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DK super readersSummary: 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'SHirsi Ali, Ayaan
Summary: Picking up where Infidel, her last memoir, left off, Ayaan Hirsi Ali chronicles her struggle with culture shock as she adapts to life in America.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster / Audioworks 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 305.89 HIRSI ALI, AYAAN HirMohammed, 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
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MOHAMMAD, RAHAF MOHFahmy, 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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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 FAHHirsi Ali, Ayaan
Summary: Picking up where Infidel, her last memoir, left off, Ayaan Hirsi Ali chronicles her struggle with culture shock as she adapts to life in America.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HIRSI ALI, AYA HIRCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio AliGehrke-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 GEHSarsour, Linda
Summary: "An inspiring and empowering young readers edition of We Are Not Here to be Bystanders, the memoir by Women's March coorganizer and activist Linda Sarsour.You can count on me, your Palestinian Muslim sister, to keep her voice loud, keep her feet on the streets, and keep my head held high because I am not afraid. On January 17, 2017, Linda Sarsour stood in the National Mall to deliver a speech...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Salaam Reads, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division, 2022
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Summary: This sharply insightful memoir depicts a young Muslim girl's struggle to balance the traditions of a loving yet conservative father, who wants to keep her safe, against the more liberal Westernized Sri Lankan world outside. This memoir provides a glimpse into the microcosmic Galle Fort Muslim community of the 1960s post independent Sri Lanka. -- from cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perera-Hussein Publishing House 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 AZAD, YASMIN AZAMir, Saira
Summary: Introduces nineteen Muslim women from all around the world who have found their callings in a vast range of fields, from social justice to competitive sports to the entertainment industry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Salaam Reads 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 MIRWilson, G. Willow
Summary: "Kamala Khan is an ordinary girl from Jersey City -- until she's suddenly empowered with extraordinary gifts. But who truly is the new Ms. Marvel? Teenager? Muslim? Inhuman? Find out as she takes the Marvel Universe by storm! When Kamala discovers the dangers of her newfound powers, she unlocks a secret behind them, as well. Is Kamala ready to wield these immense new gifts? Or will the weight...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel Worldwide, Inc. 2014
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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 741.5 MSKhan, 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 Graphic Novels, Call number: 921 KHACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KHAN, SABBA KHAAboulela, Leila
Summary: "When Salma, Moni, and Iman-friends and active members of their local Muslim Women's group-decide to take a road trip together to the Scottish Highlands, they leave behind lives often dominated by obligation, frustrated desire, and dull predictability. Each wants something more out of life, but fears the cost of taking it. Salma is successful and happily married, but tempted to risk it all when...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Cat 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ABOAli-Khan, Sofia
Summary: "A leading advocate for social justice excavates the history of forced migration in the twelve American towns she's called home, revealing how White supremacy has fundamentally shaped the nation"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ALICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ALI-KHAN, SOFIA ALIAfram, Pamela
Summary: "Meet Kamala Khan, aka Ms. Marvel, an amazing superhero who can stretch and bend in any shape she likes! Join Kamala and her allies as she battles the enemies who threaten Jersey City, New Jersey"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2023
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE AFRKamaly, Hossein
Summary: Beginning in seventh-century Mecca and Medina, A History of Islam in 21 Women takes us around the globe, through eleventh-century Yemen and Khorasan, and into sixteenth-century Spain, Istanbul and India.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oneworld Publications 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 297.082 KAMShammas, Nadia
Summary: Kamala Khan (a.k.a Ms. Marvel) is stretched too thin-literally. She's having a hard time balancing schoolwork with being a good friend, being there for her family, becoming the best fanfic writer this side of the Hudson River... and, you know, becoming a Super Hero. She's tired and just barely keeping control, BUT she's handling it. Totally.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 SHACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 SHAWilson, G. Willow
Summary: Documents the author's conversion from all-American atheist to Islam, a journey marked by her decision to relocate to Cairo, romance with a passionate young Egyptian, and her efforts to balance the virtues of both cultures.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WILSON, G. WILLOW WILWilson, G. Willow
Summary: "She's your new favorite. She's everyone's new favorite. And now she's joining the big leagues. Look out world, Kamala Khan is an Avenger! But is she really cut out to be one of Earth's Mightiest Heroes? Saving the world is important, but Jersey City still needs its protector--and a development company that co-opted Ms. Marvel's face for its project has more in mind for gentrification than just...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel Worldwide, Inc., a subsidiary of Marvel Entertainment, LLC 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 741.5 MSBrooks, Geraldine.
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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Summary: Muslims who explore sources of morality other than Islam are threatened with death, and Muslim women who escape the virgins' cage are branded whores. So asserts Hirsi Ali's meditation on Islam and the role of women, the rights of the individual, the roots of fanaticism, and Western policies toward Islamic countries and immigrant communities. This controversial book is a call to arms for the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Social Cult Hirsi AliJalaluddin, Uzma
Summary: "As strangers and seatmates Maryam Aziz and Anna Gibson fly to Toronto over the holidays--Maryam to her sister's impromptu wedding, and Anna to meet her boyfriend's wealthy family for the first time--neither expect that severe turbulence will scare them into confessing their deepest hopes and fears to one another. At least they'll never see each other again. And the love of Maryam's life, Saif,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JALCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC JALAslam, Nadeem.
Summary: The disappearance of Jugnu and Chanda turns tragic when Chanda's brothers are arrested for their murders and the families struggle to reconcile their Islamic faith and the crime's impact on their families.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ASLBuckley, Christopher
Summary: Florence Farfarletti has a plan for female emancipation in the Middle East, and enlists the help of a diverse group to help her carry out her plan of reaching her audience with TV shows.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUCSummary: A German-born woman flees from her oppressive marriage in Istanbul, taking her son with her. She hopes to find a better life with her family in Berlin, but her unexpected arrival creates intense conflicts. Her family is trapped in their conventions. They are torn between their love for her and the traditional values of their community.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Olive Films 2011