![]() ![]() ![]() How do you get to know someone when the options seem to be to get married or end up a spinster? Why is her best friend Lara insisting that Menem isn't right for her? And why has her childhood friend Hakeem started behaving so strangely?Ī light-hearted but honest peek into the life of a young, single Muslim woman who knows there's more to life than love at first suitor visit. This story is a light-hearted but honest peek into the life of a young, single Muslim woman living in Sydney the joys of a blossoming romance (all very proper), the courtship rituals (so Jane Austen), the struggle with career and, of course, Arab Guilt. But with that comes a whole new set of problems. When she meets Menem in a chance encounter at a team-building day, for the first time Samira knows what it's like to naturally be interested in someone. Then she unwittingly becomes wedding gofer for her cousin/nemesis Zahra and her life begins to resemble a soap opera. A girl has to have some standards, right?Īs an assistant at Bridal Bazaar magazine, Samira's sick of all things wedding-related. Her general rule: if he comes in wearing shoes with tassels, a leather jacket circa 1982, and/or has a moustache, the doorknock appeal will fail from the outset. It may be the twenty-first century, but who says courtship is obsolete?Ĭoming from a (somewhat-traditional) Muslim family, twenty-seven-year-old Samira Abdel-Aziz has seen her fair share of suitors. ![]()
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