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The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf

Mojha Kahf
The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf Book PDF

Author : Mojha Kahf
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2009-03-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780786735426

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Syrian immigrant Khadra Shamy is growing up in a devout, tightly knit Muslim family in 1970s Indiana, at the crossroads of bad polyester and Islamic dress codes. Along with her brother Eyad and her African-American friends, Hakim and Hanifa, she bikes the Indianapolis streets exploring the fault-lines between "Muslim" and "American." When her picture-perfect marriage goes sour, Khadra flees to Syria and learns how to pray again. On returning to America she works in an eastern state -- taking care to stay away from Indiana, where the murder of her friend Tayiba's sister by Klan violence years before still haunts her. But when her job sends her to cover a national Islamic conference in Indianapolis, she's back on familiar ground: Attending a concert by her brother's interfaith band The Clash of Civilizations, dodging questions from the "aunties" and "uncles," and running into the recently divorced Hakim everywhere. Beautifully written and featuring an exuberant cast of characters, The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf charts the spiritual and social landscape of Muslims in middle America, from five daily prayers to the Indy 500 car race. It is a riveting debut from an important new voice.

The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf

Mojha Kahf
The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf Book PDF

Author : Mojha Kahf
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2009-03-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780786735426

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The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf by Mojha Kahf Pdf

Syrian immigrant Khadra Shamy is growing up in a devout, tightly knit Muslim family in 1970s Indiana, at the crossroads of bad polyester and Islamic dress codes. Along with her brother Eyad and her African-American friends, Hakim and Hanifa, she bikes the Indianapolis streets exploring the fault-lines between “Muslim” and “American.” When her picture-perfect marriage goes sour, Khadra flees to Syria and learns how to pray again. On returning to America she works in an eastern state — taking care to stay away from Indiana, where the murder of her friend Tayiba's sister by Klan violence years before still haunts her. But when her job sends her to cover a national Islamic conference in Indianapolis, she's back on familiar ground: Attending a concert by her brother's interfaith band The Clash of Civilizations, dodging questions from the “aunties” and “uncles,” and running into the recently divorced Hakim everywhere. Beautifully written and featuring an exuberant cast of characters, The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf charts the spiritual and social landscape of Muslims in middle America, from five daily prayers to the Indy 500 car race. It is a riveting debut from an important new voice.

Hagar Poems

Mohja Kahf
Hagar Poems Book PDF

Author : Mohja Kahf
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781682260005

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“Mohja Kahf ’s Hagar Poems is brilliantly original in its conception, thrillingly artful in its execution. Its range is immense, its spiritual depth is profound, it negotiates its shifts between archaic and the contemporary with utmost skill. There’s lyricism, there’s satire, there’s comedy, there’s theology of a high order in this book.” —Alicia Ostriker, author of For the Love of God: The Bible as an Open Book “Hagar/ Hajar the immigrant/exile/outcast/refugee mother of a people is given multiple voices and significance in Mohja Kahf’s new book of dramatic monologues, which also reinvents Pharaoh’s daughter, Zuleika, Aïsha, and Mary in poems that are at once lively and learned, agnostic and devout. The sequence on an American mosque, and the poet’s ambivalent love for what it represents, is unique in American poetry.” —Marilyn Hacker, author of A Stranger’s Mirror “‘Where have all the goddesses gone,’ writes Mohja Kahf, ‘I tracked down Isis / incognito on Cyprus. /She told me Ishtar / lived under the radar / in southern Iraq. . . .’ In Hagar Poems, Mohja Kahf’s hallmark qualities—irreverence, imagination, wit, poignancy—are all exuberantly in evidence. A wonderful read.” —Leila Ahmed, author of A Quiet Revolution: The Veil’s Resurgence, from the Middle East to America “This brilliant collection captures all the ‘patient threading of relationship’ between Hagar and Sarah as between women, and then between women and men, between human and God. . . . At every turn of the page [Kahf] refuses complacency and circumstance but opts instead for exposing the tenuousness of threads that tie and bind and then come loose before our eyes.” —From the foreword by Amina Wadud The central matter of this daring new collection is the story of Hagar, Abraham, and Sarah—the ancestral feuding family of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. These poems delve into the Hajar story in Islam. They explore other figures from the Near Eastern heritage, such as Mary and Moses, and touch on figures from early Islam, such as Fatima and Aisha. Throughout, there is artful reconfiguring. Readers will find sequels and prequels to the traditional narratives, along with modernized figures claimed for contemporary conflicts. Hagar Poems is a compelling shakeup of not only Hagar’s story but also of current roles of all kinds of women in all kinds of relationships.

E-mails from Scheherazad

Mohja Kahf
E mails from Scheherazad Book PDF

Author : Mohja Kahf
Publisher : University of Central Florida
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0813026210

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E-mails from Scheherazad by Mohja Kahf Pdf

Explores what it is like to be a woman, a person of color, an immigrant, and a headscarf-wearing Muslim in a non-Muslim country.

Anxiety of Erasure

Hanadi Al-Samman
Anxiety of Erasure Book PDF

Author : Hanadi Al-Samman
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780815653295

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Anxiety of Erasure by Hanadi Al-Samman Pdf

Far from offering another study that bemoans Arab women’s repression and veiling, Anxiety of Erasure looks at Arab women writers living in the diaspora who have translated their experiences into a productive and creative force. In this book, Al-Samman articulates the therapeutic effects of revisiting forgotten histories and of activating two cultural tropes: that of the maw’udah (buried female infant) and that of Shahrazad in the process of revolutionary change. She asks what it means to develop a national, gendered consciousness from diasporic locals while staying committed to the homeland. Al-Samman presents close readings of the fiction of six prominent authors whose works span over half a century and define the current status of Arab diaspora studies—Ghada al-Samman, Hanan al-Shaykh, Hamida al-Na‘na‘, Hoda Barakat, Samar Yazbek, and Salwa al-Neimi. Exploring the journeys in time and space undertaken by these women, Anxiety of Erasure shines a light on the ways in which writers remain participants in their homelands’ intellectual lives, asserting both the traumatic and the triumphant aspects of diaspora. The result is a nuanced Arab women’s poetic that celebrates rootlessness and rootedness, autonomy and belonging.

My Lover Feeds Me Grapefruit

Mohja Kahf
My Lover Feeds Me Grapefruit Book PDF

Author : Mohja Kahf
Publisher : Press 53
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1950413195

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My Lover Feeds Me Grapefruit by Mohja Kahf Pdf

In this radiant collection of love poems, Mohja Kahf makes a feast and a celebration, in language and of language. Everyone is invited: "Never drink while another is thirsty. You first. No, you. We could dance like this forever." From dizzying bursts of eros to wry acceptance of mortality, Kahf translates her robust Arabic literary lineage into the regal command: "Always multiply the gift." Pleasure shimmers off these pages with spiritual undertones, glancing subtly at Quran, at hadith. The opening poem, "When I Come to You," echoes a Hadith Qudsi in which God says, "When my worshipper comes to Me walking, I go to her running." With its joyful succession of images calling for reciprocity, this poem, and the collection, honor the mutual desire for union between Creator and creature as a foundation for expressions of human desire. From that generous place, we leap into lyric delight in the physicality of the erotic. It is the reader's task and reward to embrace "this beautiful clumsiness." -from the Preface by Rahat Kurd

Poppy's Best Paper

Susan Eaddy
Poppy s Best Paper Book PDF

Author : Susan Eaddy
Publisher : Lerner Publishing Group
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781430130505

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Poppy's Best Paper by Susan Eaddy Pdf

Poppy J. Thistleberry decides she wants to be a writer, but she is struggling to come up with material for her class writing assignments. She is also annoyed when her best friend's papers are chosen by the teacher to read aloud.

Muslim Textualities

Jean M. Kane
Muslim Textualities Book PDF

Author : Jean M. Kane
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000546262

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Muslim Textualities by Jean M. Kane Pdf

In the first decade of the twenty-first century, Muslim women writers located in Europe and American entered the cultural mainstream. Literary and visual productions negotiated static visual emblems of Islam, most prominently "the veil." They did so not by rejecting veiling practices, but by adapting Muslim resources, concepts and visual tradition to empowerment narratives in popular media. Mainstream reception of their works has often overlooked or misread these negotiations. Muslim Textualities argues for more flexible and capacious interpretation, with particular attention to visibility as a metaphor for political agency and to knowledge of cultural contexts. This provocative volume aims to articulate Muslim female agency through clear and accessible analysis of the theory and concepts driving the interpretation of these works. Scholars interested in the working representations of Muslim women, feminist subjectivities, and the complexities of gender roles, patriarchy, and feminism will find this volume of particular interest.

Hair Story

NoNieqa Ramos
Hair Story Book PDF

Author : NoNieqa Ramos
Publisher : Carolrhoda Books ®
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781728476193

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Hair Story by NoNieqa Ramos Pdf

Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience! With rhythmic, rhyming verse, this picture book follows two girls—one non-Black Puerto Rican, one Black—as they discover the stories their hair can tell. Preciosa has hair that won’t stay straight, won’t be confined. Rudine’s hair resists rollers, flat irons, and rules. Together, the girls play hair salon! They take inspiration from their moms, their neighbors, their ancestors, and cultural icons. They discover that their hair holds roots of the past and threads of the future. With rhythmic, rhyming verse and vibrant collage art, author NoNieqa Ramos and illustrator Keisha Morris follow two girls as they discover the stories hair can tell.

A Map of Home

Randa Jarrar
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Author : Randa Jarrar
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2008-09-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781590513279

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A Map of Home by Randa Jarrar Pdf

Nidali, the rebellious daughter of an Egyptian-Greek mother and a Palestinian father, narrates the story of her childhood in Kuwait, her teenage years in Egypt (to where she and her family fled the 1990 Iraqi invasion), and her family's last flight to Texas. Nidali mixes humor with a sharp, loving portrait of an eccentric middle-class family, and this perspective keeps her buoyant through the hardships she encounters: the humiliation of going through a checkpoint on a visit to her father's home in the West Bank; the fights with her father, who wants her to become a famous professor and stay away from boys; the end of her childhood as Iraq invades Kuwait on her thirteenth birthday; and the scare she gives her family when she runs away from home. Funny, charming, and heartbreaking, A Map of Home is the kind of book Tristram Shandy or Huck Finn would have narrated had they been born Egyptian-Palestinian and female in the 1970s.

A Quiet Revolution

Leila Ahmed
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Author : Leila Ahmed
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780300175059

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A Quiet Revolution by Leila Ahmed Pdf

A probing study of the veil's recent return—from one of the world's foremost authorities on Muslim women—that reaches surprising conclusions about contemporary Islam's place in the West todayIn Cairo in the 1940s, Leila Ahmed was raised by a generation of women who never dressed in the veils and headscarves their mothers and grandmothers had worn. To them, these coverings seemed irrelevant to both modern life and Islamic piety. Today, however, the majority of Muslim women throughout the Islamic world again wear the veil. Why, Ahmed asks, did this change take root so swiftly, and what does this shift mean for women, Islam, and the West?When she began her study, Ahmed assumed that the veil's return indicated a backward step for Muslim women worldwide. What she discovered, however, in the stories of British colonial officials, young Muslim feminists, Arab nationalists, pious Islamic daughters, American Muslim immigrants, violent jihadists, and peaceful Islamic activists, confounded her expectations. Ahmed observed that Islamism, with its commitments to activism in the service of the poor and in pursuit of social justice, is the strain of Islam most easily and naturally merging with western democracies' own tradition of activism in the cause of justice and social change. It is often Islamists, even more than secular Muslims, who are at the forefront of such contemporary activist struggles as civil rights and women's rights. Ahmed's surprising conclusions represent a near reversal of her thinking on this topic.Richly insightful, intricately drawn, and passionately argued, this absorbing story of the veil's resurgence, from Egypt through Saudi Arabia and into the West, suggests a dramatically new portrait of contemporary Islam.

Shalom India Housing Society

Esther David
Shalom India Housing Society Book PDF

Author : Esther David
Publisher : The Feminist Press at CUNY
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2009-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781558616455

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Shalom India Housing Society by Esther David Pdf

Set in India, these tales are of Hindus and Muslims and . . . Jews? Oy vay!

Minaret

Leila Aboulela
Minaret Book PDF

Author : Leila Aboulela
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781408869567

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Minaret by Leila Aboulela Pdf

In her Muslim hijab, with her down-turned gaze, Najwa is invisible to most eyes, especially to the rich London families whose houses she cleans. But twenty years earlier it was a different story. Najwa was at university in Khartoum and, as an upper-class westernised Sudanese, her dreams were to marry well and raise a family. However, those days of innocence came to an abrupt end and tough years followed. Now Najwa finds solace in her visits to the Mosque, the companionship of the Muslims she meets there and in the hijab she adopts. Her dreams may have shattered but her awakening to Islam has given her a different peace. Then Najwa meets a younger man and slowly they begin to fall in love ...

Western Representations of the Muslim Woman

Mohja Kahf
Western Representations of the Muslim Woman Book PDF

Author : Mohja Kahf
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780292779761

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Western Representations of the Muslim Woman by Mohja Kahf Pdf

Veiled, secluded, submissive, oppressed—the "odalisque" image has held sway over Western representations of Muslim women since the Enlightenment of the eighteenth century. Yet during medieval and Renaissance times, European writers portrayed Muslim women in exactly the opposite way, as forceful queens of wanton and intimidating sexuality. In this illuminating study, Mohja Kahf traces the process through which the "termagant" became an "odalisque" in Western representations of Muslim women. Drawing examples from medieval chanson de geste and romance, Renaissance drama, Enlightenment prose, and Romantic poetry, she links the changing images of Muslim women to changes in European relations with the Islamic world, as well as to changing gender dynamics within Western societies.

The On-Again, Off-Again Friend

Wiley Blevins
The On Again Off Again Friend Book PDF

Author : Wiley Blevins
Publisher : Red Chair Press
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781634400176

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The On-Again, Off-Again Friend by Wiley Blevins Pdf

Grace was excited about the first day of school and seeing her best friend Jade from last year. But when Grace finally saw Jade, she was sitting with a new girl who teased and ignored Grace. Because Jade didn't stand up for her friend, Grace was sad and felt hurt. Grace's Nana tells her to make new friends and to always stand up for your friends. And that's just what Grace does the next day.