We are quick to cry islamophobia but fail to see it in our own reaction to and about people who “islam” differently than us.
Tag Archives: book review
Read Leila Aboulela’s Minaret!
Minaret… explores Muslim women in their own element with an intimacy that can only come from within.
“She writes Sudan with such care!” (A Lyrics Alley review)
because success is much easier to understand than art…
Footsteps (Umm Zakkiyyah) – A Review
How a Muslim man might approach polygamy in a way that he doesn’t lose his current wife…
So Long A Letter (A Review)
So Long A Letter is a small book that encompasses so much of what it means to be an African Muslim woman.
The Baby Is Mine- Oyinkan Braithwaite: A Review
The book was a nice read especially if you want a particular brand of drama and flair that is uniquely Nigerian.
New RZ Review
#RekiyaAndZ is a significant book that carves a new space for the representation of sub-Saharan African Muslims in the contemporary literary world… Check out the latest review of #rekiyaAndZ on Hikaayat magazine Muti’ah Badruddeen’s “Rekiya and Z”: Carving Spaces for sub-Sahara African Muslim Fiction
My thoughts on re-reading Jane Eyre
I picked up the new faux leather covered collectible copy I had splurged on a few months earlier, expecting a light read; something that should help me ramp up my descriptive game a notch while at it. No biggie. Gentle Reader, I was all kinds of wrong.
Muti'ah Badruddeen 