The Arab Season

Fiction & Literature, Contemporary Women
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Author: Alisa Ahlam ISBN: 9781466198685
Publisher: Alisa Ahlam Publication: November 3, 2011
Imprint: Smashwords Edition Language: English
Author: Alisa Ahlam
ISBN: 9781466198685
Publisher: Alisa Ahlam
Publication: November 3, 2011
Imprint: Smashwords Edition
Language: English

The Arab Season tells the story of four young Muslim women living in England. For these girls living in a city such as London presents many temptations. If they succumb Allah may forgive them, but their community will not.

The novel deals with these conflicts as experienced by Hani, Hamdi, Zuleka, and Ayan, four beautiful, young, and educated Muslim girls who try to balance two cultures– the Islamic conservative one they were raised to live by and the decadent Western one that is all around them.

They play a dangerous game as they weave deceit by seeming to tow the line in their own culture, which demands modest and piety whilst enjoying the forbidden fruits of the carefree and sometimes promiscuous western lifestyle

Book blurb

Secrecy is their byword, family honour, their cross to bear.
If you were a Muslim girl wanting to keep family honour, but loving Western ways, how would you play it? With one foot in each culture, Hani thought she and her friends knew how. They enjoyed what they shouldn’t. They paid a price. One of them paid with her life.

Zuleka’s father, an Imam, keeps his household of girls under strict rule. All have to wear the hijab with abaya or other forms of loose fitting, modest clothing. To him, Zuleka is the epitome of a dutiful daughter. She dreads him discovering her other life.

Hamdi has the most freedom, abandoned by her mother and discounted by her father; she’s loose cannon with attitude.

Ayan manages her life well, respecting her faith and culture, whilst enjoying some light relief.

And, Hani? She can trick her hypochondriac mother, but her radical brother poses her problems.

They enjoy life, but are on a crash course to disaster!

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The Arab Season tells the story of four young Muslim women living in England. For these girls living in a city such as London presents many temptations. If they succumb Allah may forgive them, but their community will not.

The novel deals with these conflicts as experienced by Hani, Hamdi, Zuleka, and Ayan, four beautiful, young, and educated Muslim girls who try to balance two cultures– the Islamic conservative one they were raised to live by and the decadent Western one that is all around them.

They play a dangerous game as they weave deceit by seeming to tow the line in their own culture, which demands modest and piety whilst enjoying the forbidden fruits of the carefree and sometimes promiscuous western lifestyle

Book blurb

Secrecy is their byword, family honour, their cross to bear.
If you were a Muslim girl wanting to keep family honour, but loving Western ways, how would you play it? With one foot in each culture, Hani thought she and her friends knew how. They enjoyed what they shouldn’t. They paid a price. One of them paid with her life.

Zuleka’s father, an Imam, keeps his household of girls under strict rule. All have to wear the hijab with abaya or other forms of loose fitting, modest clothing. To him, Zuleka is the epitome of a dutiful daughter. She dreads him discovering her other life.

Hamdi has the most freedom, abandoned by her mother and discounted by her father; she’s loose cannon with attitude.

Ayan manages her life well, respecting her faith and culture, whilst enjoying some light relief.

And, Hani? She can trick her hypochondriac mother, but her radical brother poses her problems.

They enjoy life, but are on a crash course to disaster!

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