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We have always been here : a queer Muslim memoir / by Habib, Samra,author.;
"A queer Muslim searches for the language to express her truest self, making peace with her sexuality, her family, and Islam. Growing up in Pakistan, Samra Habib lacks a blueprint for the life she wants. She has a mother who gave up everything to be a pious, dutiful wife and an overprotective father who seems to conspire against a life of any adventure. Plus, she has to hide the fact that she's Ahmadi to avoid persecution from religious extremists. As the threats against her family increase, they seek refuge in Canada, where new financial and cultural obstacles await them. When Samra discovers that her mother has arranged her marriage, she must again hide a part of herself -- the fun-loving, feminist teenager that has begun to bloom -- until she simply can't any longer. So begins a journey of self-discovery that takes her to Tokyo, where she comes to terms with her sexuality, and to a queer-friendly mosque in Toronto, where she returns to her faith in the same neighbourhood where she attended her first drag show. Along the way, she learns that the facets of her identity aren't as incompatible as she was led to believe, and that her people had always been there -- the world just wasn't ready for them yet"--
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Biographies.; Habib, Samra.; Muslim lesbians;
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My name is not Harry : a memoir / by Siddiqui, Haroon,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Veteran Toronto Star editor Haroon Siddiqui, brown and Muslim, has spent a life on the media front lines, covering conflicts both global and local. Siddiqui's journey took him from a divided India to a welcoming Canada--until the cataclysm of 9/11 hardened attitudes to Muslims around the world. His personal story weaves through growing Islamophobia in both India and North America. Siddiqui's experiences in the corridors of power in newsrooms and warzones are threaded with insights about historic changes in the last seventy years in India and Canada. His native and adopted lands serve as metaphors for what can go wrong and what can be made right."--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Siddiqui, Haroon.; Islamophobia; Islamophobia; Muslims; Muslims; Muslims; Newspaper editors;
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Internment / by Ahmed, Samira(Fiction writer);
"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"--Provided by publisher.LSC
Subjects: Science fiction.; Dystopias.; Muslim teenagers; Muslims; Revolutionaries; Prejudices; Concentration camps;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Halal sex : the intimate lives of Muslim women in North America / by Benembarek, Sheima,author.; Eltahawy, Mona,1967-writer of foreword.;
"This unprecedented and compassionate glimpse into the sex lives of seven Muslim women across North America brings a hushed conversation out into the open. Sheima Benembarek's parents never gave her the "the talk." When she left Morocco to go to university in Montreal, she was completely unprepared to navigate an open and active sex life outside of marriage, considered haram within the Muslim world. Now, many years later, she's all too aware of how common this is among immigrants and the children of immigrants living on a more sexually liberated continent. She set out to eliminate the taboo, interviewing Muslims from of a variety of locations, ethnicities, Islamic sects, and socioeconomic backgrounds about a host of topics, from masturbation and hymens to sex work and BDSM. Halal Sex is the culmination of these conversations, distilled into seven rich and compelling stories. Among the subjects are Hind, a niqabi in a polygynous marriage; Azar, a non-binary trans Sufi; Taslim, a virgin in her forties struggling to erect healthy boundaries with her family; and Eman, a lesbian stand-up comic in an interfaith marriage. With great care and thoughtfulness, Benembarek reveals a tapestry of diverse Islam and of individuals forging a path forward, each in their own way: overcoming shame, filling in educational gaps, balancing familial pressures, pushing back against sexism and patriarchy, and--ultimately--prioritizing their own happiness and pleasure."--
Subjects: Muslim women; Muslim women; Muslim women;
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Hope ablaze / by Rana, Sarah Mughal,author.;
Eighteen-year-old Nida faces unexpected fame after her critical poem about a politician goes viral and wins a contest she never entered, which leaves Nida unable to write poetry as she struggles with her family's expectations and questions her own desires.
Subjects: Young adult fiction.; Bildungsromans.; Poetry.; Novels.; Families; Identity (Psychology); Muslims; Family life; Families; Identity; Muslims;
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X : a novel / by Shabazz, Ilyasah.; Magoon, Kekla.;
Includes bibliographical references.Co-written by Malcolm X's daughter, this riveting and revealing novel follows Malcolm from his childhood to his imprisonment for theft at age twenty, when he found the faith that would lead him to forge a new path and command a voice that still resonates today.LSC
Subjects: X, Malcolm, 1925-1965; Black Muslims; African American Muslims;
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Yes no maybe so / by Albertalli, Becky.; Saeed, Aisha.;
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Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Jews; Muslims; Interpersonal relations; Elections;
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Bird summons / by Aboulela, Leila,1964-author.;
"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 she's contacted by her first love back in Egypt; Moni gave up a career in banking to care for her disabled son without the help of her indifferent husband; and Iman, in her twenties and already on her third marriage, longs for the freedom and autonomy she's never known. When the women are visited by the Hoopoe, a sacred bird from Muslim and Celtic literature, they are compelled to question their relationships to faith and femininity, love, loyalty, and sacrifice"--
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Magic realist fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Automobile travel; Friendship; Muslim women; Muslims; Self-realization;
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Praying to the west : how Muslims shaped the Americas / by Mouallem, Omar,1985-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Civilization, Western; Islam and culture; Islam and culture; Islam; Islam;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Game changers : stories of hijabi athletes from around the world / by Smith, Charlene(Author of Game changers); Tariq, Natalya.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."This illustrated nonfiction anthology features the stories of 13 inspiring hijabi athletes from around the world"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Biographies.; Muslim athletes; Women athletes; Muslim women; Hijab (Islamic clothing);
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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