A very bold book. Manji is funny, but I doubt if her sense of humor would be tolerated by most Muslims who read her book. Tough love. That’s what she calls it. Muslims (or Islam today) needs someone to shake them/it into waking up to the reality of today. She argues that Islam is in [...]
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The Trouble with Islam Today by Irshad Manji
Posted in Books on August 31, 2009 | 7 Comments »
عزازيل – رواية ليوسف زيدان
Posted in Books on August 26, 2009 | 8 Comments »
A wonderful book about a monk’s search for the truth and his gradual realization that truth is not as absolute as his religious teachings dictate. The novel begins with the narrator (this is a novel in the epistolary form. These journal entries are supposed to have been found years after they were written) wondering how [...]
Vacation … books … missing
Posted in Books, Life on December 6, 2008 | 5 Comments »
When you’re feeling lonely ’cause your significant other is out of town, and you’re bored ’cause it’s a vacation and you’re trapped in town, nothing’s better than to catch up on postponed readings. And as Arabic books seem a distraction while I teach English literature (the mind switching between Arabic and English texts seems to [...]
Green and a barren Road
Posted in Books, Life on November 18, 2008 | 9 Comments »
This morning at work I signed a ‘Go Green’ form brought by a student. And when I head back from work, I find out that project Go Green is ready to start at home. Here are the boys with their garden tools, hard, or so it seems, at work.
I wonder how long before these flowers [...]
Al-Daya: Dalal & Domesticity
Posted in Books, TV on September 28, 2008 | 13 Comments »
The month is coming to an end, and as promised in a comment on my previous post on Fitha, this one goes to Hayat Al-Fahad’s Al-Daya.
What happened to Dalal (Mona Shaddad)? Domesticity changed her from a caring, compassionate, and smart woman to an old-fashioned jealous wife whose fear of losing her husband to another [...]
Eat, Pray, LOVE
Posted in Books, Life on September 24, 2008 | 10 Comments »
Today I celebrate.
I choose to begin my new blog today with Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert mainly because today marks my own celebration of love and this book attempts to conclude with finding love, a place where spirituality wins when the mind steps aside to allow love to dominate. The thought is a [...]
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