The Nightingale

Author Session with Naima B Robert: Zoom Recording
Na’ima B. Robert is a speaker, coach and best-selling author of ‘From My Sisters’ Lips’, as well as over 25 other books that have been translated into over 14 languages. She is the recipient of several literary awards and is a respected author of diverse fiction and the author of Show Up: A Motivational Message for Muslim Women.
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Author Session with Homely Hammock: Zoom Recording
Hanan and Hafeezah Alsagoff are Singapore sisters who together make up Ukht Husni. They run Homely Hammock. The duo has produced many children’s books and we are grateful to have had the opportunity to speak with them and gain more insight on their creative process, research, and inspirations.
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Reader Spotlight: Faris Hajamaideen
It is very important to know who the author is, her teachers, previous outputs, quality of the translator, and at times even the information by the publisher is important.
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Reader Spotlight: Danial
The reading habit has been cultivated since young during school. We will have book reading sessions and there I a collection of Enid Blyton, Hardy Boys and other titles. I will always be curious to know what is the next story in the series and thus that has cultivated into a habit of reading.
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Reader Spotlight: Ameera Begum
Social media is a real time drain and most of the time, makes me feel emotionally spent too. For that 5 or 50 minutes I read instead of scroll, I am significantly happier and mentally fresher.
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Recording & Transcript: Why Reading Matters

When you see someone reading a book, lost in thought in a book, and you are rushing from one point to another or you are arguing with someone online. Perhaps now you will have an awareness that the one changing society for the good is the one reading a book. This is why reading matters.

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The Secret Gift of Reading is Time
If you spend less time for beauty, truth and reading, your valuing of beauty and truth will diminish. It’s that simple. Multiply this by the number of people in our population, and it is no surprise that the practice of skim-reading texts on social media has been implicated in the rise of the post-truth media environment — with all the ugliness and anarchy it brings.
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Not Out of the Woods
When I look at maps of Singapore from the 80s and the 90s, I see that the Changi wood and the Bedok Reservoir wood were actually tiny. But they meant so much, and their value incalculable. These slivers of wood are gone now. Also gone are the ecosystems they sustained and the life force they reverberated.
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Spiritual Insights and Reading in the Age of Distraction
The covenants clearly outline that the lives, property, wealth, and faith of the non-Muslims are all to be revered. Non-Muslims living in Muslim societies must always be treated with kindness and abusing their rights is a big sin before God.
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