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		<description><![CDATA[A.R. Rahman&#8217;s acceptance speech for his award began with a single, resounding, reverberating word. &#8220;Alhamdulillah.&#8221; I did not have the fortune to witness that moment, but my mother did. Before such an audience, in front of the top-ranking members of an industry that can get so morally debased, my mother remarked, he took God&#8217;s name. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amuslimahwrites.wordpress.com&amp;blog=22375152&amp;post=1176&amp;subd=amuslimahwrites&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Considering I&#8217;ve delved into the topic of love plenty in this blog, I&#8217;d like commemorate this occasion and send out warmth, appreciation, and, yes, love, to all readers of this blog. I do lean towards the sentiment that Valentine&#8217;s Day is largely a Hallmark holiday. I dislike the idea of spending money to celebrate it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amuslimahwrites.wordpress.com&amp;blog=22375152&amp;post=1115&amp;subd=amuslimahwrites&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t worry, I&#8217;m not going to go all Taqwacore on you. But I did want to explore how experiencing the dunya on its own terms made me, well, me. Me the Muslim. During a strange, difficult time almost a year ago, I found redemption, as I usually do, through books, friends, prayer. But those were [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amuslimahwrites.wordpress.com&amp;blog=22375152&amp;post=1083&amp;subd=amuslimahwrites&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Reading Love, InshAllah</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Title: Love, InshAllah: The Secret Love Lives of American Muslim Women Editors: Ayesha Mattu, Nura Maznavi Publication Date: January 2012  Genre: Romantic creative nonfiction  (I made that up, but it sure beats &#8220;Women&#8217;s Studies&#8221;!) Source: eGalley from editor With the very conscious agenda to dismantle stereotypes and perceptions about Muslim women and love, Love InshAllah gives a glimpse [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amuslimahwrites.wordpress.com&amp;blog=22375152&amp;post=1016&amp;subd=amuslimahwrites&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 23:47:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Professor Linda Hutcheon recently gave a talk at the Toronto Public Library discussing the ethics of reviewing. Since I have a fairly unconventional approach to reviewing books, I was very interested in what she had to say. This post is a (not very brief) summary of Hutcheon&#8217;s richly nuanced and insightful talk and my response [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amuslimahwrites.wordpress.com&amp;blog=22375152&amp;post=1027&amp;subd=amuslimahwrites&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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