Summary: 19 Arab women journalists speak out about what it's like to report on their changing homelands in this first-of-its-kind essay collection, with a foreword by CNN Chief International Correspondent Christiane Amanpour. International media coverage of the Arab world and its many complex, interconnected conflicts is dominated by the work of Western correspondents, many of whom are white and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2019
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 070.4082 OURGorani, Hala
Summary: "Emmy Award-winning international journalist Hala Gorani weaves stories from her time as a globe-trotting correspondent and anchor with her own lifelong search for identity as the daughter of Syrian immigrants. What is it like to have no clear identity in a world full of labels? How can people find a sense of belonging when they have never felt part of a "tribe?" And how does a blonde-haired,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2024
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Summary: "Shahd Alshammari is just eighteen when she is diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, and told by her neurologist that she would not make it past age thirty. Despite what she is told, by thirty, she has become a professor of literature, and has managed to navigate education systems in both Kuwait and the United Kingdom and inspire generations of students. Head above Water is the intimate,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feminist Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ALSHAMMARI, SHAHD ALSMohammed, 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 MOHLari, Zahra
Summary: "After watching an ice-skating movie, young Zahra sets her mind to learn how to ice skate even though her family and friends doubt her abilities. After all, she's too old to learn, the rink is too cold, and figure skaters don't look like her... not yet at least! Illustrated with Sara Alfageeh's energetic lines and colors that pop right off the page, we follow Zahra's story as she glides across...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LARCouric, Katie
Summary: In this memoir, Katie Couric reveals what was going on behind the scenes of her sometimes tumultuous personal and professional life--a story she's never shared, until now.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Book Group 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 COURIC, KATIE COUGeha, Joseph
Summary: "Immigrant children first speak the language of their mothers, and in Toledo, Ohio's Little Syria neighborhood where I grew up, the first place you'd go to find your mother would be the kitchen. There, my mom took special pride in the traditional Syro-Lebanese food she cooked. Kitchen Arabic is a compilation both of her recipes and of the family stories that came with them. It is as much a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Georgia Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5092 GEHWilliams, Emma.
Summary: In August, 2000, Emma Williams arrived with her three small children in Jerusalem to join her husband and to work as a doctor. A month later, the Palestinian intifada erupted. For the next three years, she was to witness an astonishing series of events in which hundreds of thousands of lives, including her own, were turned upside down. Williams lived on the very border of East and West...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Olive Branch Press 2010
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WILLIAMS, EMMA WILGordimer, Nadine.
Summary: The Nobel Laureate's psychologically penetrating story of the love affair between a rich South African and the illegal alien she "picks up" on a whim Who picked up whom? Is the pickup the illegal immigrant desperate to evade deportation to his impoverished desert country? Or is the pickup the powerful businessman's daughter trying to escape a priveleged background she despises? When Julie...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GORCohen, Richard M. (Richard Martin)
Summary: "Nora Ephron, one of the most famous writers, film makers, and personalities of her time is captured by her long-time and dear friend in a hilarious, blunt, raucous, and poignant recollection of their decades-long friendship. Nora Ephron (1941-2012) was a phenomenal personality, journalist, essayist, novelist, playwright, Oscar-nominated screenwriter, and movie director (Sleepless in Seattle;...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 EPHRON, NORA COHSatrapi, Marjane
Summary: "Here, in one volume: Marjane Satrapi's best-selling, internationally acclaimed graphic memoir. Persepolis is the story of Satrapi's unforgettable childhood and coming of age within a large and loving family in Tehran during the Islamic Revolution; of the contradictions between private life and public life in a country plagued by political upheaval; of her high school years in Vienna facing the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SATRAPI, MARJANE SATSummary: "This ground-breaking anthology features the compelling and courageous memoirs of eighteen queer Arab writers - some internationally bestselling, others using pseudonyms. Here, we find heart-warming connections and moments of celebration alongside essays exploring the challenges of being LGBTQ+ and Arab. From a military base in the Gulf to loving whispers caught between the bedsheets; and from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Saqi Books 2022
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Summary: "Yallah! From January to December, join some busy kids as they partake in traditions old and new. There's so much to do, whether it's learning to write Arabic or looking at hijab fashion sites while planning costumes for a local comic convention. With details as vivid as the scent of jasmine and honeysuckle perfume (made to remind Mom of Morocco), children bond with friends, honor tradition,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: J 390.0953 CAM1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 390.0953 CAM
Farrell, Mary Cronk
Summary: Shares the story of the African American women who enlisted in the newly formed Women's Army Auxiliary Corps in World War II, centering the story around Charity Adams, the woman who commanded the only black WAAC battalion sent overseas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.54 FARGregorio, Katharine
Summary: "Illuminating a thrilling untold chapter of the Cold War, The Double Life of Katharine Clark shares the forgotten story of a remarkable woman who pioneered a career in a male-dominated profession. In 1955, Katharine Clark became the first female American wire reporter behind the Iron Curtain, forging a career as a journalist, befriending a leading Communist, and risking her life to smuggle away...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CLARK, KATHARINE GREFarrell, Mary Cronk
Summary: ". . . tells the story of French-born Catherine Leroy, one of the Vietnam War's few woman photographers, who documented some of the fiercest fighting in the twenty-year conflict. Despite being told that women didn't belong in a "man's world," she was cool under fire, gravitated toward the thickest battles, went along on the soldiers' slogs through the heat and mud of the jungle, crawled through...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books, an imprint of Abrams 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 LERBuckley, 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 BUCMorgan, Ann (Ann Beatrice)
Summary: "A beguiling exploration of the joys of reading across boundaries, inspired by the author's year-long journey through a book from every country. Following an impulse to read more internationally, journalist Ann Morgan undertook first to define "the world" and then to find a story from each of 196 nations. Tireless in her quest and assisted by generous, far-flung strangers, Morgan discovered not...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 810 MORClinton, Chelsea
Summary: Profiles the lives of thirteen American women who have left their mark on U.S. history, including Harriet Tubman, Helen Keller, Margaret Chase Smith, and Oprah Winfrey.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J920 CLIAlinejad, Masih
Summary: A photo on Masih's Facebook page: a woman standing proudly, face bare, hair blowing in the wind. Her crime: removing her veil, or hijab, which is compulsory for women in Iran. This is the self-portrait that sparked 'My Stealthy Freedom,' a social media campaign that went viral. But Masih is so much more than the arresting face that sparked a campaign inspiring women to find their voices. She's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ALINEJAD, MASIH ALISummary: An in-depth look at Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi's life, work, and murder amidst the complexity of U.S.-Saudi Arabia relations. Exclusive interviews explore Khashoggi's con nections with Saudi rulers, Middle Eastern jihadists, and fellow global journalists, as well as his enduring global legacy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC KINSummary: Ten stories from the Tales of a Thousand and One Nights, including the well-known ones of Aladdin and the lamp, Ali Baba and the forty thieves, and Sinbad the sailor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner's 1993
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.22 ARASummary: "Eight women from eight very different backgrounds, yet the struggles they each faced rang with eerie similarity. From Pakistan, India, Romania, the former Soviet Union, China, Vietnam, Nepal, and Indonesia, these women shared similar experiences of hardship and persecution--all for their faith in Christ--yet they have emerged from adversity as leaders and heroines."--Publisher's website.
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Publisher / Publication Date: VOM Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 272 BURContents: 1. Bsslama hbibti / Fadoul (Morocco) = Bilslāmah ḥabībatī / Faḍūl (al-Maghrib) -- 2. Wang dang / Bob Destiny (Algeria) = Wāngh dāngh / Būb Dīstīnī (al-Jazāʼir) -- 3. Unknown / Attarazat Addahabia (Morocco) = Majhūl / al-Ṭarāzāt al-Dhahabīyah (al-Maghrib) -- 4. Mirza / Jalil Bennis et les Golden Hands (Morocco) = Mīrzā / Jalīl Binīs wa-al-Jūldin Hāndz (al-Maghrib) -- 5. Irkos farfesh /...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Habibi Funk 2017