The Incidental Muslim

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The Incidental Muslim is written by Amal Awad and published by . It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0992422701 (ISBN 10) and 9780992422707 (ISBN 13).

The Incidental Muslim is an honest, witty and heartfelt collection of columns and new musings by writer Amal Awad. Growing up in Australia as a hybrid identity (Arab-Australian-Muslim), Amal has unique insights on career, life, love and feminism.A passionate moviegoer and TV buff, she also considers her love of storytelling and how Hollywood just can't get their portrayals of Muslims right. More specifically, she bemoans the lack of the incidental Muslim - the character who just happens to be a Muslim, rather than the usual three Cs: cab drivers, convenience store owners or crackpots. Excerpt from The Incidental Muslim"Like any teenager, I had modest career aspirations. In my case, I would take singing lessons in order to develop my singing voice, before proceeding on to an illustrious career in musical theatre. My 'Everest' was to play Christine in Phantom of the Opera, though being thereasonable character that I am, Maria in West Side Story would have kept me equally satisfied. The only real, and I suppose rather significant, dent in the plan was that I was growing up Muslim." Praise for The Incidental Muslim"Despite what the title may suggest, The Incidental Muslim is a privileged insight into the life of, yes - a Muslim woman. Snapshots of the author's life, from childhood to student and now a writer, endear us to a world that turns out to be unmistakably familiar. Such is the uniquenessof Amal Awad's voice: it actually represents the women of today, whether they are Muslim or not." - Liana Rosnita, editor, Aquila Style About the AuthorAmal Awad is a writer, author and journalist. An Arab-Muslim Australian, Amal frequentlywrites and speaks about issues of society, religion and popular culture. She has addressedfestivals, universities, youth groups and community organisations, and has appeared onnational radio, including RN Life Matters and The Drawing Room with Waleed Aly and NikkiGemmell. Amal is a columnist for popular Muslim women's website Aquila Style, and a regularcontributor to Australian websites Daily Life, ABC Religion and Ethics, and The Vine. Her writinghas also been published in Frankie magazine and The Sydney Morning Herald. Amal publishedher debut novel Courting Samira - a tale of Muslim courtship and coming of age in the modernera - in 2010, and was selected as a quarter- finalist in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award. More recently she contributed to the anthology Coming of Age: Growing up Muslim inAustralia (Allen & Unwin, 2014), and is currently working on various projects, including hersecond novel, This Is How You Get Better.