NbA Muslim Woman Writer’s Book Reviewed in College Newsletter

Last updated on: August 27, 2015 at 7:10 pm By NbAMuslims

Review in SUNY Empire State College’s The Student Connection newsletter Khadijah’s Got Her Groove by F.A. Ibrahim University Publications $13.46, 184 pp, paper Belonging to a vibrant array of social intersections, I found it is often difficult to connect with a lot of available fiction. The literary market is flooded with writing that contains normalized white Christian/secular characters and issues. As a result, there is not a lot of diversity in traditional fiction publishing, which means… View original 454 more... Read more

Whispers

Last updated on: August 26, 2015 at 5:41 am By NbAMuslims

A great short story depicting the struggles of the mother-writer! Ah, I’ve been in the heroine’s place so many times! Read more

3 MSiA Board Members Selected for ESC Student Leasdership Institute

Last updated on: August 24, 2015 at 11:17 am By NbAMuslims

This is a dynamic program! I can’t wait to get started! Read more

Islam on the U.S. Cultural Stage: The Black Muslims Part 1

Last updated on: August 23, 2015 at 4:36 pm By NbAMuslims

This is a presentation on #nbamuslims and Islam’s introduction as a substantive US religion. Muslims have been in America since before Columbus. Examples of Muslims in America include Pre-Colombian explorers, enslaved Africans, and immigrant waves beginning in the Nineteenth Century to present. During the mid-Twentieth Century, a group known as the Lost-Found Nation of Islam emerged in African-American communities and became a major catalyst for the introduction of Islam onto the American social, cultural, and religious stages. Because of attempts by the NOI to indoctrinate... Read more

NbA Muslim Author Sahar Abdulaziz featured in Book Reader Magazine

Last updated on: August 21, 2015 at 5:59 am By NbAMuslims

NbA Muslim woman writer Sahar Abdulaziz’s book The Broken Half is featured in Book Reads Magazine. The online publication is dedicated to introducing readers to new and interesting authors. Mabrook! For More on Sahar Abdulaziz, visit her: Author’s Page Facebook Twitter Read more

SAVE THE DATE: Oct. 1 – Metropolitan Review Reception

Last updated on: August 19, 2015 at 5:48 pm By NbAMuslims

NbA Muslims project manager Layla Abdullah-Poulos will have a short story published in the next issue of the Metropolitan Review. Read more

NbA Muslim Woman Shares her Conversion Experience in Muslim Village

Last updated on: August 19, 2015 at 4:33 pm By NbAMuslims

Euro-American Muslim Carolyn Erazo shared her conversion story on muslimvillage.com. In her story, Erazo describes how a Latino-American Imam helped her on her journey to discovering and embracing her new faith. Abdul didn’t speak much he let the questions just pour from mind to my mouth. With each question he answered quick and to the point yet as each one was answered I began to notice they just seemed right. Read Carolyn Erazo’s full conversion story. Read more

NbA Muslim Author Answers Fans’ Questions

Last updated on: August 19, 2015 at 1:59 am By NbAMuslims

Author of AS ONE DOOR CLOSES and THE BROKEN HALF Sahar Abdulaziz allowed her readers to pick some questions to ask her. Abdulaziz posted a list of numbered questions on her Facebook page yesterday and told everyone to “pick a number.” There were quite a few numbers picked. Some numbers were picked more than once. Today, Abdulaziz released her answers on her Author’s Blog. Her answers were amusing. Some were downright hilarious! Visit Abdulaziz’s blog page to get a nice... Read more

NbA Muslimah Shares her Experiences with Erasure

Last updated on: August 18, 2015 at 10:07 am By NbAMuslims

In her Alt Muslimah article, educator and activist Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow describes the erasure of her African-American Muslimah identity by her fellow non-African-American Muslims and the broader society. It is very compelling! ” Being an African American Muslim woman means that there are multiple ways people refuse to see me…” Read Thompkins-Bigelow’s full article INVISIBLE WOMAN (ALSO KNOWN AS MUSLIMAH) Read more

NbA Muslim Karimah Grayson Interviewed about her Latest Book

Last updated on: August 18, 2015 at 9:55 am By NbAMuslims

Author Karimah Grayson shares some of her motivations and processes while writing her newest novel The Shoulders on which we stand. Visit Of Thoughts and Words for her full interview. To learn more about Karimah Grayson, visit her: Author’s Page Amazon Page Facebook Page Read more