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The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf is a novel by acclaimed author and poet Dr. Mohja Kahf. Syrian immigrant Khadra Shamy is growing up in a devout, tight-knit Muslim family in 1970s Indiana, at the crossroads of bad polyester and Islamic dress codes. Along with her brother Eyad and her African-American friends, Hakim and Hanifa, she bikes the Indianapolis streets, exploring the fault-lines between “Muslim” and “American,” and butting into Muslim-on-Muslim racism and Sunni-Shia tension as well as the bigotry directed at the Muslim community. That's how the novel begins...where grown-up Khadra ends up will surprise you. Featuring  exuberant characters, with narrative nods to Sandra Cisneros, Willa Cather, Alex Haley, Allegra Goodman, and other influences, this novel gives you Muslim Americans as you’ve never seen  them before—three-dimensional, likeable, infuriating, funny, real. It’s a novel about friendships, racism, prayer, and life in hopelessly  flat Indiana, which anyone would need faith to survive. The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf charts the spiritual and social landscape of Muslims in middle America, from five daily prayers to the  Indy 500 race car finale.  To purchase a copy, go to kvisionbooks.com/product_info.php/The_Girl_in_the_Tangerine_Scarf_A_Novel/

Muslim Women Activists in North America: Speaking for Ourselves is a  book that tells the story of seventeen Muslim women across the United States and Canada who devoted themselves to some kind of activism in addition to their other life activities.  more...

Acting on Faith: Women's New Religious Activism in America is a documentary film, produced by the Pluralism Project at Harvard, that offers an intimate look at the lives and work of three American women, a Buddhist, a Hindu, and a Muslim, for whom faith, activism, and identity are deeply intertwined. more...