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Muslim Girl - A Coming of Age (Paperback)
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Muslim Girl - A Coming of Age (Paperback)
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In this New York Times Editor's Pick, the brilliant founder of
MuslimGirl.com shares her harrowing and candid account of what it's
like to be a young Muslim woman in the wake of 9/11, during the
never-ending war on terror, and through the Trump era of casual
racism.At nine years old, Amani Al-Khatahtbeh watched from her home
in New Jersey as two planes crashed into the World Trade Center on
September 11, 2001. That same year, she heard her first racial
slur. At thirteen, her family took a trip to her father's native
homeland of Jordan, and Amani experienced firsthand a culture built
on the true peaceful nature of Islam in its purest form, not the
Islamic stereotypes she heard on the news. Inspired by her trip and
after years of feeling like her voice as a Muslim woman was
marginalized during a time when it seemed all Western media could
talk about was, ironically, Muslim women, Amani created a website
called Muslim Girl. As the editor-in-chief, she put together a team
of Muslim women and started a life dedicated to activism. Muslim
Girl: A Coming of Age is the extraordinary account of Amani's
journey through adolescence as a Muslim girl, from the Islamophobia
she's faced on a daily basis, to the website she launched that
became a cultural phenomenon, to the nation's political climate in
2016 as Donald Trump wins the presidency. While dispelling the myth
that a headscarf signifies neither radicalism nor oppression, she
shares both her own personal accounts and anecdotes from the
"sisterhood" of writers that serve as her editorial team at Muslim
Girl. Amani's "blunt...potent message...is a skillful unraveling of
the myth of the submissive Muslim woman" (The New York Times Book
Review) and a deeply necessary counterpoint to the current rhetoric
about the Middle East.
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