**“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...

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...

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...

Maize (Zea mays L.) in the Cold: Journey across Latitudes presents a compelling exploration of how one of the world’s most vital crops has expanded from its tropical origins to endure and thrive in cold and temperate regions. As agriculture increasingly faces the challenges of climate variability and low-temperature extremes, this book offers a timely and comprehensive scientific account of maize’s resilience to chilling stress.Structured across seven in-depth chapters, th...

The devastating and gritty fourth novel from Miles Franklin shortlisted author, Michael Mohammed Ahmad.Some scars can never be seen, but will always be felt . . . long after the damage is done.Hamoodi may only be ten years old, but he already knows that to speak out is dangerous. Lessons from the mother-land have taught him that standing out can see you lose everything. Or disappear. In a new place, he has learned to be quiet, contained. He...

This book examines carbon-negative farming systems addressing science, methods, and policy mechanisms for achieving net-negative greenhouse gas outcomes. It covers soil health and carbon sequestration including biochar application, enhanced rock weathering, and plant-soil interactions for carbon capture and storage, and also:Provides comprehensive coverage of carbon-negative farming systems addressing science, methods, and policy mechanisms that enable farms to achieve net-ne...

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...

"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...

This book offers practical advice for our everyday lives taken from the Qur'an and Sunnah. It shows us how to purify our hearts, since a heart that is not pure cannot find tranquillity.

The Veranda of Mecca offers a rare and deeply grounded portrait of Aceh after two defining ruptures: the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami and the 2005 Helsinki peace agreement that ended decades of armed conflict between the Indonesian state and the Free Aceh Movement.Written by Acehnese scholar Kamaruzzaman Bustamam-Ahmad, this book examines how faith, memory, violence, humanitarian reconstruction, Islamic law, political transition, and local identity reshaped one of Sou...