“As a Small Brown Woman With an Arabic Name” – Ramiza Koya By: Devi S. Laskar The Royal Abduls depicts the cost of the anti-Muslim sentiment in the United States, through the lens of an Indian-American family in post 9/11 America. The […]
Oregon Live/The Oregonian Review
‘The Royal Abduls’ presents a Muslim American perspective on our post-9/11 world By: Amy Wang Ramiza Shamoun Koya used to feel invisible as a Muslim American. Then the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorism attacks happened. “As a Muslim, your life just […]
Willamette Week Review
Ramiza Shamoun Koya’s The Royal Abduls is an American novel in the way Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn or Toni Morrison’s Beloved is an American novel. Writers have long taken to fiction to lay out the country’s social woes on an operating table, building characters […]
Publisher’s Weekly Review
3/12/2020 Koya’s accomplished debut examines Indian-American identity and bigotry against a Muslim family after 9/11. In 2005, newly arrived in Washington, D.C., to start postdoc research on wild silk moths, Amina Abdul tries to help her brother Mohammed deal with […]
Tolerance
The Columbia Journal, April 5, 2019 Tolerance 1. To find the limits of your own tolerance, try having a child. I found mine after giving birth to my daughter in Morocco, in the thousand-year-old city of Fes. I was finishing […]
Driving Home
Published in The Big Smoke Link to the Publication January 27, 2020 Ramiza Shamoun Koya shares the concern of being a mother to an expectant daughter, revisiting the hardships she persevered while growing up. The road undulated gradually into the […]