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Fatima Bala

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Fatima Bala is a lecturer, poet, and writer who lives in Canada with her family and a pet fish named Fishy. Her books have received starred reviews from The Los Angeles Tribune, London Post, and New York Weekly. She graduated from Algonquin College, Vancouver Island University, and Stanford, where she studied Tourism, Business Management, and International Women's Rights. She loves traveling, playing board games, and watching movies with unanticipated twists.

Her Instagram account is @aka.fatima.bala
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Average rating: 4.11 · 3,469 ratings · 761 reviews · 3 distinct worksSimilar authors
Broken. Not a halal love story

4.06 avg rating — 2,737 ratings — published 2023 — 2 editions
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4.30 avg rating — 696 ratings — published 2023 — 3 editions
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Before the Origin

4.39 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 2020 — 3 editions
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“Broken into fragments, Heartbeats - counted, limited. Yet, I’d give all the beats I have left
to hear my name escape your lips again. Ours is a togetherness that honors the beauty of our solitude.”
Fatima Bala, Broken. Not a halal love story

“Some words are like a debt - until you say them you are never truly free.”
F.S. Bala, Before the Origin

“Ki yi a hankali - Be careful.”
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“Ki yi a hankali - Be careful.”
F.S. Bala

“Some words are like a debt - until you say them you are never truly free.”
F.S. Bala, Before the Origin

“Spoken words had more weight than those that lay dormant as thoughts”
F.S. Bala, Before the Origin

“Broken into fragments, Heartbeats - counted, limited. Yet, I’d give all the beats I have left
to hear my name escape your lips again. Ours is a togetherness that honors the beauty of our solitude.”
Fatima Bala, Broken. Not a halal love story

“If everything is preordained, then isn’t the choice we made that day part of our fate? Is free will not part of an already written script that we unknowingly act out even in our rebellion?”
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