Book Club

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Book Club: Hafsa Lodi's debut novel, 'Turbulence,' looks at whether balancing feminism with faith, marriage and family is really possible
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Book Club: Hamoud Saud’s 'The Raven of Ruwi' brings Muscat to life through poetic short stories, exploring Omani culture, memory, and identity with depth
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Book Club: Palestinian rapper Stryder turns Gaza's devastation into 'Jiddo's Treasure Chambers,' a children's book preserving memory, history and hope
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Book Club: A critical dismantling of 'France, You Love It But You Leave It,' exposing its weak data, class blindness, and orientalist framing of French Muslims
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Book Club: 'Muslim Europe' uncovers years of Muslim presence across the continent, challenging the widely held notion that Islam is foreign to European history
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Book Club: 'Reconstruction as Violence in Assad's Syria' explains how post-war rebuilding was used to erase communities and extend Assad's rule
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Book Club: We speak to Daniel Nour about his memoir 'How to Dodge Flying Sandals,' and how writing honestly about family and faith reshaped his sense of self
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Book Club: In his newly translated novel 'The Sailor's Secret', Younis Alakhzami merges colonialism, spiritual belief, and human greed into a sea-bound mystery
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Book Club: A curated list of 25 remarkable books published in 2025 spotlighting resistance, memory, identity, and the human stories defining our turbulent times
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Book Club: In 'Defiance', Loubna Mrie recounts growing up inside Assad's Syria and the painful unlearning that turned privilege and silence into witness