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PAPATIA FEAUXZAR
Papatia Feauxzar is the Founder of Djarabi Kitabs Publishing and Fofky’s. An American author, barista, and publisher of African descent, she lives in Dallas, Texas with her family. Feauxzar is also a practicing accountant who holds a master's degree in Accounting with a concentration in Personal Finance. She has been featured in the Dallas Morning News, DFW Child and Voyage Dallas. Visit her blogs at papatia.wordpress.com or aducktrinormom.wordpress.com .
MARTINA HUSSEIN
Martina Marie Hussein is a proud American born revert to Islam. She was born and raised in rural Oklahoma. She attended several Universities and holds a Doctorate degree in Educational Leadership in Special Education from Gwynedd Mercy University in Pennsylvania where she now resides with her family. Martina takes great pride in working with both Muslim and non-Muslim students with disabilities in an inner-city school system. She believes that by engaging the public and developing strong interfaith relationships we can empower our young Muslim students and communities. It is her life’s work to help mold young minds and develop our children as active, participating members of society: our future leaders.
ASIILA IMANI
Asiila Imani is an American convert of 39 years. She has a BA in Communications from Washington State University and has done some graduate work in Linguistics at the University of Arizona. Asiila currently works with pregnant and laboring women as a doula/traditional midwife, specializing in birth center and homebirths. She has a few articles and short stories floating around on the internet, with plans to pen more, as soon as she reconnects with her muse. Her essay, “Three” is in the 2012 anthology, The Secret Love Lives of American Muslim Women.
She is married, the mother of two men children, finally entering the realm of “grand mamahood” when her eldest made her a G-Ma in 2016. Her current hobbies are gardening, reading, yoga, walking, and happily spoiling said grandson. Visit her Amazon and Goodreads pages.
SANA KHAN
Sana is a Motivational Speaker, Writer, Host and a Confidence and Breakthrough Coach. With an Engineering background and a Masters in International Business, she has more than 15 years of experience working in Corporates. Loves to inspire and empower people through her writing, videos and coaching. She has been writing for more than 5 years on her blog: fromadaydreamersdiary.wordpress.com. She likes to write spiritual poetry as well. She is currently working on her first fantasy fiction YA novel which she hopes to finish by December 2021. Dreamcatcher Framework is her Debut non-Fiction work. Sana lives in Belgium with her husband and their son.
For more information about Sana and her work, visit www.talkwithsana.com
M.K.JOHNSTON
M.K. Johnston is an American-born revert to Islam. She has a B.A. in Studies in Women and Gender from the University of Virginia. Although her career path has led her in many directions: from working as a prison guard, to counseling survivors of domestic abuse, to working with special needs children, to becoming a seller on eBay; M.K. has always had a deep and abiding love for two things: cooking and writing. After spending most of her spare time on one or the other interest, she eventually realized that she should combine her two loves and simply write about cooking. M.K. is the author of Halal Comfort Food: The New Muslim’s Guide to Going Halal, and is currently testing out new recipes for her next cookbook. M.K. lives in Virginia with her husband and two children, who are generally pretty happy to test out her culinary creations for her, and never seem to mind giving their honest opinions about them.
Check out her platform at http://mkjohnston81.hubpages.com/ .
RUMKI CHOWDHURY
Rumki was born in Bangladesh and raised in the Bronx, New York and Paterson, New Jersey.
At just the age of sixteen, she attained a paid internship at The Herald Newspaper and a workshop at The Record Newspaper in NJ. 'The Significance of Henna Artistry' in The Herald Newspaper was her first major publication. She was also the Editor-in-Chief of her high school newspaper at JFK High School in Paterson, NJ.
She went on to achieve a BA in English Writing from William Paterson University, but not before she interned at Simon and Schuster Inc. and was accepted to intern at W.W. Norton at the same time. She was also the Editor-in-Chief of The Beacon Newspaper at her WPUNJ.
After having graduated from WPUNJ, Rumki began working at Pearson Higher Education Publishing in NJ. She even released her debut novel, Her Feet Chime. After a few months, she began MA studies in English Literature at the Queen Mary University of London. While in London, she participated as one of the celebrity authors to read at 'The Big Read' in 2010, a successful attempt to break the world record for 'Most Children Reading with an Adult' when 3,234 children listened to readings of Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
After having achieved her MA, she attained a job as an English Teacher in Stockholm, Sweden. She lives with her husband and two daughters. She also works as a magazine journalist for Hayati Magazine.
Her debut YA novel, ´Her Feet Chime´ is the first and only Bangladeshi version of a Cinderella story written in English.
Her second novel, 'So Complicated,' is a romantic fiction that became the 2017 New York Book Festival honorable mention and the 2015 finalist for The Pacific Book Awards in the Humor Category.
´Unveiled,´ her first published collection of poetry with a purpose, will be released under Djarabi Kitabs Publishing in 2017.
For more details and updates on Rumki´s author life, visit www.rumki.com.
SHOOHADA KHANOM
Shoohada was born and raised in London U.K, where she spent the early years of her life surrounded by a large family and a broad network of friends. Leaving education at the age of 16, she found herself working full-time within a retail environment. By the age of 19, she became a member of the management team. Married at the age of 21, she had her first child at 23 resigning from work to embrace the joys of motherhood and her family life. Having a love for reading, made her lift up a pen to write her own stories. Now a mother of five, her time is spent nurturing her children. She has settled with her family in the East End of London and continues to devote her free time to reading and writing. She is an active member in her local community with a passion for supporting fundraising and charity events. She had her first picture book published in 2013 and hopes more will be published soon.
You can visit her website at https://shoohadakhanom.com/ .
SUSAN JONES
Susan Jones is a Muslim American wife, mother, teacher, home-schooler, writer, poet, and international cook. She was born in New Orleans, La. and raised in Houston, Tx. Susan reverted to Islam in the summer of 1999, when she was 29 years old. Afterwards, she moved to Dubai with her husband and daughter. She attended Islamic Hadith and Fiqh classes at Discover Islam with Dr. Bilal Philips. Susan, went on to open an Islamic bookstore and library in Sharjah, with consultation from Dr. Philips and in accordance with Al Qaf Dawah and Islamic Affairs in Dubai. Al Shamilah Books offered Islamic books in English from a wide range of scholars and publishers.
Growing up in the "The Bible Belt," and in a conservative Presbyterian church, Susan was greatly affected by the teachings of the Prophets and inclined towards learning "scripture." Therefore she has an in-depth knowledge of the Bible and has studied Ancient Hebrew and Palestinian Aramaic. She enjoys writing comparative religion essays that point out similarities between text in the Torah, Gospel, and The Holy Quran. She also writes poetry and is now trying her pen in the genre of Islamic children's stories.
Susan is a certified ESL/ TEFL teacher and has also taught English in the Middle East for over 15 years. She has taught both privately and at language centers for all ages and levels including IELTS/and TOEFL examination testing preparation. She home-schooled her oldest child for eight years and finds her greatest joy in being a wife and mother.
She blogs at https://mommywhoisallah.wordpress.com/ .
THERESA CORBIN
Theresa Corbin is a New Orleans native and Muslimah who converted in 2001 after many years of soul searching and religious study. She is a writer, editor, and graphic artist who focuses on themes of conversion to Islam, Islamophobia, women's issues, and bridging gaps between peoples of different faiths and cultures. She is a regular contributor for AboutIslam.net and Al Jumuah magazine. Her work has also been featured on CNN and the Washington Post, among others publications. Visit her blogging home, islamwich, where she discuss the intersection of culture and religion.
UMM JUWAYRIYAH
Umm Juwayriayh (Maryam A. Sullivan) is an indigenous Muslim American woman born and raised in Springfield, Massachusetts - the former home of Merriam Webster Dictionary, the birth place of basketball, and the birth place of Dr. Suess! Her love of writing developed early and landed her an internship at the Republican News Paper during her high school day. Her journalism pursuits led her to spoken word, then play-writing, and finally to creating Urban Islamic fiction with her debut novel, The Size of a Mustard Seed. Umm Juwayriyah is an alumna of Bay Path University for women in New England and Regis University in Denver, Colorado where she received her Master's of Arts with honors. Visit her at https://ummjuwayriyah.blogspot.com/.
DR. ZAHEERA JINA
Dr. Zaheera Jina holds a PhD in Mathematics Education from the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. She is also the co-editor and contributing author of the anthologies titled Riding the Samoosa Express: Personal Narratives of Marriage and Beyond and Saffron: A Collection of Personal Narratives by Muslim Women. Zaheera is the founder of the Jozi's Books and Blogs Festivities (Jozisbbf), a non profit organisation that projects to cultivate a culture of reading and writing in South Africa through various literary events. "Surprise!" is her first children's book published by Djarabi Kitabs Publishing. She lives in South Africa with her husband, two sons and many in-laws.
Check out her works at https://jozisbbf.com/ .
JAMEELA HO
Jameela Ho is a mother and teacher. She is also a PhD candidate researching cognition and learning. She holds a Diploma of Counselling and blogs on the subject of both education and parenting on two separate blogs.
ILMA Education (www.ilmaeducation) is where she helps parents nurture their children’s growing mind. Her other blog is Muslim Parenting (www.jameelaho.com) where she helps parents raise their children with the love of Islam.
IRNA FATHURRUBAYAH
Irna Fathurrubayah is a teacher, writer and blogger. She holds a Bachelor Degree in Mathematics Education where she started her career as an assistant teacher in an Elementary School which for her was the most meaningful experience in understanding children. She currently works as an elementary school teacher. Her interests are in the area of Brain science, Psychology and Digital Citizenship.
Besides teaching, she has just started her journey as a freelance writer and author. In her spare time she writes on her personal blog https://rubayahnote.wordpress.com/ and she is currently working on her Educational website Atfalna Education which will be launched soon.
WERONIKA OZPOLAT
Weronika trained as a Speech and Language Therapist at De Montfort University and then went on to do postgraduate research in autism and bilingualism at the University of Reading. Now she lives in the South West of England with her husband and homeschools their four young children.
Weronika shares information about her multicultural family life on her blog, Multicultural Motherhood, as well as her YouTube channel where she shares information about homeschooling, bilingualism and speech and language issues. She can also be found on social media.
NABILA IKRAM
Nabila Ikram obtained her B.A. in Education from the University of Michigan-Dearborn. She has worked in a number of educational settings, including the classroom and youth mentorship programs, and has conducted and presented research in multiculturalism and literacy.
After starting a family, Nabila’s professional interests took on a more personal feel as she observed her own children’s learning and development. Desiring to stay home with her children, she decided to focus her energy on developing Everlearning Everlasting with a stronger focus on learning as a natural lifelong journey and the importance of family wellness as a mainstay of a rich and valuable education.
AFSHAN MOHAMMED
Afshan Mohammed is 28 years old and lives in Houston, TX. She completed her undergraduate degree in Nutrition at University of Houston and then her Dietetic Internship, her Master’s degree in Nutrition at Texas Woman’s University. She worked at Texas Children’s Hospital for 4 years with children who have diabetes, until she recently had her baby daughter.
Her hobbies include volunteering, reading, taking long walks at the park, and traveling. She takes Islamic Courses in Houston with Sameera Institute.
HANNAH MORRIS
Hannah Morris is a mum of 5 aged between 5 months and 11 years. She is originally from the UK but currently residing in the Republic of Ireland. She holds Master’s degrees in both Psychological Science and Health Psychology. She has spent many years working in psychiatric hospitals and in residential care facilities for children and adolescence with emotional and behavioural difficulties. She is presently working as a lecturer in Psychology with the Islamic Online University.
Hannah has a passion for writing children’s books and is currently working on a series of books that aim to teach children skills such as mindfulness and stress management to nurture their psychological wellbeing through storytelling and supporting activities. She can be found at www.the5bankieteers.com where she presents information relating to these books and provides support for parents to learn the skills to work with their children in nurturing the skills taught in the books.
UMM AFRAZ MUHAMMED
Umm Afraz Muhammed is an Indian settled in the Emirates with her husband and three children. She is a Psychology-graduate, an Islamic Studies post-graduate, and a Certified Life Coach following the principles of Islam and the International Coaching Federation. She has authored her debut fiction, Here With You, and her debut children’s picture book, Zaynab bint Jahsh: The One with the Longest Hand.
She blogs at https://ummafraz.wordpress.com and is available in Instagram and Facebook at:
- @redefinedmuslimahcoaching.
She can also be contacted at:
- ummafraz@gmail.com or
- redefinedmuslimahcoaching@gmail.com
UMM MARWAN IBRAHIM
Umm Marwan Ibrahim is an Islamic writer, copy editor, and language enthusiast. She loves words, writing them, reading them, learning them, and sometimes, playing with them. What she enjoys most – a tad too mischievously – about words on paper (or the screen) is how easily they can be manipulated:
Write. And if there’s something wrong in the piece, no worries. Edit. Rinse and repeat.
She also loves all things Islamic. So, when her pleasure with words gets tied with her love for Islam, that’s when she knows she’s hit the bull’s eye!
Besides freelancing as writer/editor, Umm Marwan Ibrahim also lends her services as a counselor at nonprofit organizations like ArRajaa The Hope Counseling Service and Solace Islamic Assistance. She also has a background in teaching Islamic Studies to kids at Kalemah, besides other well-known institutes based in Dubai.
Visit her at https://ummarwanportfolio.wordpress.com.
SHUMAYSA AMATUL HADI FARUQI
Shumaysa Amatul Hadi Faruqi is a student of Al Quran and a qualified Special Educator and Psychologist with a Master’s degree from Jamia Millia Islamia. Her interests include reading, writing, researching and painting. She is an avid blogger and writes regularly at http://www.shumaysafaruqi.blogspot.com .
MISBAH AKHTAR
Misbah Akhtar is a blogger, author, activist and mother of 4. She was born and bred in London and her passions include: photography, eating Wispa bars and finding inventive ways to tease her kids. She has a background in Psychology and English Literature, and is currently working towards becoming a life coach. She is the founder of Single Muslim Mums and Editor-in-chief of Mumspiration: her own personal transformational journey. She loves horror and all things gory and even has a few horror tales of her own to tell! Check out her blogs at singlemuslimmums.wordpress.com and/or mumspiration.co.uk.
Writers of the NTBF Anthology not already mentioned above:
● Wardah Abbas
Wardah is a lawyer, writer and storyteller from Nigeria. She is the founding Editor of The Muslim Women Times and writes about gender, culture, equality and Islam ( www.themuslimwomentimes.com ) as well as a social justice activist who is especially passionate about the rights of Muslim women. She runs ‘The Mango Wordcraft,’” a storytelling company for individuals and businesses. You can see more of her work on Medium @Wardahabbas.
● Leila Aboulela
Leila was the first winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing. Her latest books include the novel Bird Summons and the short story collection Elsewhere, Home, winner of the Saltire Fiction Book of the Year. Leila’s work has received critical recognition and a high profile for its distinctive exploration of migration and Islamic spirituality. Her previous novels are The Kindness of Enemies, The Translator, a New York Times 100 Notable Books of the year, Minaret and Lyrics Alley. Leila was named Fiction Winner of the Scottish Book Awards and shortlisted for the Commonwealth Prize. Her work has been translated into fifteen languages and she was long-listed three times for the Orange Prize. Her plays The Insider, The Mystic Life and others were broadcast on BBC Radio and her work included in publications such as The Guardian, The Washington Post, Granta and Harper’s Magazine. Leila is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and Honorary President of the SSSUK-the Society for the Study of the Sudans. She was recently named Patron of Women’s Education Partnership, a charity funding educational projects in Sudan and South Sudan.
● Nadirah Ashim
Nadirah is a Nigerian medical student and speculative fiction writer. She is currently working on her debut novel. When she’s not studying or writing, Nadirah can be found scrolling through social media or consuming the books on an endless to-be-read shelf. You can find her on https://linktr.ee/fareedah
● Muti’ah Badruddeen
Muti’ah is a Nigerian author of contemporary Islamic fiction. An Obstetrician-Gynecologist and homeschooling mum, she struggles to write tales that reflect African Muslim realities during the early-morning hours. Her international debut novel, Rekiya & Z, is the 2021 Daybreak Press Book Award winner for Islamic Fiction, among others. She’s on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter - all @deenprogress - and can be contacted via www.deenprogress.com Muti’ah blogs sporadically at www.deenprogress.wordpess.com
● Reem Faruqi
Reem is the award-winning children’s book author of Lailah’s Lunchbox, a book based on her own experiences as a young Muslim girl immigrating to the United States, Amira’s Picture Day, I Can Help, and a middle-grade debut novel in verse, Unsettled. After surviving Atlanta traffic for school drop- off, Reem spends her days trying to write, instead getting distracted easily by her camera and the buttery sunlight. Reem Faruqi lives in Atlanta with her husband and three daughters. You can find her at www.ReemFaruqi.com or on Instagram or Twitter.
● Basheerah Jones
Basheerah is the pen name for a social justice lawyer who enjoys journaling and loves to travel even though she hasn’t done much of it. An aspiring writer, this anthology was her brain child and she hopes to write more in the future. A Muslimah who finds herself constantly struggling to please Her Rabb and parent her mini-Muslims, Basheerah wants to travel the world to see the beauty of Allah’s creation and homeschool her mini-Muslims someday.
● Hameedah Kehinde
Hameedah is a mum (of three kids), an English teacher, and Head of School in Abuja, Nigeria. She loves to read, hang out with family and close friends, sleep, eat, try new foods. and generally have a good time. Hameedah hopes to be a host for a Muslim radio show or a creator of cool, useful products for women and children. Or, in a perfect world, both. She enjoys meeting people.
● E A M Lymer
E.A.M. Lymer is a Home Educator, Theatre of the Oppressed Practitioner, and Student of Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP). She has written picture books for young children and is now drafting young adult fiction. She is on Instagram @EAMLymer .
● Afshan Malik
Afshan, a Chicago native turned southern belle, works as the Director of Development at Rabata. She is the author of the 2019 young adult novel Pieces and enjoys browsing bookshops, rolling rotis, and soaking up the Texas sun with her husband and five children. Afshan can be found on FB/IG @afshanmalikwrites, Twitter @afshan1009 and on her website www.afshanmalik.com
● Sarah Musa
Sarah is a children's book author of Ahmed and the Very Stuck Teapot. She hopes to write fiction for adult Muslims someday— books that truly represent Islam. She is a mother of six, from teenagers to toddlers. She loves farming and country life. She is on Instagram as @sarahmusawrites.
● Aisha Oredola
Aisha is a Nigerian Public Health Practitioner and Writer. Her work has been published in the African Writers Review, Bad Form Review x Literandra Issue 5: African History, Blue Minaret Literary Journal, and elsewhere. Find her on www.twitter.com/aish_dols and www.instagram.com/@aish.dols.
● Amina Oke
Amina is a Nigerian copywriter and creative non-fiction writer who helps online brands increase their revenue with email, and enjoys sharing her thoughts on spiritual development for Muslims. She can be found on Instagram @amina.oke.
● Gina Petonito
Gina is a writing mentor and coach; founding member of Writing Your Way, a full-service writing mentoring business. She assists with resumes, cover letters, college essays, fiction, non-fiction and classroom papers and projects. As the founding member of Academic Women Reclaim Your Power, she helps academic women weather current job market precarity by coaching them to start their own side businesses to achieve financial security. Dr. Petonito is currently editing her historical fiction novel Coming Home, which explores the human impact of gentrification and redevelopment.
● Tayyaba Syed
Tayyaba is the multiple award-winning children's author of The Blessed Bananas and Hafsa’s Kisses. She has written for over 20 titles including Encyclopedia Britannica and the Jannah Jewels chapter-book series. A journalist who has had bylines in publications such as NPR, Chicago Parent and Islamic Horizons, she is an active volunteer for Rabata, teaches writing to communities, leads a local women’s halaqa, and has worked as the Creative Developer for Noor Kids educational books. As a public speaker, she has conducted 100+ literary and faith-based presentations from all over North America to Qatar and Turkey. Tayyaba holds a Teacher Certification through the Ribaat Academic Institute and is an elected member of her local public school district’s Board of Education. She lives with her husband and three children in Illinois.
● Tumkeen
Tumkeen is an award-winning and bestselling Canadian author, writer, and poet who lives in Detroit, USA with her husband and six children. After the international success of her first book Breathe: Reflections & Poetry from the 2020 Lockdown, Tumkeen is currently working on a memoir.