#syed masood

[josephgraham]

What exactly is your problem eh? 'Cause this isn't just about religion, is it? EASTENDERS | 19.06.2009

[doyelikehaggis]

I'd love Christian and Syed to come back but only as a part of a whole Masood revival. Masood, Zainab, Christian, Syed and the kids would be literally perfect. It would be so good especially with Clenshaw in charge now! It would also be cool to have a middle-aged gay couple who have been together forever and are parents, EE have never really done that before.

This is genuinely exactly what I want. And, you know, while we're at it, bring Jane back. Not only because we'd have Christian, her brother, but also for Bobby. God knows he could use her on his side along with Kathy right now. (And I will never be over the Masood/Jane affair...)

Clenshaw could give us everything. We have three men and a baby going on over in Ballum's flat but give us back our OG's as well. I miss them :(

[hrtiu]

I just read More Than Just a Pretty Face, by Syed M. Masood, and I really really liked it. It's nothing serious or earth-shattering; just a culturally-specific YA romcom. But I really appreciated the way religion was incorporated into the story.

The book is about a Muslim teenage boy named Danyal in the Bay Area of California, and his eventual romance with a girl his parents arranged for him to meet. Aside from being an adorable himbo, I really appreciated Danyal's relationship with his faith. Danyal isn't preoccupied with thoughts about his religion, but it's definitely important to him, and depicted as a positive part of his life. At the same time, the story is not entirely uncritical of religious zealotry, or of the negative culture that can build up around religious communities. Though at times critical, the book still depicts religion in an overall positive light. I really appreciated this nuanced approach.

As an example, one of Danyal's friends is much more Orthodox than the other, and the other friend doesn't want to be involved with Islam at all any more. Because of this, a rift grows between his friends and Danyal has to struggle to keep them together. I loved the way he bridges the gap between his two friends and how he refuses to judge either of them.

I'm not Muslim but as a person whose faith is important to me and a big part of my life, I really enjoyed this book. It was also just a cute love story 🥰

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🌙 Ramadan Mubarak - Books ft. Muslims

🦇 Good morning, my beautiful bookish bats. To celebrate this Islamic holy month, here are a FEW books featuring Muslim characters. I hope you consider adding a few to your TBR.

❓What was the last book you read that taught you something new OR what's at the top of your TBR?

🌙 A Woman is No Man - Etaf Rum 🌙 Amal Unbound - Aisha Saeed 🌙 Love From A to Z - S.K. Ali 🌙 Hana Khan Carries On - Uzma Jalaluddin 🌙 Yes No Maybe So - Becky Albertalli and Aisha Saeed 🌙 Evil Eye - Etaf Rum 🌙 I Am Malala - Malala Yousafzai 🌙 Exit West - Mohsin Hamid 🌙 Written in the Stars - Aisha Saeed 🌙 The Night Diary - Veera Hiranandani 🌙 Much Ado About Nada - Uzma Jalaluddin 🌙 The Eid Gift - S.K. Ali 🌙 More Than Just a Pretty Face - Syed M. Masood 🌙 Yusuf Azeem Is Not a Hero - Saadia Faruqi 🌙 If You Could Be Mine by Sara Farizan 🌙 Snow - Orhan Pamuk 🌙 Sofia Khan Is Not Obliged - Ayisha Malik 🌙 The Proudest Blue by Ibtihaj Muhammad 🌙 And I Darken - Kiersten White 🌙 The Last White Man - Mohsin Hamid

🌙 Hijab Butch Blues - Lamya H 🌙 The Bad Muslim Discount - Syed M. Masood 🌙 Ms. Marvel - G. Willow Wilson 🌙 Love from Mecca to Medina - S.K. Ali 🌙 The City of Brass - S.A. Chakraborty 🌙 The Love Match by Priyanka Taslim 🌙 A Map of Home by Randa Jarrar 🌙 A Very Large Expanse of Sea by Tahereh Mafi 🌙 An Emotion of Great Delight by Tahereh Mafi 🌙 The Love and Lies of Rukhsana Ali by Sabina Khan 🌙 The Moor’s Account - Laila Lalami 🌙 Only This Beautiful Moment by Abdi Nazemian 🌙 Salt Houses by Hala Alyan 🌙 When a Brown Girl Flees by Aamna Quershi 🌙 Jasmine Falling by Shereen Malherbe 🌙 Between Two Moons by Aisha Abdel Gawad 🌙 Sea Prayer by Khaled Hosseini 🌙 A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini 🌙 The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini 🌙 Unmarriageable by Soniah Kamal

🌙 Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie 🌙 All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir 🌙 The Bohemians by Jasmin Darznik 🌙 Ayesha at Last by Uzma Jalaluddin 🌙 A Case of Exploding Mangoes by Mohammed Hanif 🌙 Chronicle of a Last Summer by Yasmine El Rashidi 🌙 A Girl Like That by Tanaz Bhathena 🌙 Other Words for Home by Jasmine Warga 🌙 The Mismatch by Sara Jafari 🌙 Does My Head Look Big In This? by Randa Abdel-Fattah 🌙 You Truly Assumed by Laila Sabreen 🌙 Saints and Misfits by S.K. Ali 🌙 Once Upon an Eid - S.K. Ali and Aisha Saeed 🌙 Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel by Sara Farizan 🌙 Alif the Unseen by G. Willow Wilson 🌙 The Henna Wars by Adiba Jaigirdar 🌙 A Show for Two by Tashie Bhuiyan 🌙 Nayra and the Djinn by Michael Berry 🌙 All-American Muslim Girl by Lucinda Dyer 🌙 It All Comes Back to You by Farah Naz Rishi

🌙 The Marvelous Mirza Girls by Sheba Karim 🌙 Salaam, with Love by Sara Sharaf Beg 🌙 Queen of the Tiles by Hanna Alkaf 🌙 How It All Blew Up by Arvin Ahmadi 🌙 Zara Hossain Is Here by Sabina Khan 🌙 Punching the Air by Ibi Zoboi & Yusef Salaam 🌙 She Wore Red Trainers by Na'ima B. Robert 🌙 Hollow Fires by Lucinda Dyer 🌙 Internment by Samira Ahmed 🌙 Against the Loveless World by Susan Abulhawa 🌙 Love in a Headscarf - Shelina Zahra Janmohamed 🌙 Courting Samira by Amal Awad 🌙 The Other Half of Happiness by Ayisha Malik 🌙 Huda F Are You? by Huda Fahmy 🌙 Love, Hate & Other Filters by Samira Ahmed 🌙 Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know by Samira Ahmed 🌙 Muslim Girls Rise - Saira Mir and Aaliya Jaleel 🌙 Amira & Hamza - Samira Ahmed 🌙 The Weight of Our Sky by Hanna Alkaf 🌙 Nura and the Immortal Palace by M.T. Khan

🌙 As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow by Zoulfa Katouh 🌙 Counting Down with You by Tashie Bhuiyan 🌙 Zachary Ying and the Dragon Emperor by Xiran Jay Zhao 🌙 The Yard - Aliyyah Eniath 🌙 When We Were Sisters by Fatimah Asghar 🌙 The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty 🌙 Maya's Laws of Love by Alina Khawaja 🌙 The Chai Factor by Farah Heron 🌙 The Beauty of Your Face - Sahar Mustafah 🌙 Hope Ablaze by Sarah Mughal Rana

[thatfilmgurl]

today i want to talk about a book from another one of my favorite authors, e.m. forster. i first picked up one of his books years ago for $2.00 at a used book store. the book was called a room with a view, and i absolutely adored it. forster has 3 other complete novels, howard’s end, a passage to india, and maurice. while i highly recommend all of these, today i’d like to talk about maurice.

maurice was finished in 1914, but it didn’t see the light of day until 1971 after forster had passed away. his reason for keeping the book secret, is that it was about a romantic relationship between two men. obviously, at the time in england where forster resided, being a homosexual was illegal. even after it was decriminalized, it could still ruin someone’s life if it ever got out. forster himself was gay, and wrote this book about a man he tutored in latin during college by the name of syed ross masood. unfortunately, it was a case of unrequited love, and there are many interesting parallels between their relationship and the plot of maurice.

maurice hall, our main protagonist, was at his first year of college. he met clive durham through a mutual friend, and the two became best friends instantly. clive, who had already figured out his sexuality, came to realize he loved maurice. clive confessed, and at first maurice was confused and told clive that he had been mistaken, and that he wasn’t really in love with him. maurice soon realized that he had feelings for clive as well, and the two began to have a secret affair. their relationship was a beautiful thing, as when they were together, it seemed as if they were off in their own world, where they weren’t deemed “illegal”. their relationship has their ups and downs, but i’ll end my description of the novel here as to not spoil anything.

what is so truly breathtaking about this book, is that it’s so raw and real. due to the nature of the book, it can be assumed forster never intended this book to ever be published, or even read by another person. he wrote it in 1914, and it was his own little secret for over half a century until he passed. something about how the book and the author had such an intimate relationship makes it a truly breathtaking read. it also offers insight to the life of a gay man during this time period.

there was also a movie made in 1987, and if you aren’t a fan of older books, definitely give it a watch. while there are a few discrepancies between the book and the movie, it does a wonderful job capturing the characters. (the screen shots in the post are from the movie)

thank you so much for reading! and i hope you check out e.m. forster ! :)

[rockislandadultreads]

More Book Club Recommendations: Immigrant Experiences

Brown Girls by Daphne Palasi Andreades

This remarkable story brings you deep into the lives of a group of friends--young women of color growing up in Queens, New York City's most vibrant and eclectic borough. Here, streets echo with languages from all over the globe, subways rumble above dollar stores, trees bloom and topple across sidewalks, and the briny scent of the ocean wafts from Rockaway Beach. Here, girls like Nadira, Gabby, Naz, Trish, Angelique, and many others, attempt to reconcile their immigrant backgrounds with the American culture they come of age in. Here, they become friends for life--or so they vow.

Exuberant and wild, they sing Mariah Carey at the tops of their lungs and roam the streets of The City That Never Sleeps, pine for crushes who pay them no mind--and break the hearts of those who do--all the while trying to heed their mothers' commands to be dutiful daughters, obedient young women. As they age, however, their paths diverge and rifts form between them, as some choose to remain on familiar streets, while others find themselves ascending in the world, drawn to the allure of other skylines, careers, and lovers, beckoned by existences foreign and seemingly at odds with their humble roots.

In musical, evocative prose, Brown Girls illustrates a collective portrait of childhood, motherhood, and beyond, and is an unflinching exploration of race, class, and marginalization in America. It is an account of the forces that bind friends to one another, their families, and communities, and is a powerful depiction of women of color attempting to forge their place in the world.

Speak No Evil by Uzodinma Iweala

On the surface, Niru leads a charmed life. Raised by two attentive parents in Washington, D.C., he’s a top student and a track star at his prestigious private high school. Bound for Harvard in the fall, his prospects are bright. But Niru has a painful secret: he is queer—an abominable sin to his conservative Nigerian parents. No one knows except Meredith, his best friend, the daughter of prominent Washington insiders—and the one person who seems not to judge him.

When his father accidentally discovers Niru is gay, the fallout is brutal and swift. Coping with troubles of her own, however, Meredith finds that she has little left emotionally to offer him. As the two friends struggle to reconcile their desires against the expectations and institutions that seek to define them, they find themselves speeding toward a future more violent and senseless than they can imagine.

Dominicana by Angie Cruz

Fifteen-year-old Ana Cancion never dreamed of moving to America, the way the girls she grew up with in the Dominican countryside did. But when Juan Ruiz proposes and promises to take her to New York City, she has to say yes. It doesn’t matter that he is twice her age, that there is no love between them. Their marriage is an opportunity for her entire close-knit family to eventually immigrate. So on New Year’s Day, 1965, Ana leaves behind everything she knows and becomes Ana Ruiz, a wife confined to a cold six-floor walk-up in Washington Heights. Lonely and miserable, Ana hatches a reckless plan to escape. But at the bus terminal, she is stopped by Cesar, Juan’s free-spirited younger brother, who convinces her to stay.

As the Dominican Republic slides into political turmoil, Juan returns to protect his family’s assets, leaving Cesar to take care of Ana. Suddenly, Ana is free to take English lessons at a local church, lie on the beach at Coney Island, see a movie at Radio City Music Hall, go dancing with Cesar, and imagine the possibility of a different kind of life in America. When Juan returns, Ana must decide once again between her heart and her duty to her family.

The Bad Muslim Discount by Syed M. Masood

It is 1995, and Anvar Faris is a restless, rebellious, and sharp-tongued boy doing his best to grow up in Karachi, Pakistan. As fundamentalists in the government become increasingly strident and the zealots next door start roaming the streets in gangs to help make Islam great again, his family decides, not quite unanimously, to start life over in California. The irony is not lost on Anvar that in America, his deeply devout mother and his model-Muslim brother are the ones who fit right in with the tightly knit and gossipy Desi community. Anvar wants more.

At the same time, thousands of miles away, Safwa, a young girl suffocating in war-torn Baghdad with her grief-stricken, conservative father will find a very different and far more dangerous path to America. These two narratives are intrinsically linked, and when their worlds come together, the fates of two remarkably different people intertwine and set off a series of events that rock their whole community to its core.

The Bad Muslim Discount is an irreverent, dramatic, and often hysterically funny debut novel by an amazing new voice. With deep insight, warmth, and an irreverent sense of humor, Syed Masood examines quirky and intense familial relationships, arranged marriage, Islamic identity, and how to live together in modern America.

[jmurray1975]

rip syed masood you would have loved good luck babe! by chappell roan

[perrieedwards]

here's how we can get back syed and christian and zainab and masood and jane and tamwar and ronnie and roxy and tanya and max and

[dertaglichedan]

NEW YORK — Hair today, gone tomorrow.

The New York Police Department is going back to its clean-cut ways, banning beards just four years after it decided to allow them.

The rule, which follows a recent crackdown on sloppily-dressed cops, does not apply to undercover officers or to those who have been granted religious or medical exemptions.

The new edict was detailed in a May 3 internal order, called “Facial Hair Policy,” and applies to all police officers, school safety agents and traffic enforcement agents.

It’s set to take effect June 17 and was issued “to ensure that all uniformed members of the service reflect the department’s high standards for professionalism,” a NYPD spokesperson said.

The department relaxed its facial hair rules in 2020, two years after a settlement was made in a class-action lawsuit filed by a Muslim cop.

Officer Masood Syed, a Sunni Muslim who had been suspended for refusing to trim his one-inch beard to 1 mm in length, the maximum allowed by the department, argued the facial hair rules were unconstitutional.

[piyasahaberleri]

Yargıtay binasının dış görünüşü. - YargıtayİSLAMABAD: Yüksek Mahkeme Çarşamba günü, 9 Mayıs isyanlarıyla bağlantılı olarak sivillerin askeri mahkemelerde yargılandığı davaların geçersiz bulunduğunu duyuru eden 23 Ekim kararını askıya aldı. Yargıç Sardar Tarık Masood başkanlığındaki Yüksek Mahkeme heyeti, Yargıç Aminuddin Khan, Yargıç Muhammad Ali Mazhar, Yargıç Syed Hasan Azhar Rizvi, Yargıç Musarrat Hilali ve Yargıç İrfan Saadat Khan'dan oluşan altı üyeli kurul sonucu deklare etti. Kovuşturmak için daha fazlası...

[doyelikehaggis]

I would love if Christian came back but only if him and Syed are still together. I don't want a pointless offscreen breakup especially since they had a happy exit together.

I totally feel that! It would be pretty heartbreaking if Christian came back alone, especially because as you said they had a happy exit together. We know John would love to return, so now he just has to convince Marc to join him so that Christian and Syed stay together! We deserve more of married chryed <3

[iyo03]

Announcing the winners of the IYO® Yoga Competition These are the winners of the IYO® Yoga Competition:

Vini Singh Niharika Talukdar Sarita Garg Pinki Rachna Rana Tarulata Saikia Bhuyan Dr Pawan Kumar Gupta Khan Muhammad Mirani Syed Anwaar Ahmed Dr. Khalid Masood Malik muhammad Amin

[latteandbookz]

[New Post] ARC Review: More Than Just a Pretty Face by Syed M. Masood

Title: More Than Just a Pretty Face Author: Syed M. Masood Page count: 352 Published: August 4th, 2020 Publisher: Netgalley Genre: Contemporary Romance Received: From the Publisher/Author in exchange for an honest review Rating: 2/5 For fans of Becky Albertalli and Jenny Han, a sweetly funny YA rom-com debut about falling in love, familial expectations, and being a Renaissance…

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🌙 Books for Arab American Heritage Month 🌙

🌙 Good morning, bookish bats, and Eid Mubarak to those who are celebrating. Eid al-Fitr ("the feast of breaking the fast") marks the end of Ramadan, an Islamic holy month of fasting and sacrifice. April is also Arab American Heritage month, which celebrates the 3.7 million Arab Americans across the country. This is an opportunity to combat Anti-Arab bigotry by challenging stereotypes and prejudices.

✨ One of the best ways to do so is to read books ABOUT Arab Americans. To help, here are a few books for Arab American Heritage Month you can read, discuss, or add to your ever-growing TBR!

[ List under the cut. ]

✨ Growing up, I didn't have books that represented my experiences as an Arab or Muslim American. My friends didn't have stories to read that could help them understand my perspective. With that in mind, I added children's books on the last slide, for the moms out there searching for diverse books--books that allow us to empathize and understand different perspectives and experiences.

🌙 A Woman Is No Man - Etaf Rum ✨ The Other Americans - Laila Lamami 🌙 You Exist Too Much - Zaina Arafat ✨ Grape Leaves - Gregory Orfalea and Sharif Elmusa 🌙 The Wrong End of the Telescope - Rabih Alameddine ✨ The Beauty of Your Face - Sahar Mustafah 🌙 Martyr - Kaveh Akbar ✨ Between Two Moons - Aisha Abdel Gawad 🌙 Tasting the Sky - Ibtisam Barakat ✨ A Game for Swallows - Zeina Abirached 🌙 Love Is An Ex-Country - Randa Jarrar ✨ The Thirty Names of Night - Zeyn Joukhadar

🌙 I Was Their American Dream - Malaka Gharib ✨ A Country Called Amreeka - Alia Malek 🌙 A Theory of Birds - Zaina Alsous ✨ Against the Loveless World - Susan Abulhawa 🌙 Arab in America - Toufic El Rassi ✨ The Skin and Its Girl - Sarah Cypher 🌙 Sex and Lies - Leïla Slimani ✨ Loom - Thérèse Soukar Chehade 🌙 Birds of Paradise - Diana Abu-Jaber ✨ Come With Me - Noami Shihab Nye 🌙 Girls of Riyadh - Rajāʼ ʻAbd Allāh Ṣāniʻ ✨ How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? - Moustafa Bayoumi

🌙 Evil Eye - Etaf Rum ✨ The Girl Who Fell to Earth - Sophia Al-Maria 🌙 What Strange Paradise - Omar El Akaad ✨ Girls That Never Die - Safia Elhillo 🌙 Bahari - Dina Macki ✨ Life Without a Recipe - Diana Abu-Jaber 🌙 Egyptian Diary - Richard Platt ✨ Man O'War - Cory McCarthy 🌙 The Cave - Amani Ballour, MD ✨ The Map of Salt and Stars - Zeyn Joukhadar 🌙 They Called Me a Lioness - Ahed Tamimi and Dena Takruri ✨ Salt Houses - Hala Alyan

🌙 Arabiyya - Reem Assil ✨ Mornings in Jenin - Susan Abulhawa 🌙 Shubeik Lubeik - Deena Mohamed ✨ The Wrong End of the Telescope - Rabih Alameddine 🌙 Conditional Citizens - Laila Lamami ✨ An Unnecessary Woman - Rabih Alameddine 🌙 It Won't Always Be Like This - Malaka Gharib ✨ Proud - Ibtihaj Muhammad 🌙 The Land in Our Bones - Layla K Feghali ✨ Everything Comes Next - Naomi Shihab Nye 🌙 The Immortals of Tehran - Ali Araghi ✨ Starstruck - Sarafina El-Badry Nance

🌙 Our Women on the Ground - Various ✨ The Jasad Heir - Sara Hashem 🌙 Tell Me How You Really Feel - Aminah Mae Safi ✨ Surge - Etel Adnan 🌙 Here to Stay - Sara Farizan ✨ We Hunt the Flame - Hafsah Faisal 🌙 A Tempest of Tea - Hafsah Faizal ✨ The Bad Muslim Discount - Syed M. Masood 🌙 A Girl Like That - Tanaz Bhathena ✨ Not the Girls You're Looking For - Aminah Mae Safi 🌙 All-American Muslim Girl - Nadine Jolie Courtney ✨ The Moon That Turns You Back - Hala Alyan

🌙 Ms. Marvel - Destined - Saladin Ahmed ✨ Americanized: Rebel Without a Green Card - Sara Saedi 🌙 Internment - Samira Ahmed ✨ Stardust Thief - Chelsea Abdullah 🌙 Once Upon an Eid - Various ✨ Farah Rocks Fifth Grade - Susan Muaddi Darraj 🌙 Barakah Beats - Maleeha Siddiqui ✨ Amira's Picture Day - Reem Faruqi 🌙 The Tale of Princess Fatima, Warrior Woman ✨ Lailah's Lunchbox - Reem Faruqi 🌙 In My Mosque - M.O. Yuksel ✨ Halal Hot Dogs - Susannah Aziz

🌙 The Proudest Blue - Ibtihaj Muhammad ✨ Silverworld - Diana Abu-Jaber 🌙 Other Words for Home - Jasmine Warga ✨ Time to Pray - Maha Addasi 🌙 Under My Hijab - Hena Khan ✨ Wishing Upon the Same Stars - Jacquetta Nammar Feldman 🌙 Amina's Voice - Hena Khan ✨ Yasmin the Recycler - Saadia Faruqi 🌙 The Shape of Thunder - Jasmine Warga ✨ Deep in the Sahara - Kelly Cunnane, Hoda Hadadi 🌙 The Turtle of Michigan - Naomi Shihab Nye ✨ Shad Hadid and the Alchemists of Alexandria - George Jreije

[bookcub]

BOOK RECS ASK GAME: everything ending in 7, please!

a book you did not finish

these infinite threads by tahereh mafi because i may go back to it depending on what i hear about the end installment as i really loved the first but the love triangle really turned me off of the second one.

a book with a yellow cover

sway with me by syed m masood is a very cute ya romcom and coming of age story and it has a gorgeous yellow cover

a book with a purple cover

the bone witch by rin chupeco has one of my favorite covers and its purple!! (one day i will finish this series)

your favourite heist book

the gilded wolves by roshani chokshi!!! such good heists!!! and a fantastic found family to boot as well!!

a book that mentions a place in the title

i couldn't think of anything and then ofc i remembered anne of green gables which ofc has a place in the title

a book you want to hit bonk your head with

your favourite historical fiction novel

i cant think of anything that doesnt have magic also in it so ill go the golem and the jinni by helene wecker which is much more realistic than i had expected but absolutely mindblowing. and enough magic to keep me involved

a book so useless that you could use it as a coaster

BEAST BY DONNA JO NAPOLI i hate this book so much!!! im considering throwing my copy out in the trash actually

a book with a predictable ending

girl gone viral by alisha rai, a lovely romance novel but no actual surprises but lovely and healing to read (and so ace coded)

a book with a hospital setting

ooo um if i stay by gayle forman has a lot of scenes in the hospital (i can't think of anything else lol)

your favourite book in a different language

the storyteller by antonia michaelis was written in German initially and also so gorgeous and one of my all time favorite books as well as many people may have seen

your favourite anthology

at midnight, which is a bunch of retellings of fairy tales and there where 3 stories i loved in it and like 4 that i really enjoyed, which is a lot for an anthology

a book you'd read when you're missing somebody

the song of the lioness by tamora pierce is one of my main comfort reads ngl

send me a number for a book rec!