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The Land in Our Bones by Layla K. Feghali, a Lebanese ethnobotanist and cultural worker, is a remarkable book focused on the plants and ancestral healing practices of the Levant. It is also filled with reflections on the wounds inflicted by colonisation, what it means to live in the diaspora, and finding meaning and belonging in the spaces “in-between.'' Seamlessly flowing from the informative to the poetic and back again, it is richly interspersed with the stories and knowledge shared by village elders and indigenous healers, as well as relevant folklore and mythological cosmologies of the re...
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A Mouth Full of Salt is the debut novel by Sudanese public health physician and writer Reem Gaafar. It won the 2023 Island Prize, marking the first time a Sudanese author has received this prize. In their press release, the prize judges praised the novel for being "stylistically simple, insightful, and elegant, sharing truths like all the best fiction." Indeed, Gaafar reveals many truths in her debut. The novel opens in 1989 with the news of a missing — and presumably drowned — young boy, Mohamed Hamid Kheir Alseed, which throws the residents of an unnamed village near the Sudanese city of Kar...
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After Brian Baumgartner released Seriously Good Chili Cookbook: 177 of the Best Recipes in the World— a cookbook dedicated to chili, a nod to his character, Kevin Malone, in The Office— in 2022, he became interested in putting out another cookbook, but this time around, it would be something he was passionate about. "I make chili now — that is true, but it wasn't something I had ever really made growing up or even as an adult now. Let's just say the incident occurred [referring to Kevin making his famous chili in the series], and since then, I've made quite a bit of chili. But something I actu...
Morning Honey (AU)
After Brian Baumgartner released Seriously Good Chili Cookbook: 177 of the Best Recipes in the World— a cookbook dedicated to chili, a nod to his character, Kevin Malone, in The Office— in 2022, he became interested in putting out another cookbook, but this time around, it would be something he was passionate about. "I make chili now — that is true, but it wasn't something I had ever really made growing up or even as an adult now. Let's just say the incident occurred [referring to Kevin making his famous chili in the series], and since then, I've made quite a bit of chili. But something I actu...
Morning Honey (UK)
After Brian Baumgartner released Seriously Good Chili Cookbook: 177 of the Best Recipes in the World— a cookbook dedicated to chili, a nod to his character, Kevin Malone, in The Office— in 2022, he became interested in putting out another cookbook, but this time around, it would be something he was passionate about. "I make chili now — that is true, but it wasn't something I had ever really made growing up or even as an adult now. Let's just say the incident occurred [referring to Kevin making his famous chili in the series], and since then, I've made quite a bit of chili. But something I actu...
Morning Honey (CA)
After Brian Baumgartner released Seriously Good Chili Cookbook: 177 of the Best Recipes in the World— a cookbook dedicated to chili, a nod to his character, Kevin Malone, in The Office— in 2022, he became interested in putting out another cookbook, but this time around, it would be something he was passionate about. "I make chili now — that is true, but it wasn't something I had ever really made growing up or even as an adult now. Let's just say the incident occurred [referring to Kevin making his famous chili in the series], and since then, I've made quite a bit of chili. But something I actu...
Morning Honey
InTraces of Enayat (And Other Stories, 2023), the author embarks on a compelling journey to uncover the life of an Egyptian female writer. Iman Mersal blends biography and autobiography, offering insights into the research process and introspection. The narrative revolves around Enayat al-Zayyat, whose only book Love and Silence was published posthumously following her tragic suicide in her early twenties, upon hearing of various rejections of her manuscript. Mersal’s exploration of Enayat’s life, drawn from fragmented narrations and articles, reveals the challenge of uncovering concealed trut...
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More To The Story is a middle-grade novel by award-winning author Hena Khan. Set in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, this story follows a Pakistani-American family, the Mirzas, its four sisters: Maryam, Jameela, Bisma, and Aleeza, and how they navigate significant life changes. The book is an enjoyable read that caters well towards its target audience yet is rich enough to be enjoyed by more mature readers. The book starts with an Eid celebration, allowing readers to glimpse the diasporic South Asian Muslim tradition. This Eid, Jameela’s father is out of town for a job interview, and the girls struggle ...
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Islam has its own pre-modern secularity that is distinctly different from the European Universalist understanding of secularism: This is the intriguing argument made by Sherman Jackson in The Islamic Secular. His new book argues that secularism was widely practised in the Muslim world and the intention of Sharia — a body of religious law that forms a part of the Islamic tradition based on the scriptures of Islam — was to have a large secular space. Jackson often produces fascinating work, whether delving into the history of Islam among Black Americans, tackling medieval Ayyubid-Mamluk law, or ...
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Saqi Books has recently published a reissue of Tahir Wattar’s modern Algerian classic novel, The Earthquake, on its 50th anniversary. Wattar is a renowned Algerian author whose works have been salient in understanding the complexities of post-colonial Algeria. The events of the book take place in the nascent stages of the country’s independence. However, Tahir Wattar’s world is far from idyllic. He depicts a grotesque society in profound turmoil after colonial entities have ravaged their lives. A rift has been created among a community that must reconcile their rapture at independence with the...
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