May 6th, 20240By Anne Marie Ameri, Ph.D.
Dearborn has been called the “Sleeping Tiger” because of the potential political power of particularly the Dearborn Arabic residents when it is “awakened.”
For five years, I was compelled to write this powerful book, Awakening the Sleeping Tiger Within: Breaking the Power of Mainstream Media’s...
April 12th, 20190ROCKVILLE, MD — “They Called Me Wyatt”, coming out in June from California Coldblood Books, is a murder mystery set in Jordan and the United States that deals with issues of immigration, race and the need for belonging in a new land.
“I originally wrote it as a short story," said author and journalist Natasha Tynes. "I shared...
February 4th, 20190
BROOKLYN, NY — Debbie Almontaser stopped by Greenlight Bookstore in Fort Greene as she promoted her first book, “Leading While Muslim.” She said the backlash she received as the founding principal of the country’s first Arabic language public school inspired her to write it.
“I was targeted big-time both individually and...
July 6th, 20180FLINT — Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, known as the primary whistleblower in the Flint water crisis, documented her personal experience of seeking proof of lead poisoning in Flint’s children in her book “What the Eyes Don’t See.”
The book not only describes her struggle bringing the Flint Water Crisis to the public, but includes...
March 23rd, 20180HAMTRAMCK — "Readers Resist", a book club organized by Planned Parenthood volunteers and activists, met for the first time this year on March 21 inside Book Suey, a book shop in Hamtramck. Since last summer, club members have met monthly to discuss the book of the month.
Some books read so far include, "We Should all be Feminists"...
January 5th, 20180
DALLAS, TEXAS — Waseem Nabulsi, an 18-year-old senior at St. Mark's School of Texas, a private, nonsectarian college-preparatory boys' day school for students in grades 1 through 12, became a published poet and artist this past fall with the release of "Under My Grandmother's Olive Tree: Poems and Artwork about being...
