Laughing All The Way To The Mosque

Laughing All The Way To The MosqueBeing a practicing Muslim in the West is sometimes challenging, sometimes rewarding and sometimes downright absurd. How do you explain why Eid never falls on the same date each year; why it is that Halal butchers also sell teapots and alarm clocks; how do you make clear to the plumber that it's essential the toilet is installed within sitting arm's reach of the tap? Zarqa Nawaz has seen and done it all. And it's not always easy to get things right

" --Ransom Riggs

Oliver James's 'Affluenza' and Francis Wheen's 'How Mumbo-jumbo Conquered the World'

as former allies become competitors

and who taught him how to shoot

a man wakes up in a jar in a different kind of pickle (figuratively speaking)

must pull something special out of the bag

Single-minded in her mission

The very moments that require us to be genuine and commanding can instead cause us to feel phony and powerless

but we don

Trouble with Lichen

from the glamour of the legendary Copacabana Club to the austerity of a remote convent

The Mill on the Floss is considered George Eliot's most autobiographical novel