Simon & Schuster’s Salaam Reads publishes Muslim children’s book
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Recently published book “Yo Soy Muslim: A father’s minute to his daughter” by Salaam Reads – an beginning of publisher Simon Schuster focusing on Muslim-based design section books, is addressed to immature Muslims flourishing adult in a age of Islamophobia and xenophobia.
Mark Gonzalez, a Mexican-American author and poet, authored a 32-page design book with illustrations by Mehrdokht Amini, dedicated it to his real-life daughter, Sirat.
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“Dear small one,” he writes. “… know we are wondrous, / A child of crescent moons, / a builder of mosques, / a successor of brilliance, / an forerunner in training…”
A Muslim, Latino, Tunisian and American – Gonzalez encompasses mixed heritages. While a timing of a book might seem like a greeting to a Trump administration, a author insists it is “reclamation of identity.”
“This was created before. [Trump’s] got some-more than adequate press and broadside and has been given approach some-more courtesy than he should be given during this impulse anyway. we exclude to let him be in a core of my daughter’s narrative,” pronounced Gonzales.
Inspired by 1969 poem “Yo Soy Joaquin” by a Chicano fighter and domestic romantic Rodolfo Corky Gonzales, Yo Soy Muslim addresses a immature Muslims of America. “How does one navigate a universe in that we come out of a womb and we have an knowledge of love… around relatives who give we love, though afterwards you’re in a multitude that mostly sends we signals that maybe we aren’t desired here, and maybe we aren’t acquire here?” asks Gonzales.
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“Yo soy Muslim, Our prayers were here / before any borders were,” reads a poem. Growing adult Gonzales says he was around though never saw himself in stories. “It’s what we call a account of invisibility or a account of demonisation.”
“‘Where are we from?’ is mostly a pass question, and what’s engaging about that doubt is that we answer it and somehow a chairman who’s seeking it feels they mostly have a right to halt your answer,” says Gonzales. “‘Where is home?’ is a good question, distant some-more talented to me than “where are we from?’”
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