Tag: Muslim Heroine

  • Brand New Novel Challenges Stereotypes by Featuring a Muslim Heroine

    WASHINGTON, D.C. — At the peak of a highly controversial election year, a new thriller for young-adults has recently been published featuring a teenaged Muslim girl as the protagonist. “The Storyteller and the Terrorist in Our Newsfeeds,” by Amina Derbi, is about the rise and fall of seventeen-year-old Najmah Qamar, a passionate storyteller who ends…