Language and multilingualism, the emotions associated with learning a heritage language, living in...
As Long As the Lemon Trees Grow by Zoulfa Katouh (Focus: Syria)
Set in 2011-ish blockaded Homs, squarely in the crosshairs of the Syrian military's inhumane...
Cocoon by Zhang Yueran (Focus: China)
When is a crime thriller not really a thriller but more of a series of self-discoveries on the...
Review: Cynical Theories by Helen Pluckrose and James A. Lindsay
I have been feeling increasingly uncomfortable with some of the ideas and attitudes manifested in...
Mini-ep: Un homme, ça ne pleure pas by Faïza Guène (Algeria/France) – English trans.: Men Don’t Cry
On this journey, a casual tour of this French Algerian novel exploring - Alienation between...
Mini-review: The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (Focus: India)
Through this book, I have discovered a master audiobook narrator. Aysha Kala did an amazing job of...
Finding Mr Perfectly Fine by Tasneem Abdur-Rashid (UK/Bengali)
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...
There’s No Melancholy in Modernity (Film: Persuasion, 2022 (UK))
The new film adaptation of Jane Austen's Persuasion was introduced to me through generally...
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...
4 Western Muslim YA books available on Scribd
Sometimes, we just want to read something light that also aligns with our Islamic beliefs. If...
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...
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