#Zeba

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(via Zeba Bakhtiar Spouse - Chahra)  Zeba’s marital journey has seen four chapters. Her initial union was with Salman Galliani in 1982. Subsequently, in 1989, she entered into matrimony with Javed Jaffrey, initially refuting such claims until Javed presented a Nikah Nama, leading to their divorce within a year. Her next high-profile relationship was with renowned singer and music composer Adnan Sami, which began in 1993 but concluded in 1997. Their union also brought forth a son, Azaan Sami Khan. In 2008, Zeba embarked on a new chapter in her life by marrying Sohail Khan Leghari.

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Limited-time merch: Anniversary Zeba Design | Available until Dec 15th

The Metal is running his 5th Anniversary design of our mascot, Zeba, on merch over on Spring. The design is available on shirts, hoodies, blankets, stickers, and glasses/mugs until the 15th of December and then he is nuking it. We’ll probably run other limited-time designs in the future, so don’t miss out on the ones you like when they are available.

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Chinese hackers stole emails from US State Dept in Microsoft breach, Senate staffer says

By Raphael Satter and Zeba Siddiqui WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Chinese hackers who breached Microsoft’s email platform this year managed to steal tens of thousands of emails from U.S. State Department accounts, a Senate staffer told Reuters on Wednesday. The staffer, who attended a briefing by State Department IT officials, said the officials told lawmakers that 60,000 emails were stolen from 10 State…

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i finished strange the dreamer so now i am wondering if minya is not villainized in the second part bc that child had to do shit that would be hard for an adult let alone a six year old and the fact that she kept all of them alive by her sheer will and spite i mean-

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I know what this things is.

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February JOMP Day 6 - Red Books ❤️

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There’s a subtlety to transphobia that we don’t see, because we’re not meant to see it. That subtly lies with making transphobic stereotypes so pervasive that they go unquestioned, unchallenged, undiscussed.

So when trans and gender-nonconforming people call out these stereotypes, we should listen. Just because something is a common trope doesn’t mean it isn’t harmful, complicated and worthy of critique.

— Zeba Blay

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~ books read in 2023 ~

#23: Midnight Strikes by Zeba Shahnaz

One night. You just have to survive here one more night.

Rating: 4/5

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(New Young Adult Releases Coming Out Today! (March 14th, 2023)

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Have I missed any new Young Adult releases? Have you added any of these books to your TBR? Let me know!

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New Standalones/First in a Series:

The Renaissance of Gwen Hathaway by Ashley Schumacher

Enter the Body by Joy McCullough

I Will Find You Again by Sarah Lyu

The Memory Eater by Rebecca Mahoney

A Long Stretch of Bad Days by Mindy McGinnis

Dear Medusa by Olivia A. Cole

The Next New Syrian Girl by Ream Shukairy

Ravensong by Cayla Fay

Flowerheart by Catherine Bakewell

Whistleblower by Kate Marchant

Enhanced by Candace Kade 

Climate Champions by Rachel Sarah 

Different for Boys by Patrick Ness

Midnight Strikes by Zeba Shahnaz

Stateless by Elizabeth Wein

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Happy reading!

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Midnight Strikes || Zeba Shahnaz || 448 pages Top 3 Genres: Fantasy / Young Adult / Romance

Synopsis: Seventeen-year-old Anaïs just wants tonight to end. As an outsider at the kingdom’s glittering anniversary ball, she has no desire to rub shoulders with the nation’s most eligible (and pompous) bachelors—especially not the notoriously roguish Prince Leo. But at the stroke of midnight, an explosion rips through the palace, killing everyone in its path. Including her.

The last thing Anaïs sees is fire, smoke, chaos . . . and then she wakes up in her bedroom, hours before the ball. No one else remembers the deadly attack or believes her warnings of disaster.

Not even when it happens again. And again. And again.

If she’s going to escape this nightmarish time loop, Anaïs must take control of her own fate and stop the attack before it happens. But the court's gilded surface belies a rotten core, full of restless nobles grabbing at power, discontented commoners itching for revolution, and even royals who secretly dream of taking the throne. It's up to Anaïs to untangle these knots of deadly deceptions . . . if she can survive past midnight.

Publication Date: March 2023. / Average Rating: 3.73. / Number of Ratings: ~550.

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Midnight Stikes by Zeba Shahnaz (owlcrate edition)

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Title: Midnight Strikes Author: Zeba Shahnaz Genres: Fantasy, Mystery, Romance Pages: 448 Publisher: Delacorte Press Review Copy: Received eARC via NetGalley Availability: Available now

Summary: Seventeen-year-old Anaïs just wants tonight to end. As an outsider at the kingdom’s glittering anniversary ball, she has no desire to rub shoulders with the nation’s most eligible (and pompous) bachelors—especially not the notoriously roguish Prince Leo. But at the stroke of midnight, an explosion rips through the palace, killing everyone in its path. Including her.

The last thing Anaïs sees is fire, smoke, chaos . . . and then she wakes up in her bedroom, hours before the ball. No one else remembers the deadly attack or believes her warnings of disaster.

Not even when it happens again. And again. And again.

If she’s going to escape this nightmarish time loop, Anaïs must take control of her own fate and stop the attack before it happens. But the court's gilded surface belies a rotten core, full of restless nobles grabbing at power, discontented commoners itching for revolution, and even royals who secretly dream of taking the throne. It's up to Anaïs to untangle these knots of deadly deceptions . . . if she can survive past midnight.

Review: [MIDNIGHT STRIKES is a time loop book, so there is a lot of violence and death for basically everyone, including references to Anaïs intentionally dying to reset the loop or requesting others kill her. Racism and colonialism are frequent topics as well.]

MIDNIGHT STRIKES is an immensely satisfying read. I love time loop plots but am also pretty picky about them—it takes a deft hand to keep the iterations of a time loop from getting boring or too predictable. Author Zeba Shahnaz did a fantastic job of deciding what to repeat, what to gloss over, and what to advance each time Anaïs woke up and had a new chance to figure out what was going on. It certainly helps that there is a lot that Anaïs needs to figure out, including why she’s even caught in the time loop in the first place. Anaïs would track down one plot thread, find out new information, recontextualize previous events, and then use that to follow a different thread further down its track. MIDNIGHT STRIKES is a truly well-crafted story in that regard.

And of course, what makes plot even better are great characters. Anaïs is an interesting narrator, and I appreciated her complexity. Being unhappy about the necessity of a political marriage is a fairly standard trope, but the layers Shahnaz added on to that really deepened both Anaïs’s character and the world building. I also appreciated that Anaïs wasn’t always positive and hopeful about being able to end the time loop—she had her rage and hopelessness and denial time loops, more than once. She did terrible things, often multiple times, and those decisions haunted her across the loops. I loved it.

The information Anaïs gets from each loop and the decisions she makes help her dig deeper into the people around her, which allowed some characters to gain depth instead of remaining shallow extras repeating the same things endlessly. Prince Leo is the most notable example, of course, and I found myself really enjoying the way Anaïs’s relationship with him changed over the course of the book. Due to the shortness of the loop and the limited locations, the number of characters who could gain depth was limited, but it still made for some very fun and satisfying character interactions in conjunction with the world building and mystery solving.

Recommendation: Get it now, especially if you’re a fan of time loops. MIDNIGHT STRIKES takes the grand spectacle of a ball and turns it into a nightmare, and then traps our main character there. Author Zeba Shahnaz did a fantastic job of varying the time loops and allowing Anaïs to claw her way towards answers regarding the explosion and why she was caught in the loop. I had such a fun time reading it and was immensely satisfied by how the story concluded.

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ive been eating up Midnight Strikes by Zeba Shahnaz almost all day today this book has been so intriguing. and then to find out this is a debut novel blows my mind it's so well written and has me turning the page wanting more.

and then i find a listing of the beautiful Owlcrate special edition on pangobooks like YES, GIVE ME PLEASE

for those curious, imagine if instead of Cinderella's carriage turning into a pumpkin at midnight, the grand ball is attacked by armed intruders and explosions and everybody dies, with the added fact that Cinderella wakes up from dying at the ball in a Groundhogs Day time loop that she's the only one to remember. that's Midnight Strikes in it's most basic summary, but there's so much more.

the main character is also so realistic in like her reactions and stuff to having to repeat this deadly ball, and you can't help but root for her because she's also like an outsider at the ball so no one would even believe her if they wanted too. so there's a lot of intersectionality to the obstacles in her way of figuring out what the fuck is going on and why SHE'S the one stuck with this burden. and it's just so realistic. i love Anais so much.

i'm like a third of the way in, so here's hoping it sticks the landing by the end!🤞

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Title: Midnight Strikes

Author: Zeba Shahnaz

Series or standalone: standalone

Publication year: 2023

Genres: fiction, fantasy, romance, science fiction, retelling, mystery

Blurb: 17-year-old Anaïs just wants tonight to end. As an outsider at the kingdom’s glittering anniversary ball, she has no desire to rub shoulders with the nation’s most eligible (and pompous) bachelors, especially not the notoriously roguish Prince Leo...but at the stroke of midnight, an explosion rips through the palace, killing everyone in its path, including her. The last thing Anaïs sees is fire, smoke, chaos...and then she wakes up in her bedroom, hours before the ball. No one else remembers the deadly attack, or believes her warnings of disaster...not even when it happens again...and again...and again. If she’s going to escape this nightmarish time loop, Anaïs must take control of her own fate and stop the attack before it happens...but the court’s gilded surface belies a rotten core full of restless nobles grabbing at power, discontented commoners itching for revolution, and even royals who secretly dream of taking the throne. It’s up to Anaïs to untangle these knots of deadly deceptions...if she can survive past midnight.