MISQUOTING MUHAMMAD: The Challenge and Choices of Interpreting the Prophet’s Legacy Jonathan A.C. Brown Simon and Schuster, 2014ย – 384 pages Few things provoke controversy in the modern world like the religion brought by Prophet Muhammad. Modern media are replete with alarm over jihad, underage marriage and the threat of amputation or stoning under Shariah…
THE SPARTAN COURTAbdelouahab Aissaoui Dar Min, 2018 โ Fiction โ 388 pages The Spartan Court follows the interconnected lives of five characters in Algiers from 1815 to 1833. The first, Dupond, is a French journalist covering the colonial campaign against Algeria, the second, Caviard, is a former soldier in Napoleonโs army who finds himself a…
GUANTANAMO VOICES:ย True Accounts from the World’s Most Infamous PrisonSarah Mirk Comics & Graphic Novelsย –ย 208 pages An anthology of illustrated narratives about the prison and the lives it changed forever.ย In January 2002, the United States sent a group of Muslim men they suspected of terrorism to a prison in Guantรกnamo Bay. They were the first of…
FUTURE TENSENitasha KaulHarper Collins, 2020Fiction, General – 308 pages The son of a former militant, Fayaz is an aimless bureaucrat whose marriage to his wife Zeenat has broken down. His nephew Imran is a young student, a misfit in Srinagar, hoping to join a new kind of spectacular resistance. Shireen, the granddaughter of a spy,…