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4) Palace walk
Author
Series
Cairo trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1990, c1989
Language
English
Description
Follows a Muslim family in Cairo during Egypt's occupation by British forces in the early 1900s.
5) Halfaouine
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Arabic
Description
A charming tale of a young boy's sexual awakening in Muslim Tunisia. Boughedir's style is sensual and full of joy, celebrating the pleasures of everyday life.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Ameer Abu Ria is about to enlist in the army. As opposed to the majority of eighteen-year-old boys in Israel, for whom army service is mandatory, Ameer is exempt from military service under the assumption that his enlistment may endanger Israel's security. That is because Ameer, an Israeli citizen, is a Muslim Arab. And yet, Ameer has decided to volunteer. He believes that his induction is the way to equality, he believes this is the way to belong...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Sixty five years old Abdelkader Silimani, an Algerian Muslim living in France, after inadvertently witnessing a murder, closely escapes from the murderers by hiding out into a mosque. The black leather dressed masked murderers, with their firearms in hand, do not hesitate to enter the mosque full of praying men looking for the eyewitness. They leave empty handed but determined not to give up their search.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Taqwacore: the birth of Punk Islam, chronicles the nascent Muslim punk rock movement in America. It was inspired by the work of Michael Knight, who converted to Islam in rebellion against his white-supremacist father. He went on to pen the novel The Taqwacores (a term combining the Muslim concept of God consciousness with hardcore punk), a manifesto for disillusioned Islamic teens. The film follows Knight and a variety of young subversives on tour...
10) Internment
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A terrifying, futuristic United Sates where Muslim-Americans are forced into internment camps, and seventeen-year-old Layla Amin must lead a revolution against complicit silence"--
11) Abdul's story
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Abdul loves telling stories but thinks his messy handwriting and spelling mistakes will keep him from becoming an author, until Mr. Muhammad visits and encourages him to persist
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A Palestinian American woman wrestles with faith, loss, and identity before coming face-to-face with a school shooter in this searing debut. A uniquely American story told in powerful, evocative prose, The Beauty of Your Face navigates a country growing ever more divided. Afaf Rahman, the daughter of Palestinian immigrants, is the principal of Nurrideen School for Girls, a Muslim school in the Chicago suburbs. One morning, a shooter -- radicalized...
14) X: a novel
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
15) Yasmin in charge: Yasmin the Teacher / Yasmin the Chef / Yasmin the Zookeeper / Yasmin the Superhero
Author
Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Yasmin, an outgoing Pakistani-American girl, faces challenges at home, at school, and out and about with creativity and quick thinking.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Presents William Shakespeare's tragedy in which a husband turns against his wife after his jealous confidante plants doubts about her faithfulness, and includes explanatory notes, the story on which "Othello" is based, and five critical commentaries.
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"An epic biography of Malcolm X finally emerges, drawing on hundreds of hours of the author's interviews, rewriting much of the known narrative. Les Payne, the renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist, embarked in 1990 on a nearly thirty-year-long quest to interview anyone he could find who had actually known Malcolm X-all living siblings of the Malcolm Little family, classmates, street friends, cellmates, Nation of Islam figures,...
20) Infidel
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Ayaan Hirsi Ali recounts her life story, discussing her traditional Muslim childhood in Somalia, Saudi Arabia, and Kenya, her intellectual awakening and activism in the Netherlands, and her current life under armed guard in the West.
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