Hena Khan joined I’m Your Neighbor Books and Diversifi-ED for a conversation about her novel Amina’s Song and a broader conversation about Muslim children’s picture books and novels in the classroom.
Thank you to Hena Khan, school Emergent Lingual & Cultural Competency Consultant Louise El Yaafouri of Diversifi-ED, and I’m Your Neighbor Books co-president and Portland Empowered director Pious Ali for this beautiful exchange of words and ideas. And thank you to our neighborhood marvel, PRINT: A Bookstore and the 100+ attending educators and librarians.
Welcome
Listen to Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan’s Qwali, the music Amina first hears in a Lahore marketplace:
Where We Are At
Learning from Justice: When Bad Things Happen
Learning for Justice: Showing Up Strong for Yourself—and Your Students—in the Aftermath of Violence
Learning for Justice: After Atlanta: Teaching About Asian American Identity and History
Creator & Hosts
Here are connections to some of the folks you met on the migthy Zoom!
Award-winning author Hena Khan
Recent Arriver & Cultural Competency Consultant Louise El Yaafouri
Pious Ali of Portland Empowered and I’m Your Neighbor Books
Kirsten Cappy of I’m Your Neighbor Books and Curious City DPW
Children’s Bookseller Stephanie Heinz of PRINT: A Bookstore
Hena Khan’s Book
Explore Amina’s Song and her other titles at PRINT: A Bookstore.
Including Muslim Children’s Literature in the Classroom
Hijabi Librarians: Evaluating Muslims in Kit Lit
Learning for Justice: Who Are American Muslims?
The Antiracist Table: 30 Day Challenge
Social Justice Books: Muslim Booklist
Lee & Low: Tackling Islamophobia with Children’s Books
I’m Your Neighbor Books
Pakistani/Pakistani American Kidlit
Nowhere Boy: Community-Wide Read on Muslim Immigrant Allyship
