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Reader's circle (Random House (Firm))Summary: In 2016, Mariam Khan read that David Cameron had linked the radicalization of Muslim men to the `traditional submissiveness' of Muslim women. Mariam felt pretty sure she didn't know a single Muslim woman who would describe herself that way. Why was she hearing about Muslim women from people who were neither Muslim, nor female? Years later the state of the national discourse has deteriorated...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.4 IT'SKhan, Sabba
Summary: "As a second-generation Pakistani immigrant living in East London, Sabba Khan paints a vivid snapshot of contemporary British Asian life and investigates the complex shifts experienced by different generations within immigrant communities, creating an uplifting and universal story that crosses borders and decades. Race, gender, and class are explored in a compelling personal narrative creating...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KHAN, SABBA KHAFahmy, Huda
Summary: "Chaperones, suitors, and arranged marriages aren't only reserved for the heroines of a Jane Austen novel. They're just another walk in the park for this leading lady, who is on a mission to find her leading lad. From the brilliant comics Yes, I'm Hot in This, Huda Fahmy tells the hilarious story of how she met and married her husband. Navigating mismatched suitors, gossiping aunties, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews McMeel Publishing 2020
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Summary: Examines the life of Muslim women, and the often contradictory political, religious, and cultural forces that shape their lives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.48 BroGehrke-White, Donna.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Citadel Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.48 GEHDekker, Ted
Summary: Suddenly struck by the power to see multiple potential futures, Seth Borders stumbles upon Miriam, a Saudi Arabian princess escaping from a forced marriage, but cultures collide as Seth and Miriam flee from forces determined to capture or kill Miriam.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson Publishers 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DEKRodriguez, Deborah.
Summary: Soon after the fall of the Taliban, in 2001, Deborah Rodriguez went to Afghanistan as part of a humanitarian aid group. Surrounded by people whose skills--as doctors, nurses, and therapists--seemed eminently more practical than her own, Rodriguez, a hairdresser and mother from Michigan, despaired of being of any real use. Yet she found she had a gift for befriending Afghans, and once her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.4869 RODRodriguez, Deborah.
Summary: "Soon after the fall of the Taliban, in 2001, Deborah Rodriguez went to Afghanistan as part of a humanitarian aid group. Surrounded by people whose skills--as doctors, nurses, and therapists--seemed eminently more practical than her own, Rodriguez, a hairdresser and mother from Michigan, despaired of being of any real use. Yet she found she had a gift for befriending Afghans, and once her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 305.486 RODRodriguez, Deborah.
Summary: Soon after the fall of the Taliban, in 2001, Deborah Rodriguez went to Afghanistan as part of a humanitarian aid group. Surrounded by people whose skills--as doctors, nurses, and therapists--seemed eminently more practical than her own, Rodriguez, a hairdresser and mother from Michigan, despaired of being of any real use. Yet she found she had a gift for befriending Afghans, and once her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 305.48 RODMohammed, Rahaf
Summary: In January 2019, then 18-year-old Saudi woman Rahaf Mohammed escaped from her family while holidaying in Kuwait. She was fleeing systematic abuse of her human rights as a woman growing up in Saudi Arabia and, specifically, her family's threats to kill her because she desired the freedoms Western women take for granted. She boarded a plane bound for Bangkok, en route to Australia where she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022