<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[author results for "Ramadan, Ahmad Danny"]]></title><description><![CDATA[author results for "Ramadan, Ahmad Danny"]]></description><link>https://gateway.bibliocommons.com/v2/libraries/lethlib/rss/search?query=%22Ramadan%2C%20Ahmad%20Danny%22&amp;searchType=author&amp;view=grouped</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 23:05:02 GMT</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[Salma the Syrian Chef]]></title><description><![CDATA["Newcomer Salma and friends cook up a heartwarming dish to cheer up Mama. All Salma wants is to make her mama smile again. Between English classes, job interviews, and missing Papa back in Syria, Mama always seems busy or sad. A homemade Syrian meal might cheer her up, but Salma doesn’t know the recipe, or what to call the vegetables in English, or where to find the right spices! Luckily, the staff and other newcomers at the Welcome Center are happy to lend a hand—and a sprinkle of sumac. With creativity, determination, and charm, Salma brings her new friends together to show Mama that even though things aren’t perfect, there is cause for hope and celebration. Syrian culture is beautifully represented through the meal Salma prepares and Anna Bron’s vibrant illustrations, while the diverse cast of characters speaks to the power of cultivating community in challenging circumstances."--]]></description><link>https://lethlib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S40C3081397</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://lethlib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S40C3081397</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ramadan, Ahmad Danny]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://lethlib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3081397040</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781773213750/MC.GIF&amp;client=chinookarch&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Salma Joins the Team]]></title><description><![CDATA[Salma dreams of becoming a champion swimmer like her hero, Olympian Yusra Mardini. So when she signs up for her school's swim club, it feels like her dreams could come true . . . until mean comments from older girls at the pool and women at her mosque spark body image and self-esteem issues. But with the help of her close friends and family - the team that always has her back - Salma is ready to claim her place in the pool.]]></description><link>https://lethlib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S40C3526144</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://lethlib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S40C3526144</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ramadan, Ahmad Danny]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://lethlib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3526144040</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781773218298/MC.GIF&amp;client=chinookarch&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Salma Makes A Home]]></title><description><![CDATA["Charming, creative Salma takes on big feelings with even bigger ideas as she navigates life in a new country, Syrian identity, family changes and new friendships in this engaging and heartfelt early chapter book series. After a year, eleven months, and six days apart, Salma's dad is finally joining her family in their new home. Salma is so happy to see her baba-but she's also worried. What if he misses Syria so much that he leaves them again? She throws herself into showing him around the city and helping him learn English, but as Baba shares memories of Damascus Salma starts to realize how much she misses Syria, too. Can Salma make space in her heart for two homes? And can Baba?"--]]></description><link>https://lethlib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S40C3280461</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://lethlib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S40C3280461</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ramadan, Ahmad Danny]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://lethlib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3280461040</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781773217611/MC.GIF&amp;client=chinookarch&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Salma Writes A Book]]></title><description><![CDATA["Salma is going to be a big sister! She's determined to be the best sister ever, so she sets out to write the ultimate guidebook to siblinghood. But the more Salma learns about siblings, the more confused she gets, especially since her mama is fighting with her own brother, Khalou Dawood, about who he loves. Can Salma figure out what it means to be a good sister before the baby arrives?"--]]></description><link>https://lethlib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S40C3527327</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://lethlib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S40C3527327</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ramadan, Ahmad Danny]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://lethlib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3527327040</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781773218038/MC.GIF&amp;client=chinookarch&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Crooked Teeth]]></title><description><![CDATA[A reckoning with a life spent out of place and a conflicted love letter to homes that can't be returned to.Danny Ramadan did not intend to write a memoir. A celebrated novelist, he spent years sharpening his fiction-writing skills, drawing on his lived experience only to give his stories a ring of authenticity. But what would it mean to step out from behind the characters he imagined and the scenes he dreamed up? Would his triumphs and his craft be seen as clearly as the trauma he endured?Establishing a pact with readers in the opening pages, Danny gives himself the freedom to write about his life on his own terms. He details his childhood in Syria, from his parents fierce conflict and his mothers mental illness to the government seizure of his grandfathers traditional Damascene home. He documents his budding queerness, from moments stolen in internet cafes and darkened movie theatres to discovering the citys underground network of safe homes and a chosen family helmed by a trans matriarch. He charts the origins of his career, from penning fan fiction on message boards to publishing with an independent press in Cairo and reporting on Arab Spring uprisings with self-interested journalists in Beirut. And we witness the journey from his fraught arrival in Vancouver, complicated by a flawed refugee placement program, to a life steadied by comfort, love, and community.Told in an intimate, conversational voice, Crooked Teeth is both a refutation of the oversimplified refugee narrative and an invitation to see the fullness and complexity of a life caught between worldstaking in all of its beauty and contradictions, its struggles and its joys.]]></description><link>https://lethlib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S40C3502644</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://lethlib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S40C3502644</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ramadan, Ahmad Danny]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://lethlib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3502644040</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Queer Syrian Refugee Memoir</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780735242210/MC.GIF&amp;client=chinookarch&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Foghorn Echoes]]></title><description><![CDATA[Syria, 2003. A blooming romance leads to a tragic accident when Hussam's father catches him acting on his feelings for his best friend, Wassim. In an instant, the course of their lives is changed forever. Ten years later, Hussam and Wassim are still struggling to find peace and belonging. Sponsored as a refugee by a controlling older man, Hussam is living an openly gay life in Vancouver, where he attempts to quiet his demons with sex, drugs, and alcohol. Wassim is living on the streets of Damascus, having abandoned a wife and child and a charade he could no longer keep up. Taking shelter in a deserted villa, he unearths the previous owner's buried secrets while reckoning with his own. The past continues to reverberate through the present as Hussam and Wassim come face to face with heartache, history, drag queens, border guards, and ghosts both literal and figurative. Masterfully crafted and richly detailed, The Foghorn Echoes is a gripping novel about how to carve out home in the midst of war, and how to move forward when the war is within yourself.]]></description><link>https://lethlib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S40C3172414</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://lethlib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S40C3172414</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ramadan, Ahmad Danny]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://lethlib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3172414040</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Novel</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780735242180/MC.GIF&amp;client=chinookarch&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Salma the Syrian Chef]]></title><description><![CDATA[All Salma wants is to make her mama smile again. Between English classes, job interviews, and missing Papa back in Syria, Mama always seems busy or sad. A homemade Syrian meal might cheer her up, but Salma doesn't know the recipe, or what to call the vegetables in English, or where to find the right spices! Luckily, the staff and other newcomers at the Welcome Center are happy to lend a hand--and a sprinkle of sumac.--Publisher.]]></description><link>https://lethlib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S40C3573514</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://lethlib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S40C3573514</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ramadan, Ahmad Danny]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://lethlib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3573514040</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Clothesline Swing]]></title><description><![CDATA["The Clothesline Swing is a journey through the troublesome aftermath of the Arab Spring. A former Syrian refugee himself, Ramadan unveils an enthralling tale of courage that weaves through the mountains of Syria, the valleys of Lebanon, the encircling seas of Turkey, the heat of Egypt and finally, the hope of a new home in Canada. Inspired by Arabian Tales of One Thousand and One Nights, The Clothesline Swing tells the epic story of two lovers anchored to the memory of a dying Syria. One is a Hakawati, a storyteller, keeping life in forward motion by relaying remembered fables to his dying partner. Each night he weaves stories of his childhood in Damascus, of the cruelty he has endured for his sexuality, of leaving home, of war, of his fated meeting with his lover. Meanwhile Death himself, in his dark cloak, shares the house with the two men, eavesdropping on their secrets as he awaits their final undoing."--]]></description><link>https://lethlib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S40C2578581</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://lethlib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S40C2578581</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ramadan, Ahmad Danny]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://lethlib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2578581040</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780889713321/MC.GIF&amp;client=chinookarch&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item></channel></rss>