Courting Samira by Amal Awad book jacket

HarperVia

9780063317673

STARRED REVIEW

Courting Samira

Amal Awad’s Courting Samira might be best described as an Australian Muslim Bridget Jones.

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Review of ‘Courting Samira’

Samira Abdel-Aziz might be in want of a husband but she’s definitely not in want of suitors, having received a slew of what she calls “doorknock appeals” arranged by her traditional Muslim family. But finding one with actual appeal—one who isn’t too “fundy” or too secular, too stylized (she nicknames an excessively…

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