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name: Sabeeha Rehman
about: Sabeeha Rehman, an author, blogger and speaker on the American Muslim experience. Her new book is titled, 'It's Not What You Think. An American Woman in Saudi Arabia,' published in 2022. She has co-authored with Walter Ruby of the book: We Refuse to be Enemies. How Muslims and Jews Can Make Peace, One Friendship at a Time. It was published in April 2021. She is the author of the memoir 'Threading My Prayer Rug', an account of growing up in Pakistan, her rushed arranged marriage to a Pakistani doctor and their lives together raising a Muslim family in New York City.Short-listed for the 2018 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing, Threading My Prayer Rug also won Booklist and San Francisco Book Festival honors. Readers Digest mention Sabeeha Rehman, an author, blogger and speaker on the American Muslim experience. Her new book is titled, 'It's Not What You Think. An American Woman in Saudi Arabia,' published in 2022. She has co-authored with Walter Ruby of the book: We Refuse to be Enemies. How Muslims and Jews Can Make Peace, One Friendship at a Time. It was published in April 2021. She is the author of the memoir 'Threading My Prayer Rug', an account of growing up in Pakistan, her rushed arranged marriage to a Pakistani doctor and their lives together raising a Muslim family in New York City.Short-listed for the 2018 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing, Threading My Prayer Rug also won Booklist and San Francisco Book Festival honors. Readers Digest mentioned it as one of '35 Memoirs Everyone Should Read.' ...more