From the indies sure to be jockeying for Oscars, to a new Halloween and Pinocchio, here are the movies we're most excited about this fall. When blogger Umairah Hussain asked her readers if they would join a book club for science fiction and fantasy novels by Muslim authors, she was overwhelmed by the enthusiastic response and. Entertainment Weekly may receive compensation for some links to products and services on this website.

Islam has become a hotly-debated topic with the rise of militant groups like the Islamic State in recent years and al-Qaeda before them. Maya, a doctor, remains a revolutionary, while Sohail, once her idol, has become a conservative religious leader. The first book in this bestselling series (which includes follow-upsA Torch Against the Night, A Reaper at the Gates, and A Sky Beyond the Storm) sees rebel Laia go undercover as a slave at a renownedmilitary academy to rescue her captured older brother only to join forces with Elias, a reluctant elite soldier looking to escape a life of violence. Saeed takes readers to Pakistan as they follow the story ofNaila, a Pakistani American girl, who is caught between her American upbringing and her Pakistani roots and is forced into a marriage based on her conservative parents' wishes. Jemisin is a New York Times-bestselling author of speculative fiction short stories and novels, who lives and writes in Brooklyn, NY. February 2: The Book of Memory by Petina Gappah (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) Petina Gappah's The Book of Memory is the only Nabokovian meditation on living in memoryfrom the perspective of an albino inmate of a Zimbabwean women's prisonthat you need to read this year. Discover Muslim authors from around the world. It is divided into two sections: part one. Instead, this book examines the nature, genesis, and history of Arabic and Muslim science fiction, as well as the challenges faced by its authors, in the authors' own words. Death and the Dervish by Mea Selimovi: The most well-known book by Yugoslav author Selimovi is set in 18th century Bosnia which was at the time a province of the Ottoman Empire.

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