Honor God

So proud to know Willow. Looking forward to this book.  ‘Granddad, There’s a Head on the Beach’ and Other Summer Reads – NYTimes.com. But this year’s improbably charming book about hackers is “Alif the Unseen,” a novel prompted by its author’s frustration. G. Willow Wilson, admired for her graphic novels and memoir, says that she was sick of treating her readers as separate factions (“comic-book geeks, literary NPR types and Muslims”) and sick of assumptions that blogging and social media could not have political consequences.  So she conjured Alif, a young Arab-Indian hacker living in an unnamed Middle Eastern high-security…

While not strictly Muslim related, there is enough overlap in the ethnic and religious categories to make it worth posting. SPEAK OUT! : CALL FOR FILMS: SOUTH ASIANS, ARABS AND THE STATE OF THE UNION Many Voices. One Democracy. Our Responsibility. SOUTH ASIANS, ARABS AND THE STATE OF THE UNION 3rd I NY and Breakthrough, invite film and video submissions from all filmmakers of South Asian and Arab descent for the Speak Out! Festival, a film and video festival which explores themes of health care, education, immigration, campaign finance, terrorism, foreign policy and other issues directly related to the November…