This memoir is titled, “Two Callings.” Written by Dr. Aneesah Nadir, it chronicles not just her life, but the life of her ancestors, the political and social changes that occurred since the 1950’s, and the evolution and establishment of the Muslim Mental Health field in the US. She delves into her two callings, a calling to Islam, and a calling to Social Work. The book begins with a background and family tree of her origins. On one side, a seamstress and tailor from Barbados

This #bookaboutpalestine is probably one of my absolute favorites. It is fascinating, well written, engaging, and detailed. It begins with a Bedouin tribe in 1948 fleeing the war in Palestine, and the story of a gypsy girl, as she is faced with a horrible arranged marriage. her mother courageously secretly arranges for her to run away on the back of a visitor/ sheikh, who carries her to safety. She leaves behind her life, with nothing but a bracelet made of Liras. Each chap

So this is a book by #palestinianwriter Randa Jarrar. Daughter of an Egyptian mother and Palestinian father, the book is a memoir of her life in Kuwait as a child, to Egypt, and then to the US. If I would describe her character as anything it would be "defiant". She is strong, obnoxious, smart, smart mouthed, in spite of a physically abusive father, instability after the Gulf war and being forced to leave Kuwait, and as an immigrant to the US in her teens. She explores her t

Author Lilas Taha - Author is well known for her book, Bitter Almonds, but she also has other books that are wonderful. This book, Lost in Thyme, is a fictional story about 2 second generation Palestinian Americans whose lives cross unexpectedly in the aftermath of "Sami's" father's passing. "Petra" is given shares of his father's company. As they both search for the reasons why, they discover how interwined their fathers were in the struggle of Palestinian identity and ind