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These impossible things / by El-Wardany, Salma,author.;
"It's always been Malak, Kees, and Jenna against the world. Since childhood, under the watchful eyes of their parents, aunties and uncles, they've learned to live their own lives alongside the expectations of being good Muslim women ... With growing older and the stakes of love and life growing higher, the delicate balancing act between rebellion and religion is becoming increasingly difficult to navigate. As their lives begin to take different paths, Malak, Kees, and Jenna--now on the precipice of true adulthood--must find a way back to each other as they reconcile faith, family, and tradition with their own needs and desires"--
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Families; Female friendship; Individuality; Muslim women;

The reluctant fundamentalist [videorecording] / by Ahmed, Riz,1982-; Hamid, Mohsin,1971-Reluctant fundamentalist.Videorecording.; Hudson, Kate,1979-; Nair, Mira.; Pilcher, Lydia Dean.; Schreiber, Liev.; Sutherland, Kiefer,1966-; Wheeler, William,1967-; Cine Mosaic (Firm); Doha Film Institute.; IFC Films.; Mirabai Films (Firm); Mongrel Media.; Métropole Films Distribution.;
Riz Ahmed, Kate Hudson, Liev Schreiber, Kiefer Sutherland.When an American academic in Pakistan is kidnapped by anti-American radicals, the CIA thinks popular young Pakistani professor Changez is involved. But as Changez tells his story about his life in the US to an American foreign correspondent, the truth becomes harder to pin down.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD, region 1, NTSC, widescreen (2.40:1) presentation , Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Hamid, Mohsin, 1971-; Feature films.; Kidnapping; Muslims; Pakistani Americans; Political films.; Thrillers (Motion pictures);
© c2013., Distributed by Mongrel Media,

Love from A to Z / by Ali, S. K.;
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.LSC
Subjects: Muslims; Arabs; Prejudices; High schools; Multiple sclerosis;

One day, everyone will have always been against this / by El Akkad, Omar,1982-author.;
"From award-winning novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad comes a powerful reckoning with what it means to live in the heart of an empire that doesn't consider you fully human. On October 25th, 2023, after just three weeks of the bombardment of Gaza, Omar El Akkad put out a tweet: "One day, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it's too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this." This tweet was viewed more than ten million times. One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This chronicles the deep fracture that has occurred for Black, brown, Indigenous Americans, as well as the upcoming generation, many of whom had clung to a thread of faith in Western ideals, in the idea that their countries, or the countries of their adoption, actually attempted to live up to the values they espouse"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; El Akkad, Omar, 1982-; Arab American authors; Arabs; Israel-Hamas War, 2023-; Journalists; Muslims;

Twenty / by Grippando, James,1958-author.;
"A nightmarish shooting at their daughter's school finds Jack Swyteck and his law-enforcement officer wife, Andie, investigating a chief suspect's alleged ties to Al Qaeda amid growing anti-Muslim fervor"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Legal fiction (Literature); Qaida (Organization); Family secrets; Muslims; School shootings; Swyteck, Jack (Fictitious character);

More to the story / by Khan, Hena.;
As features editor of her school newspaper, thirteen-year-old Jameela Mirza wants to impress her father by writing a spectacular story about the new student, but a misunderstanding and family illness complicate matters.Ages 8-12.LSC
Subjects: Pakistani Americans; Muslims; Families; Middle schools; Student newspapers and periodicals;

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;

Dreamer : my life on the edge / by Kadri, Nazem,author.; Robson, Dan,author.;
An outspoken, inspirational memoir from a charismatic athlete in the spotlight, 'Dreamer' is the moving story of the Nazem Kadri, the first Muslim hockey player to win the Stanley Cup, and the impossible dreams he made a reality. Originally from London, ON, Kadri divides his time between Toronto, ON, and Calgary, AB, where he plays for the Calgary Flames.
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Kadri, Nazem.; Hockey players; Muslim athletes;

Ramadan / by Eliot, Hannah.; Kheiriyeh, Rashin.;
"It's the ninth month of the year, and the first crescent moon rises in the sky. That means it's time to celebrate Ramadan!"--Page [4] of cover.LSC
Subjects: Ramadan; Muslims; Islam; Fasts and feasts; Muslim families;

Bhai for now / by Siddiqui, Maleeha.;
This is the story of two long-lost brothers who, while they might not like each other, just might need each other.LSC
Subjects: Muslims; Friendship; Middle schools; Brothers; Moving, Household; First day of school; Belonging (Social psychology); Pakistani Americans;

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