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Huda Al-Marashi
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Once Upon an Eid
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2020
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Grounded: A Novel
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2023
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First Comes Marriage: My Not-So-Typical American Love Story
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2018
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Becoming: What Makes a Woman
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2012
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Spinning Toward the Sun: Essays on Writing, Resilience, & the Creative Life
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Hail Mariam
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2026
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Grounded
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The Myth of a Shared Life
I had the moment my future husband would see me in my wedding dress all planned out. Although it wasn’t necessarily a Middle Eastern tradition, he’d be waiting for me at the end of an aisle. I’d walk in with my father, and upon seeing me in all my bridal glory, he had had one of the following options: a) cry with manly restraint b) open his mouth wide with surprise before breaking into a smile of
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“I'm asking you if you'll spend the rest of your life with me.”
I stared down at my still-warm hand. Hadi's touch had been more remarkable than the question I'd spent night after night imagining. Those words did not slow time or cause music to erupt from the walls. They did not make fireworks burst from the sky or conjure up a crowd hooting congratulatory cheer.
I didn't want to accept that such life-changing words could feel so ordinary, that this moment I'd been waiting for my entire life could already be over with such little ceremony.
“Yes,” I said and then added, “But this doesn't count, okay? You still have to ask me for real.”
― First Comes Marriage: My Not-So-Typical American Love Story
I stared down at my still-warm hand. Hadi's touch had been more remarkable than the question I'd spent night after night imagining. Those words did not slow time or cause music to erupt from the walls. They did not make fireworks burst from the sky or conjure up a crowd hooting congratulatory cheer.
I didn't want to accept that such life-changing words could feel so ordinary, that this moment I'd been waiting for my entire life could already be over with such little ceremony.
“Yes,” I said and then added, “But this doesn't count, okay? You still have to ask me for real.”
― First Comes Marriage: My Not-So-Typical American Love Story
“Our Iraq was the one that lived on in our parents’ memories, frozen at the moment of their 1970s departure, immune to time.”
― First Comes Marriage: My Not-So-Typical American Love Story
― First Comes Marriage: My Not-So-Typical American Love Story
“Maybe Mama was right, and you could learn to love someone. Maybe knowing a guy loved you was enough to flip the switch in your heart that made you love him back.”
― First Comes Marriage: My Not-So-Typical American Love Story
― First Comes Marriage: My Not-So-Typical American Love Story
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