‘Scholars and Their Kin’ review
In an inexplicable moment of synchronicity, this book was brought to my attention as I was drafting an abstract for
Lulu in the Spotlight: A South Asian Wedding Story by Natasha Khan Kazi
This adorable 40 page culture focused picture book explores a Desi tradition with layers of competition, frustration, mystery, problem solving,
The Matchmaker by Aisha Saeed
There is no Islam, save being told a wedding took place in a mosque, in this 320 page adult book
Ramadan Reflections: A Guided Journal by Aliyah Umm Raiyaan
I had started this book on the first day of Ramadan thinking I could double up some days and finish
On the Spot: Patricia Fara
Why are you a historian of science? I read physics, but the history of science is more fun: you have
Catherine of Siena’s American Daughters
Catherine of Siena (1347-80) was made a saint in 1461, less than a century after she died. In 1970 Pope
‘Queen James’ by Gareth Russell review
The Scottish throne was a blood-soaked inheritance. James I, crowned at just 11, was murdered in a sewer in 1437.
Early Modern Millers’ Tales | History Today
By the end of the medieval period millers had poor reputations. Chaucer’s miller in the Canterbury Tales was coarse, vulgar,
‘The Crisis of Colonial Anglicanism’ by Martyn Percy review
The morning after Edward VII was crowned King of Great Britain and Emperor of India in Westminster Abbey, Canon Welldon
Eid al-Fitr Celebration & Bazaar
Another Ramadan has come and gone. We are here again at the Eid al-Fitr Celebration & Bazaar in Beaverton, Oregon,
