Maya’s Indian Muslim parents expect her to adhere to their traditions when it comes to education and marriage-something Maya is battling against. She wants proof.”Īhmed’s first teenage protagonist, Maya Aziz in Love, Hate & Other Filters, is American born, unlike the author, who was born in Bombay and brought to the United States as a toddler. “She’s smart, she’s a skeptic, and she’s not willing to take what adults say at face value, even when she’s in a difficult position. “Amira is a revolutionary girl, like my teenage protagonists,” Ahmed says. Fantasy tells a truth about the world we live in.”Īmira & Hamza follows the story of contemporary 12-year-old Amira and her younger brother, who suddenly find themselves in the mystical land of Qaf, tasked with stopping the moon from breaking apart and evil creatures from swarming throughout the world, bent on its destruction. While it may seem like a change, she says the book “is not really a departure for me. Her newest book, Amira & Hamza: The War to Save the Worlds (Little, Brown, Sept.), though, is a middle grade fantasy. Since the publication of her debut novel, Love, Hate & Other Filters, in 2018, Samira Ahmed has become known for her YA fiction featuring strong, smart, and passionate Muslim American teenage girls.
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