Ameena Hussein participates in the International Writing Program through the courtesy of the U.S. Department of State. She is an editor, publisher, fiction and non-fiction writer from Sri Lanka. Ms. Hussein is also a consultant for several...
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Nadia Abduljabbar stresses the need to address the similarities between Islam, Judaism, and Christianity, considering "different religions as different windows toward Heaven." Nihad Sirees addresses the concept of Jihad in Islam, and the...
Ameena Hussein, a Sri Lankan writer, has published two short-story collections, Zillij and Fifteen. She participated in the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program in 2005. “An Ordinary Death” first appeared in The Iowa Review’s...