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Current Book Club Reads

Meeting on 28 Dec 2024
Meeting on 18 January 2025
Meeting on 2 February 2025

The Nightingale

  • Live the Life of Barakah

    Live the Life of Barakah

    Mohammed Faris, founder of The Productive Muslim Company, introduces the Barakah Journal, a new productivity journal geared towards living and working with Baraka.
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  • On Board the Peace Train

    On Board the Peace Train

    We cannot allow pessimism to dominate for this will lead to negativity, ineffectual bickering, and dejected passivity. We must instead look deeper than the events of the day to consider the bedrock of our existence with its substructure ontologically suffused with mercy and compassion. 
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  • How to Cultivate a Reading Habit (HHWT Interview)

    How to Cultivate a Reading Habit (HHWT Interview)

    We should not think of reading as a hobby or something you do during your spare time – no one has spare time – but as a habit that has to be cultivated daily. The benefits of reading for the individual are enormous. It is a gymnasium of the mind, and the mind needs daily exercise.
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  • Silent Witnesses to History

    Silent Witnesses to History

    Were it not for books and historical record, it would be hard to fathom the lengths human beings have gone to eradicate not just the lives of individuals but whole ethnic and religious groups. And we have to know this because it keeps happening.
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  • In Conversation With Omar Usman

    In Conversation With Omar Usman

    The impact of technology in our homes we see now is unprecedented. It has affected the way parents interact with their kids, the way spouses are with each other, and even how adults are with their own elderly parents. The older we get, and the more life experience we accumulate, the more we notice these impacts and thus our concern about remedying them.
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  • Hijab and Healing

    Hijab and Healing

    An increase in the public display of Muslim identity (not just in uniform groups) need not be cast as something to be feared, or indeed as something trivial, rather it could instead be a pathway towards healing Muslim self-hate as well as healing stigmatisation.
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  • Reflection on Onjali Q. Rauf’s The Boy at the Back of the Class

    Reflection on Onjali Q. Rauf’s The Boy at the Back of the Class

    The child’s narrative voice and innocent internal logic is captured perfectly by Onjali Q. Rauf, and adults reading the book are given a glimpse of what life used to be, before they became world-weary (ok, cynical) grownups. Yes, there are hundreds of thousands of refugees spread across the whole continent, but if we all try very hard and ask the people in charge, we can maybe find Ahmet’s parents.
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