Weddings always have their fair share of drama, but this one comes on the heels of the highly controversial 2009 Iranian election and ensuing Green Wave protests.When the matriarch of Sarah’s family arranged her marriage to Ali, it was with the intention of uniting two compatible families. However, as the 2009 election becomes contentious, political differences emerge and Sarah’s conservative family tries to call off the wedding. Sarah and Ali, however, have fallen in love and, aga...

The Spring 2024 Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and now provides readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats. Find out why the New York Times named Ploughshares “the Triton among minnows.”The Spring 2024 Issue, guest-edited by Laila Lalami, features poetry and prose by Mosab Abu Toha, Nathalie Handal, January...

Weddings always have their fair share of drama, but this one comes on the heels of the highly controversial 2009 Iranian election and ensuing Green Wave protests.When the matriarch of Sarah’s family arranged her marriage to Ali, it was with the intention of uniting two compatible families. However, as the 2009 election becomes contentious, political differences emerge and Sarah’s conservative family tries to call off the wedding. Sarah and Ali, however, have fallen in love and, aga...

In a moment of idle curiosity, Musa tries on the modest garb of a Muslim woman to experience for himself what it's like to be veiled. While this causes much mirth among his fellow students at the Madrasah, the elders are not amused, viewing Musa's experimentation as a prank too far. Back at home he must conform to family life and face the prospect of an arranged marriage. Cleverly, the family patriarch, Dadaji, offers him a deal: a month of days to find himself a bride or else Musa must ac...

Powerful, emotional, and beautifully written, Alan Drew’s stunning first novel brings to life two unforgettable families–one Kurdish, one American–and the sacrifice and love that bind them together.In a small town outside Istanbul,Sinan Basioglu, a devout Muslim, and his wife, Nilüfer, are preparing for their nine-year-old son’s coming-of-age ceremony. Their headstrong fifteen-year-old daughter, İrem, resents the attention her brother, Ismail, receives from their parents. For her, ...

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The English Turkish Joke Book is an excellent way for Turkish people to practise their English - and for foreigners who are trying to learn Turkish. Great jokes like:"Sigara ve içki içme hakkında öyle çok kitap okudum ki bırakmaya karar verdim.""Sigarayı mı içkiyi mi?;""Okumayı"or this classicBir ilkokul öğretmeni otobüste oturuyordu. Karşısındaki adamı tanıdığına oldukça emindi."Afedersiniz" dedi, "fakat, siz benim çocuklarımdan birinin babası ...

Book 1 of The Desert SheikhSheikh Akbar needs a hostage.Sarah Greenwich needs to escape.But sometimes what you need is not what you want.When a powerful sheikh kidnaps Dr. Sarah Greenwich, she leads him to believe that she is the wife of the British ambassador, but how long will she be able to keep up the deception and what will happen to her when the sheikh finds out that she has been lying to him?Sarah is about to discover that the desert is an exotic...

The god of the earth and the goddess of the sky can't stay away from one another...even when they're forbidden to be together.Nut knows she shouldn't spend all of her time with Geb, but she can't help herself when she's around him.When their forbidden relationship is discovered, the other gods take steps that Nut never thought possible and bans her from giving birth to the children she's carrying.Can she find enough allies to reverse the decision an...

For fans of A Thousand Splendid Suns, “a rich, haunting, immersive story of cultures at the crossroads” (Jamie Ford, bestselling author of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet) that follows two women in Afghanistan—an American aid worker and her local interpreter—as they form an unexpected friendship despite their utterly different life experiences and the ever-increasing violence in Kabul.In 2001, Kabul is a place of possibili...

A hippo goddess and a crocodile god are needed to help the Nile before it's too late.When the river Nile doesn't flood like it's supposed to, the gods turn to hippo goddess, Taweret, to help with the problem.Even with Taweret and Sobek's collective magic, they fail to find the problem, until they come across Isis on the side of the Nile.Can they bring back the floods before it's too late?-Bringer Of The River Waters is an origin story to ...

The Eye Of Ra yearns for freedom, can she find it with the god of wisdom?Despite her self-imposed exile, the gods want the Eye of Ra back.But Nehmetawy doesn't want to be used as a weapon anymore and wants to stay free. When Thoth turns up to try and charm her into returning, she's determined to resist his advances.Soon their conversations lead to more, and neither of them are able to ignore the connection between them.-Collector of Sand ...