“Let’s invite one another in. Maybe we can begin to fear less, make fewer wrong assumptions, to...
BOOK REVIEWS
Book Introduction: Islam without Extremes: A Muslim Case for Liberty – By Mustafa Akyol
The Quran teaches that, in the afterlife, God will judge the life lived by every individual in...
The Last Lecture: Randy Pausche with Jeffry Oslaw
My husband bought this book online in a moment of inspiration. He had listened to a speech by PMA...
‘In Memoriam’ & ‘I’m Looking’ Two Aura Contributors’ New Poetry Books
“Is it ever truly quiet here? It cannot be Not when the sounds of mourning echoes. A mother left...
When Breath Becomes Air
“I began to realize that coming in such close contact with my own mortality had changed both...
Addressing gender disparity in Muslim education
First published in NewsTrail, Nov 2021The book under review is a monumental exercise in mining...
DUNE By Frank Herbert
Upon a biscuit-coloured landscape, two solitary figures dressed in special stillsuits designed to...
Book Review: A Place for Us, Fatima Farheen Mirza
Review by : Ayesha SyedPublished in 2018, A Place for Us is the debut novel of Fatima Farheen...
Perceptions By Maulana Maududi
I remember picking the Urdu version of “Perceptions” a long while back and reluctantly giving up...
Azadi by Arundhati Roy
“ Does a country fall into fascism the way a person falls in love? Or, more accurately, in hate?”...
On Palestine By : Noam Chomsky, Ilan Pappe and Frank Barat
“Finding a solution to this question could then openthe door to a new vision, to a new world, to...
