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Na’ima B. Robert

Book Review: She Wore Red Trainers


Posted by samya on 10 Nov 2014 / 1 Comment
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I was expecting a review copy of the book She Wore Red Trainers in my mailbox any time. It was early September, the time of year when the kids start school, get busy with homework, enroll in a soccer team, and so on, so it is the time of year when I have no time […]

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Sisters Magazine Review


Posted by azra on 25 Mar 2013 / 0 Comments
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When I volunteered to write a review of the monthly magazine Sisters for MMW last month, I had no idea how challenging it would be for me. Weeks passed with the PDF copies that Sisters had kindly sent waiting in my inbox, until my deadline finally prompted me to give them more than a skim-read.  Sisters was founded by […]

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From Somalia with Love (and Heavy-Handedness)


Posted by safiyaoutlines on 09 Aug 2011 / 0 Comments
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I was really looking forward to reading this book, as I still love young adult fiction and was intrigued to see what a Muslim take on the genre would read like. From Somalia with Love focuses on 14-year-old Safia who lives with her Mum and two older brothers in the heart of the Somali community […]

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Boy vs. Girl: “Pure” Islam or Purely Sanctimonious?


Posted by sarayasin on 31 Jan 2011 / 0 Comments
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Na’ima B. Robert’s second book, “Boy vs. Girl” is set in a South Asian community in Britain. The two main characters, Farhana and Faraz, are sixteen-year-old twins trying to negotiate their identities as the children of Pakistani immigrants and as Muslims.  Robert attempts to tell the story of struggling with trying to find a sense […]

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