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Huda Al-Marashi

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Huda Al-Marashi writes for both children and adults. She is the author of the forthcoming middle grade novel, Hail Mariam, and the coauthor of Grounded, which won the Walter Dean Myers Honor award. She also wrote the memoir First Comes Marriage: My Not-So-Typical American Love Story and has had essays and op-eds featured in various anthologies and news outlets, such as the New York Times, Washington Post, LA Times, and al Jazeera. She is a fellow and mentor with the Highlights Foundation Muslim Storytellers Program, and she lives in San Diego, California with her husband and three children. Visit her at www.hudaalmarashi.com.
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	Once Upon an Eid by S.K. Ali (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Aisha Saeed (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Randa Abdel-Fattah 4.21 avg rating — 4,819 ratings — published 2020 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Grounded: A Novel by Aisha Saeed (Goodreads Author), Huda Al-Marashi (Goodreads Author), Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow (Goodreads Author) 3.98 avg rating — 956 ratings — published 2023 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	First Comes Marriage: My Not-So-Typical American Love Story 3.63 avg rating — 981 ratings — published 2018 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Becoming: What Makes a Woman by Jill McCabe Johnson (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Sibyl James (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Marilyn Bates (Contributor) 4.70 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hail Mariam 4.18 avg rating — 11 ratings — expected publication 2026 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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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 Read more of this blog post »

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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.”
― Huda Al-Marashi, First Comes Marriage: My Not-So-Typical American Love Story

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“Our Iraq was the one that lived on in our parents’ memories, frozen at the moment of their 1970s departure, immune to time.”
― Huda Al-Marashi, First Comes Marriage: My Not-So-Typical American Love Story

tags: religious-beliefs, social-constructs

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“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.”
― Huda Al-Marashi, First Comes Marriage: My Not-So-Typical American Love Story

tags: love

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