New Moons
Contemporary Writing by North American Muslims
Published on 16. November 2021
341 pages
978-1-63628-007-3 (ISBN)
Description
The only Muslim American anthology of its kind, edited by star poet and author, Kazim Ali!
Featuring a dynamic combination of poets, essayists, and memoirists including Kaveh Akbar, Hala Alyan, Ramy El Etreby, Aslan Demir, and more!
Pieces are written from a wide range of contemporary Muslim American experiences, from those born Muslims to those newly converted, and from all backgrounds and walks of life, reflecting the greater body of Muslim Americans as they are today.
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Content
- Front Cover
- Half-Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments ! Permissions
- Contents
- Kazim Ali
- Introduction
- Dilruba Ahmed
- Choke
- The Feast
- Google Search Autocomplete
- Snake Oil, Snake Bite
- Hina Ahmed
- Oxygen
- Tanzila Ahmed
- Muslimah Fight Club
- Kaveh Akbar
- Learning to Pray
- Every Drunk Wants to Die Sober It's How We Beat the Game
- Being in This World Makes Me Feel Like a Time Traveler
- Heritage
- Sarah Ghazal Ali
- in which Nisa bargains unevenly
- self-portrait as body written for God
- Threa Almontaser
- Spray of Citrus and a Month-Long Suffering
- Raghead Gains Enlightenment
- Hala Alyan
- A Good Penance
- Barrak Alzaid
- "The Lesson"
- Ruth Awad
- The Keeper of Allah's Hidden Names
- Let me be a lamb in a world that wants my lion.
- Amor Fati
- a. azad
- shahadah
- Ayeh Bandeh-Ahmadi
- Arab Sheik
- Mariam Bazeed
- pure, again
- Mandy Fessenden Brauer
- Memories of Palestine During the First Intifada
- Hayan Charara
- Bees, Honeycombs, Honey
- Being Muslim
- What They Did
- Leila Chatti
- Night Lament in Hergla
- What Do Arabs Think of Ghosts?
- Muslim Christmas
- Zara Chowdhary
- Slow Violence
- Mahdi Chowdhury
- A dream is a merciful thing
- Aslan Demir
- My Mother's Rugs
- Ramy El-Etreby
- (Muslim) Americans in Service-A Civil Drama (an excerpt)
- Hazem Fahmy
- Abdel Halim Performs a Private Concert for My Mother
- At the Gates, Mikhail Makes Me a Feast of Rain and Dirt
- Tarfia Faizullah
- Infinity Ghazal Beginning with Lice and Never Ending with Lies
- That One Time I Stayed Up All Night Making Excuses to Talk to Danger
- Yahya Frederickson
- What I Learn about Poetry In Syria
- What I Learn about Poetry In Yemen
- Farah Ghafoor
- End of the World Poem
- How to Talk White
- Lamya H
- How to De-queer Your Apartment
- Samina Hadi-Tabassum
- Maqbool
- Umar Hanif
- For Hasan Faqih on a Hat You Don't Remember
- Shadab Zeest Hashmi
- Ghazal for the Girl in the Photo
- Qasida of 700,000 Years of Love
- Noor Hindi
- On Language & Mourning
- Mahin Ibrahim
- "You Care More about Me Being Black Than I Do-Reflections on an Interracial Marriage"
- Hilal Isler
- Never Forget
- Mohja Kahf
- Woman-crisp
- Off Your Ars Poetica
- Exile Is a Dream Like This
- Sheba Karim
- The Lives of Pious Women
- Seelai Karzai
- The Night Journey
- Saba Keramati
- Namaaz
- At Headlands National Park
- Nightlong Longing
- Naazish Yar Khan
- Lost in Translation between Delhi and Chicago
- Nashwa Khan
- [untitled]
- Shamima Khan
- Fall
- Uzma Aslam Khan
- Stealth Christian, Stealth Muslim
- Serena W. Lin
- People Here Love You
- Tariq Luthun
- The Summer My Cousin Went Missing
- Ode to Brown Child on an Airplane for the First Time
- I Sing This Elegy for the Nameless
- Upon Leaving the Diamond to Catch 14 Stitches in My Brow
- Political Poem
- I Go to the Backyard to Pick Mint Leaves for My Mother
- Tara Mesalik MacMahon
- A Pilgrimage to the Hives of Withered Bees
- Even the Sky Bleeds
- Haroon Moghul
- Quebec Was the Semi-Colon
- Faisal Mohyuddin
- Ghazal for the Diaspora
- Song of Myself as a Tomorrow
- Nour Naas
- Mother(land)
- Leila Christine Nadir
- Cold War
- Noor Ibn Najam
- questions arabic asked in english
- Samina Najmi
- Memoir in Dust
- Threshold
- Sham-e-Ali Nayeem
- Partition Story
- REMEMBER THE NIGHT
- Zeeshan Pathan
- Rampant, I
- To A Mother Tongue I Can No Longer Pronounce
- Lorca, II
- Hana Qwfan
- Ghusl
- Unowned Body Parts
- Anisa Rahim
- A Russian Hacked My Pinterest Account
- Hot Carpets
- Duaa Randhawa
- A piece from Bouts
- Sehrish Ranjha
- He Never Had His Own Story
- Aatif Rashid
- My Racist Girlfriend
- Alicia Razvi
- The Hands of Fate
- Bushra Rehman
- Rapunzel's Mother or a Pakistani Woman Newly Arrived in America
- Ammi's Cassettes
- Masjid
- Marina Reza
- Lashes
- Zohra Saed
- Aqua Net Days
- Omar Sarwar
- Origami Butterfly
- Deonna Kelli Sayed
- Sharia Love, Sort Of
- Tariq Shah
- untitled
- Deema Shehabi
- Ghazal: A Lover's Quarrel with the World
- Robert Frost at the Alumnae Garden
- Adeeba Talukder
- Ghazal
- January 9th, 2008
- Fatima van Hattum
- 5.11.18
- Rocks and Fiction
- Rabía van Hattum
- End of Ramadan
- Notes from Lefke
- Seema Yasmin
- Dhosa
- Contributors' Notes
- Back Cover
