Finding Mr Perfectly Fine by Tasneem Abdur-Rashid is a newly-published romantic comedy that...
Death is Hard Work by Khaled Khalifa (Syria)
[Spoiler alert: This novel is more about the journey than the ending, but if you don't want the...
The Dragonfly Sea by Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor (Kenya/China)
I first came across The Dragonfly Sea shortly after it was published in 2019. It attracted my...
Review: Ayesha Dean – The Istanbul Intrigue by Melati Lum (Australia/Turkey)
While picture books and YA novels by Muslim writers have proliferated in recent years, the...
That Can Be Arranged by Huda Fahmy (USA)
A respectable number of chuckles accompanied my reading the comic-meets-illustrated novella That...
Dubliners by James Joyce (Ireland)
In the past year or so, I have been feeling a lingering fatigue with the indignant, in-your-face...
Twenty Years of Terror (Enemy Combatant by Moazzam Begg)
I bought Enemy Combatant many years ago at a small event where Moazzam Begg was speaking about the...
Eid Giveaway!
Assalamu alaykum! I felt like I didn't quite give Eid the recognition I should have this year, so...
Lala Comics: Muslim Comics With Heart and Humour
Thanks to Umm Sulayman and Tughra Books for providing a complimentary digital copy of this book....
Mini-review: The Door by Magda Szabó (Hungary)
Reading The Door by Magda Szabó was, for me, bittersweet, and quietly saddening. This book...
Mini-Review: The Great Passage by Shion Miura (Japan)
I decided to listen to this book on a whim. I was trying to find an audiobook available on Scribd...
Review: The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See (South Korea)
I'm not particularly familiar with Korean history and geography, although more so than I was when...
Review: Love from A to Z by S.K. Ali (Qatar/USA/Pakistan)
This book received a lot of attention from Muslim readers when it came out and now that I've read...
Mini-Review: Punching the Air by Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam
I don't want to say a lot about this book because I don't want to disturb the feeling I have from...
Review: Servants of Allah by Sylviane A. Diouf
The ladies at The Qarawiyyin Project kindly invited me to suggest a book for one of their book...
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