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“al kalima”

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  • Dust and Ashes

    by Al Kalima ...
    They did everything right. They never moved alone but as a group, in broad daylight, on well-traveled routes, not deviating from where they were supposed to be, and yet, within sight of school, and not far away from home, nineteen girls got kidnapped! They had not invited it in any way, they did not bargain for the helpless, hopeless situation in which they found themselves. The question was how ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Cockroaches for Sale

    -A Parable-

    by Al Kalima ...
    Through diligent research and modern technological innovations, man is able to breach the six hundred light years to Keplar 22b, a planet very similar to earth, ready-made for habitation and yet uninhabited. Keplar 22b seems to be the ideal solution to the teeming population problems of Mother Earth but there is a problem: the astronauts return with a plague and people die in hundreds of thousands ... Read more

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  • Afghanistan with Love

    by Al Kalima ...
    People are often caught at crossroads in matters of what is right and what is wrong. When is it right to strictly follow manmade rules and when is it right to balk at red tapes? Decisions are not always clear-cut black and white. The heart should sometimes be allowed to rule the head. After all, is it not love that makes the world keep going round? And yet rules are made for some very good reasons ... Read more

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  • Mornings in Jenin

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  • I Dared to Call Him Father

    The Miraculous Story of a Muslim Woman's Encounter with God

    by Bilquis Sheikh, Richard Schneider ...
    How do I give myself to God completely? What happens when I do?I Dared to Call Him Father is a book for everyone who has ever asked these questions.It is the fascinating true story of Bilquis Sheikh, a prominent Muslim woman in South Asia who faced these questions at the crossroads of her life--and found the astonishing answers.Her entire life turned upside down as a series of strange dreams ... Read more

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  • The Wandering Falcon

    by Jamil Ahmad ...
    A haunting literary debut set in the forbidding remote tribal areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan.Traditions that have lasted for centuries, both brutal and beautiful, create a rigid structure for life in the wild, astonishing place where Iran, Pakistan, and Afghanistan meet-the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA). It is a formidable world, and the people who live there are constantly ... Read more

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  • The Butterfly Mosque

    A Young American Woman's Journey to Love and Islam

    by G. Willow Wilson ...
    "In this satisfying, lyrical memoir," an American woman discovers her true faith—and true love—by converting to Islam and moving to Egypt ( Publishers Weekly).Raised in Boulder, Colorado, G. Willow Wilson moved to Egypt and converted to Islam shortly after college. Having written extensively on modern religion and the Middle East in publications such as The Atlantic Monthly and The New York Times ... Read more

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  • Miral

    A Novel

    by Rula Jebreal ...
    Translated by John Cullen ...
    Soon to be a major motion picture from the award-winning director Julian Schnabel, starring Freida Pinto.WRITTEN BY the much-admired Italo-Palestinian journalist Rula Jebreal, Miral is a novel that focuses on remarkable women whose lives unfold in the turbulent political climate along the borders of Israel and Palestine. The story begins with Hind, a woman who sacrifices everything to establish a ... Read more

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  • The Storyteller's Daughter

    One Woman's Return to Her Lost Homeland

    by Saira Shah ...
    Imagine that a jewel-like garden overlooking Kabul is your ancestral home. Imagine a kitchen made fragrant with saffron strands and cardamom pods simmering in an authentic pilau. Now remember that you were born in London, your family in exile, and that you have never seen Afghanistan in peacetime.These are but the starting points of Saira Shah’s memoir, by turns inevitably exotic and unavoidably ... Read more

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  • A Palace in the Old Village

    by Tahar Ben Jelloun ...
    From 'Morocco's greatest living author' (The Guardian) comes a heartbreaking novel about parents and children, the powerful pull of home and the yearning for tradition and family. Mohammed has spent the past 40 years working in France. As he approaches retirement, he takes stock of his life - his devotion to Islam and to his assimilated children - and decides to return to Morocco, where he spends ... Read more

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  • The Corpse Exhibition

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    by Hassan Blasim ...
    Translated by Jonathan Wright ...
    **A blistering debut that does for the Iraqi perspective on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan what Phil Klay’s Redeployment does for the American perspective“[A] wonderful collection.” —George Saunders, The New York Times Book Review**The first major literary work about the Iraq War from an Iraqi perspective—by an explosive new voice hailed as “perhaps the best writer of Arabic fiction alive” (The ... Read more

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