Umm Sulayman, perhaps better known as Lala on Instagram, is the author and illustrator of the...
Eid Giveaway!
Assalamu alaykum! I felt like I didn't quite give Eid the recognition I should have this year, so...
How does getting up for Fajr help the Ummah? (USA: Two Gods (documentary film))
On this journey, I explore the newly-released documentary film Two Gods and discuss How the...
Lala Comics: Muslim Comics With Heart and Humour
Thanks to Umm Sulayman and Tughra Books for providing a complimentary digital copy of this book....
Muslim Book Projects Seeking Funding This Ramadan
I recently came across a couple of exciting and innovative book projects by Muslims seeking...
Podcast: Can History Ever Really Be Erased? (Focus: China: Beijing Coma by Ma Jian)
On this journey, I consider how history continues to exist despite efforts to erase it and the...
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...
Mini-review: The Door by Magda Szabó (Hungary)
Reading The Door by Magda Szabó was, for me, bittersweet, and quietly saddening. This book...
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...
Book News: New 43-volume biographical dictionary about female hadith scholars
I've just created a new category of post on here; that's how excited I am about this piece of news...
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...
Extracts: I Refuse to Condemn, ed. by Asim Qureshi
I Refuse to Condemn is not the type of book I find easy to review; it's a complex interweaving of...
Review: I Refuse to Condemn ed. by Asim Qureshi
I've been thinking about this book for a while after finishing it and I've come to the conclusion...
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