On her wedding day, Maryam is ready to make her escape. Again. With her fiancé nowhere to be found and her family in a frenzy, Maryam is more than ready to ditch the whole affair. But when her fiancé, Ali, appears and helps her escape, she's left wondering what's going on.As Maryam and Ali embark on a journey to freedom, they're forced to confront their feelings for each other and the expectations of their families. With Ali's quiet support and Maryam's stubborn determination, they navigat...

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single woman in a Kuwaiti household, must be in want of a husband. And so the search starts, not with a glass slipper, but with an interrogation. A Kuwaiti woman sits through several meetings with potential candidates. Will any stick on for the next stage of courtship? For those not living in Kuwait: one of the ways a woman meets her prospective husband is for the man's family to call the woman's parents for an initial meeting. He will come ov...

This Step 4 Biography Reader shares the inspiring story of Malala Yousafzai, the youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. Even as a young girl in Pakistan, Malala spoke up about the importance of girls’ education, via speeches and a blog. Since the Taliban regime was intent on denying girls an education and silencing anyone who disagreed with their laws, this was very dangerous. Malala was shot, but she survived the attack and it did not silence her. In fact, she spoke at the United Na...

In this short story, an American college student converts to Islam and makes the decision to wear all black and cover her face. But she faces opposition from where she least expects, from Muslims.

*Faith and Hope lived a pleasant childhood with their family until there was a terrible turn of events that changed their lives forever. A war started abruptly and took away Adam, the twins’ father.To keep them safe, their mother Noor, made the painful decision to give the twins away for adoption with the hope that they will stay together. But things didn’t happen as planned.Hope and Faith started a long journey by following different paths. They both have their struggles. ...

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • "A powerful, capacious, and profound" (Ocean Vuong) new collection of poems about life in Gaza by an acclaimed Palestinian poet and Pulitzer Prize-winning writerYou are alivefor a momentwhen living peoplerun after you.Barely thirty years old, Mosab Abu Toha was already a well-known poet when the current siege of Gaza began. After the Israeli army bombed and des...

An extraordinary story, never before told: The intimate, behind-the-scenes life of an American boy raised by his terrorist father—the man who planned the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.What is it like to grow up with a terrorist in your home? Zak Ebrahim was only seven years old when, on November 5th, 1990, his father El-Sayyid Nosair shot and killed the leader of the Jewish Defense League. While in prison, Nosair helped plan the bombing of the World Trade Center ...

**"This is not just good storytelling, but a blueprint for survival." —The New York Times Book ReviewA transfixing and beautifully rendered novel about a refugee’s escape from civil war—and the healing power of community.**A young woman sits in her apartment, watching the small daily dramas of her neighbors across the way. She is an outsider, a mute voyeur, safe behind her windows, and she sees it all—the sex, the fights, the happy and unhappy families. Journeying ...

In this graphic memoir, the National Book Award finalist shares her "frank, funny" story of finding a husband as an observant Muslim woman in America (NPR Morning Edition).Chaperones, suitors, and arranged marriages aren't only reserved for the heroines of a Jane Austen novel. They're just another walk in the park for this leading lady, who is on a mission to find her leading lad. From the brilliant comics Yes, I'm Hot in This, Huda Fahmy tells the hilariou...

Sixteen-year-old Raphaelle says the wrong thing, antagonizes the wrong people and has the wrong attitude. She can't do anything right except draw, but she draws the wrong pictures. When her father moves the family to a small prairie city, Raphaelle wants to make a new start. Reborn as "Ella," she tries to fit in at her new school. She's drawn to Samir, a Muslim boy in her art class, and expresses her confused feelings in explicit art. When a classmate texts a photo of Ella's art to a young...

"Pieces" is a never-ending story, one that cannot be erased from memory. It is the cry of Gaza that still echoes between the walls of demolished houses, the pain of Jerusalem that refuses to subside, and the longing of Jaffa that will not die."Pieces" is a written testimony of pain, loss, and unwavering resilience. Through its poems, it tells the tragedies of the war of extermination in Gaza, but it also opens a window to the wounded hearts of all the cities in Palestine. Each poem...

What is political poetry? How does history become lived experience? What does it mean to bear witness through writing?Noor Hindi’s poems explore colonialism, religion, patriarchy and everything in between with sharp wit and innovative precision. Layered to reflect the intersections of her identity, while constantly interrogating this identity itself, her writing combines lyrical beauty with political urgency.This collection is ultimately a provocation―on trauma, on art, on wh...