Good Muslim Boy
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Good Muslim Boy
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Narrated by:
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Osamah Sami
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David Tredinnick
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By:
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Osamah Sami
About this listen
Meet Osamah Sami: a schemer, a dreamer and a madcap antihero of spectacular proportions whose terrible life choices keep leading to cataclysmic consequences...despite his best laid plans to be a good Muslim boy.
By the age of 13, Osamah had survived the Iran-Iraq war, peddled fireworks and chewing gum on the Iranian black market, proposed 'temporary marriage' not once but three times, and received countless floggings from the Piety Police for trying to hold hands with girls in dark cinemas.
And the trouble didn’t stop when Osamah immigrated to Australia.
As much as he tried to be a good Muslim boy - his father was the lead cleric in Melbourne, after all - life was short, and there were beaches with girls in bikinis to skip school for, a medical degree to fake because the son of a cleric should become a doctor, and an arranged marriage to run away from because his heart belonged to someone else.
Good Muslim Boy is a hilarious and heartbreaking memoir of loss, love and family. It's about what we'll do to live up to expectations - and what we must do to live with ourselves.
©2015 Osamah Sami (P)2016 BolindaListeners also enjoyed...
I would highly recommend this book to everyone but especially the diaspora community who face all the trials and triumphs of moving around the world and working out what it means to 'just be' in new environments. As a Zimbabwean who moved to the UK in my teenage years, I found myself nodding along at the similarity in lived experiences. If, like me, you are also Muslim, this book is even more relatable as you are reminded that we have all faced similar struggles and moments of immense pride in our community, often bridging the gap between worlds that are not as different as those who seek to divide us would have us believe.
Osamah, if you ever read this, please do consider coming to tell your story in London (if you still want to tell it). There would be many of us who would love to see the play too and would cheer on its continued success. Thank you for sharing what you have already shared with us. The world of storytelling is better because of it.
Addictive as it is beautiful as it is funny as it as sad as it triumphant as it is...
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