7/8/2023 0 Comments Courting Samira by Amal Awad![]() ![]() The breadth, variety and beauty of what Amal has discovered will enthral and surprise you. At its heart this fascinating book normalises people and their experiences. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. In a time of racial tension and rising global fear around terrorism, there is a renewed fear of 'the other'. ![]() How do you get to know someone when the options seem to be to get married or end up a spinster? Why is her best friend Lara insisting that Menem isn't right for her? And why has her childhood friend Hakeem started behaving so strangely? A light-hearted but honest peek into the life of a young, single Muslim woman who knows there's more to life than love at first suitor visit. But with that comes a whole new set of problems. When she meets Menem in a chance encounter at a team-building day, for the first time Samira knows what it's like to naturally be interested in someone. Then she unwittingly becomes wedding gofer for her cousin/nemesis Zahra and her life begins to resemble a soap opera. A girl has to have some standards, right? As an assistant at Bridal Bazaar magazine, Samira's sick of all things wedding-related. ![]() Her general rule: if he comes in wearing shoes with tassels, a leather jacket circa 1982, and/or has a moustache, the doorknock appeal will fail from the outset. It may be the twenty-first century, but who says courtship is obsolete? Coming from a (somewhat traditional) Muslim family, twenty-seven-year-old Samira Abdel-Aziz has seen her fair share of suitors. ![]()
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