Punk rocker Tanzila Ahmed finds herself entranced by a bad boy musician with a 'six-month itch ' Leila Khan's mother prepares dinner for her and her Italian suitor, but in protest of her daughter's relationship with a non-Muslim refuses to remain in the house during his visit and Yasmine begins a long-distance relationship with a Muslim man who is divorced and has a 6-year old. “Portraits of private lives that expose a group in some cases kept literally veiled, yet that also illustrate that American Muslim women grapple with universal issues.” - The New York TimesĪmerican Muslim women give first-person accounts of the challenges and joys of falling in love in this well-meaning but uninspired collection of essays.

“A beautiful collection that reminds us all not only of the diversity of the American Muslim community, but the universality of the human condition, especially when it comes to something as magical and complicated as love.” -Reza Aslan, #1 New York Times bestselling author of God: A Human History These compelling stories of love and romance create an irresistible balance of heart-warming and tantalizing, always revealing and deeply relatable. And a Southern woman agrees to consider an arranged marriage, with surprising results. A young girl defies her South Asian parents’ cultural expectations with an interracial relationship. An orthodox African-American woman must face her growing attraction to her female friend. These stories are filled with passion and hope, loss and longing: A quintessential blonde California girl travels abroad to escape suffocating responsibilities at home, only to fall in love with a handsome Brazilian stranger she may never see again. Romance, dating, sex and-Muslim women? In this groundbreaking collection, twenty-five American Muslim writers sweep aside stereotypes to share their search for love openly for the first time, showing just how varied the search for love can be-from singles’ events and online dating, to college flirtations and arranged marriages, all with a uniquely Muslim twist. This “book that strips off the traditional trappings of Islamic womanhood to expose the special strengths and vulnerabilities that lie beneath” ( The Washington Post) affirms the reality of the romantic lives of Muslim women.

Love, InshAllah by Nura Maznavi