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Author
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Formats
Description
A joyous short story collection by and about Muslims, edited by New York Times bestselling author Aisha Saeed and Morris finalist S. K. Ali
Once Upon an Eid is a collection of short stories that showcases the most brilliant Muslim voices writing today, all about the most joyful holiday of the year: Eid! Eid: The short, single-syllable word conjures up a variety of feelings and memories for Muslims. Maybe it's...
Once Upon an Eid is a collection of short stories that showcases the most brilliant Muslim voices writing today, all about the most joyful holiday of the year: Eid! Eid: The short, single-syllable word conjures up a variety of feelings and memories for Muslims. Maybe it's...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Adam and Zayneb embark on the Umrah, a pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina, in Saudi Arabia, but as one wedge after another drives them apart while they make their way through rites in the holy city, Adam and Zayneb start to wonder if their meeting was just anoddity after all.
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Appears on these lists
DEN - Kids + Teens: Arab American Heritage Month
NPM - NPMS 8th grade Fiction
NPM - YA Around the World
NPM - NPMS 8th grade Fiction
NPM - YA Around the World
Description
Eighteen-year-old Muslims Adam and Zayneb meet in Doha, Qatar, during spring break and fall in love as both struggle to find a way to live their own truths.
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Appears on these lists
DEN - Kids + Teens: Arab American Heritage Month
MCL - Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature
NPM - YA Tough Topics
MCL - Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature
NPM - YA Tough Topics
Description
Fifteen-year-old Janna Yusuf, a Flannery O'Connor-obsessed book nerd and the daughter of the only divorced mother at their mosque, tries to make sense of the events that follow when her best friend's cousin--a holy star in the Muslim community--attempts to assault her at the end of sophomore year.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Janna Yusuf and her friends are planning for her brother's nikah. But what started as a simple marriage ceremony is turning into the biggest event of the summer-and a chance for Janna to finally reveal her crush...or so she thinks"--Provided by publisher.
7) Grounded
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Told in alternating points of view, at Hurston Airport, four unlikely kids' lives are changed forever when their flight is grounded by weather following a Muslim convention.
Pub. Date
©2020.
Language
English
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Description
"Once upon an Eid is a collection of short stories that showcases [fifteen of] the most brilliant Muslim voices writing today, all about the most joyful holiday of the year: Eid! Eid: The short, single-syllable word conjures up a variety of feelings and memories for Muslims. Maybe it's waking up to the sound of frying samosas and simmering pistachio kheer, maybe it's the pleasure of putting on a new outfit for Eid prayers, or maybe it's the gift giving...
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