDENBAUM AWARD“Stunning not only on account of the author’s talent, of which there is clearly plenty, but also in its humanity.” —New York Times Book Review (cover)Sent back to his birthplace—Lahore’s notorious red-light district—to hush up the murder of a girl, a man finds himself in an unexpected reckoning with his past.**Not since childhood h...

What does it mean to be human when the future is being engineered for us?Written from the northern tip of Sumatra rather than from Silicon Valley, The Future of the World is a bold, wide-ranging meditation on the civilization now taking shape around us—what the author calls the Planetary Civilization. Drawing on philosophy, anthropology, the study of the future, and a scholar's long engagement with geopolitics, security, and intelligence, Kamaruzzaman Bustamam-Ahmad asks t...