Tag: memoir
In a New Novel, a Secular Muslim American Rejects the Burden...
Into this maelstrom comes Ali Eteraz’s debut novel, “Native Believer.” Eteraz is the author of a memoir, “Children of Dust” (2009), that chronicled his...
Book review: ‘I Am Malala’ by Malala Yousafzai
October 11, 2013
Marie Arana is the author of the memoir “American Chica” and the biography “Bolivar: American Liberator.” She was also a scriptwriter for...
Misery memoirs: why is it different for Muslim women?
Samira Ahmed writes in this post why women writing about suffering in Islamic states are slated for supporting a patronising attitude towards those societies....
Convert Straddles Worlds of Islam and Hip-Hop
He was a “15-year-old white kid with Dad a diagnosed schizophrenic, rapist and racial separatist and Mom fresh off her second divorce,” Michael Muhammad...