Muslim Women Are Everything: StereotypeShattering Stories of Courage, Inspiration, and Adventure

Winner of the 2021 International Book AwardsWinner of American Book Fests 2020 Best Book Awards in Womens IssuesA fullcolor illustrated collection of riveting, inspiring, and stereotypeshattering stories that reveal the beauty, diversity, and strength of Muslim women both past and present.Tired of seeing Muslim women portrayed as weak, sheltered, and limited, journalist Seema Yasmin reframes how the world sees them, to reveal everything they CAN do and the incredible, stereotypeshattering ways they are doing it.Featuring 40 fullcolor illustrations by illustrator Fahmida Azim throughout, Muslim Women Are Everything is a celebration of the ways in which past and present Muslim women from around the world are singing, dancing, reading, writing, laughing, experimenting, driving, and rocking their way into the history books.Forget subservient, oppressed damselssay hello to women who are breaking down barriers using their art, their voices, and their activism, including: Tesnim Sayar from Denmark, a Muslim gothpunk who wears a red tartan mohawk on top of her hijab American superstar singer SZA Nura Afia, CoverGirls first hijabi ambassador Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, Americas first Muslim congresswomen Ilyana Insyirah, a hijaabwearing scubadiving midwife from AustraliaShowcasing women who defy categorization, Muslim Women Are Everything proves that to be Muslim and a woman is to be many things: strong, vulnerable, trans, disabled, funny, entrepreneurial, burqa or bikini clad, and so much more.