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The Essential Rumi, New Expanded Edition
- By: Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi, Coleman Barks - translator, John Moyne - translator, and others
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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This revised and expanded edition of The Essential Rumi includes a new introduction by Coleman Barks and more than 80 never-before-published poems. Through his lyrical translations, Coleman Barks has been instrumental in bringing this literature to a wide range of listeners....
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magical and entertaining
- By Keith on 13-05-19
By: Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi, and others
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Faces of Love
- Hafez and the Poets of Shiraz
- By: Dick Davis, Hafez, Jahan Malek Khatun, and others
- Narrated by: Dick Davis, Tala Ashe, Ramiz Monsef
- Length: 5 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Acclaimed translator Dick Davis breathes new life into the timeless works of three masters of 14th-century Persian literature....
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A must for anyone with an interest in Persian culture
- By Harriet on 17-01-23
By: Dick Davis, and others
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Gilgamesh: The New Translation
- By: Gerald J. Davis
- Narrated by: John Hanks
- Length: 3 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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The tale of the fifth king of the first dynasty of Uruk (in what is modern-day Iraq), who reigned for 126 years, according to the ancient Sumerian list of kings....
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Good to have butt ... Hmm!
- By Ricci on 29-08-15
By: Gerald J. Davis
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Shahnameh
- The Epic of the Persian Kings
- By: Ferdowsi
- Narrated by: Marc Thompson, Francis Ford Coppola - introduction
- Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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The new, impeccable translation and adaptation of the Epic of Persian Kings by Ahmad Sadri brought to life a host of heroic characters and wove their adventures into a thrilling story spanning thousands of years....
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So epic as the title
- By Aram on 24-12-19
By: Ferdowsi
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The Love Poems of Rumi
- By: Nader Khalili
- Narrated by: Neil Shah
- Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Become lost in the words of The Love Poems of Rumi. Included in this audiobook is a collection of Jalal al-Din Rumi's passionate love poems, translated by Nader Khalili. Beautifully read by Neil Shah, you'll become spiritually inspired by the words in this audiobook....
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Love this audio book!
- By Amazon Customer on 30-04-20
By: Nader Khalili
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The Conference of the Birds
- By: Attar, Sholeh Wolpé - Translated by
- Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi
- Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Considered by Rumi to be "the master" of Sufi mystic poetry, Attar is best known for this epic poem, a magnificent allegorical tale about the soul's search for meaning....
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A very special book that I will return to
- By LC on 17-04-24
By: Attar, and others
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The Essential Rumi, New Expanded Edition
- By: Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi, Coleman Barks - translator, John Moyne - translator, and others
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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This revised and expanded edition of The Essential Rumi includes a new introduction by Coleman Barks and more than 80 never-before-published poems. Through his lyrical translations, Coleman Barks has been instrumental in bringing this literature to a wide range of listeners....
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magical and entertaining
- By Keith on 13-05-19
By: Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi, and others
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Faces of Love
- Hafez and the Poets of Shiraz
- By: Dick Davis, Hafez, Jahan Malek Khatun, and others
- Narrated by: Dick Davis, Tala Ashe, Ramiz Monsef
- Length: 5 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Acclaimed translator Dick Davis breathes new life into the timeless works of three masters of 14th-century Persian literature....
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A must for anyone with an interest in Persian culture
- By Harriet on 17-01-23
By: Dick Davis, and others
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Gilgamesh: The New Translation
- By: Gerald J. Davis
- Narrated by: John Hanks
- Length: 3 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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The tale of the fifth king of the first dynasty of Uruk (in what is modern-day Iraq), who reigned for 126 years, according to the ancient Sumerian list of kings....
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Good to have butt ... Hmm!
- By Ricci on 29-08-15
By: Gerald J. Davis
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Shahnameh
- The Epic of the Persian Kings
- By: Ferdowsi
- Narrated by: Marc Thompson, Francis Ford Coppola - introduction
- Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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The new, impeccable translation and adaptation of the Epic of Persian Kings by Ahmad Sadri brought to life a host of heroic characters and wove their adventures into a thrilling story spanning thousands of years....
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So epic as the title
- By Aram on 24-12-19
By: Ferdowsi
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The Love Poems of Rumi
- By: Nader Khalili
- Narrated by: Neil Shah
- Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Become lost in the words of The Love Poems of Rumi. Included in this audiobook is a collection of Jalal al-Din Rumi's passionate love poems, translated by Nader Khalili. Beautifully read by Neil Shah, you'll become spiritually inspired by the words in this audiobook....
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Love this audio book!
- By Amazon Customer on 30-04-20
By: Nader Khalili
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The Conference of the Birds
- By: Attar, Sholeh Wolpé - Translated by
- Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi
- Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Considered by Rumi to be "the master" of Sufi mystic poetry, Attar is best known for this epic poem, a magnificent allegorical tale about the soul's search for meaning....
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A very special book that I will return to
- By LC on 17-04-24
By: Attar, and others
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From Darkness Into Light
- By: A. Helwa
- Narrated by: A. Helwa
- Length: 1 hr and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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In her debut poetry audiobook, the number one international best-selling author of Secrets of Divine Love: A Spiritual Journey into the Heart of Islam, invites you to step into her beautifully composed world of devotional poetry....
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beauy in the text and narration
- By Nafeesa on 18-02-24
By: A. Helwa
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The Rumi Prescription
- How an Ancient Mystic Poet Changed My Modern Manic Life
- By: Melody Moezzi
- Narrated by: Mozhan Marnò
- Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Rumi's inspiring and deceptively simple poems have been called ecstatic, mystical, and devotional. To writer and activist Melody Moezzi, they became a lifeline. In The Rumi Prescription, we follow her path of discovery as she translates Rumi's works for herself....
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Personal and powerful
- By m on 26-10-21
By: Melody Moezzi
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مرداد (The Book of Mirdad)
- By: ميخائيل نعيمه (Mikhail Naima)
- Narrated by: Mohamed Ibrahim
- Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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يُحكى أنّ نوح، بعد الطوفان، سأل ابنه أن يبني هيكلًا يشبه الفلك، في وسطه مذبح تشتعل فيه نار لا تنطفئ، وأن يجمع فيه تسعة رجال يسمّون "رفاق الفلك"....
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ممتلئ بالحكمة والموعظة
- By Anonymous User on 22-07-20
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To Be an Israeli
- All My Love, Detrick, Book 4
- By: Roberta Kagan
- Narrated by: Juliet Jones
- Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
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Elan understands what it means to be an Israeli. He’s sacrificed the woman he loved, his marriage, and his life for Israel. When Israel went to war and Elan was summoned in the middle of the night, he did not hesitate to defend his country....
By: Roberta Kagan
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The Rumi Collection
- An Anthology of Translations of Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi
- By: Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi, Kabir Helminski - editor
- Narrated by: Richard Pryal
- Length: 6 hrs and 5 mins
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The Rumi Collection presents an essential anthology of the works of the thirteenth-century Sufi poet and philosopher Jalâluddin Rumi....
By: Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi, and others
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The Prophet
- By: Kahlil Gibran
- Narrated by: Stewart Crank
- Length: 1 hr and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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The Prophet is a book of 26 prose poetry fables written in English by the Lebanese-American poet and writer Kahlil Gibran. It is Gibran's best-known work....
By: Kahlil Gibran
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The Way of the Sufi
- By: Idries Shah
- Narrated by: David Ault
- Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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The Way of the Sufi presents an unparalleled cross-section of material from Sufi schools, Sufi teachings, and classical writings as a basic course of Sufi study....
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Poor narration
- By HumS on 08-10-18
By: Idries Shah
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Gaza Writes Back
- Short Stories from Young Writers in Gaza, Palestine
- By: Refaat Alareer
- Narrated by: Amin El Gamal, Lameece Issaq
- Length: 3 hrs and 50 mins
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Gaza Writes Back: Short Stories from Young Writers in Gaza, Palestine, edited by Refaat Alareer, is a compelling collection of short stories from 15 young writers in Gaza....
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Great stories and a mix of emotions
- By Christian on 28-04-16
By: Refaat Alareer
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Occupied
- By: Joss Sheldon
- Narrated by: Jack Wynters
- Length: 12 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Step into a world which is both magically fictitious and shockingly real, to follow the lives of Tamsin, Ellie, Arun, and Charlie; a refugee, native, occupier, and economic migrant....
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wow
- By Jason on 26-03-18
By: Joss Sheldon
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Sparks of Phoenix
- By: Najwa Zebian
- Narrated by: Najwa Zebian
- Length: 1 hr and 11 mins
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As the phoenix emerges from its ashes, Zebian emerges ablaze in these words, not only as a survivor of abuse, but as a teacher and healer for all those who have struggled to understand, reclaim, and rise above a history of pain....
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Sparks of Phoenix
- By Tinag on 21-02-24
By: Najwa Zebian
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Spiritual Verses
- By: Jalal ad-Din Rumi
- Narrated by: Anton Lesser
- Length: 4 hrs and 44 mins
- Abridged
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Rumi's Spiritual Verses is the greatest mystical poem in Islamic culture - and of all time....
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Abosultely wonderful
- By Tariq on 09-02-09
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Layli and Majnun
- By: Nezami Ganjavi, Dick Davis - translator introduction
- Narrated by: Dick Davis, Peter Ganim, Serena Manteghi, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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The iconic love story of the Middle East, by a 12th-century Persian poet who has been compared to Shakespeare for his subtlety, inventiveness, and dramatic force, Layli and Majnun tells of star-crossed lovers whose union is tragically thwarted by their families....
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Absolutely superb!
- By Dennis Sommers on 14-02-21
By: Nezami Ganjavi, and others
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The Nectar of Pain
- By: Najwa Zebian
- Narrated by: Najwa Zebian
- Length: 3 hrs and 8 mins
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In The Nectar of Pain, Zebian sheds light on the feelings and experiences that emerge from a painful heartbreak. She writes that the process of cleansing oneself of that pain—day by day, hour by hour, and second by second—is the real work of healing....
By: Najwa Zebian
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Mind Platter
- By: Najwa Zebian
- Narrated by: Najwa Zebian
- Length: 4 hrs and 33 mins
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Mind Platter is a compilation of reflections on life as seen through the eyes of an educator, student, and human who experienced her early days in silence....
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The piercing clarity, gently presented - all chapter’s resonated.
- By Amazon Customer on 26-12-23
By: Najwa Zebian
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The Lions' Den
- Zionism and the Left from Hannah Arendt to Noam Chomsky
- By: Susie Linfield
- Narrated by: Kathe Mazur
- Length: 16 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Cultural critic Susie Linfield investigates how eight prominent 20th-century intellectuals struggled with the philosophy of Zionism, and then with Israel and its conflicts with the Arab world....
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Hope
- By David Pugh on 06-12-20
By: Susie Linfield
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I Want Burning
- The Ecstatic World of Rumi, Hafiz, and Lalla
- By: Coleman Barks
- Narrated by: Coleman Barks
- Length: 1 hr and 12 mins
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In I Want Burning, Coleman Barks fuses his passionate scholarship with a deep feeling for the poetry of Rumi, Hafiz, and Lalla....
By: Coleman Barks
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Jasmine and Stars
- Reading More than Lolita in Tehran
- By: Fatemeh Keshavarz
- Narrated by: Fatemeh Keshavarz
- Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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In a direct, frank, and intimate exploration of Iranian literature and society, scholar, teacher, and poet Fatemeh Keshavarz challenges popular perceptions of Iran as a society bereft of vitality and joy....
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The Meursault Investigation
- By: Kamel Daoud, John Cullen - translator
- Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi
- Length: 4 hrs and 7 mins
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He was the brother of "the Arab" killed by the infamous Meursault, the antihero of Camus' classic novel....
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'Publishing Sensation of the Summer'
- By GC on 22-07-15
By: Kamel Daoud, and others
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The Book of Rumi
- By: Rumi, Maryam Mafi - translator, Narguess Farzad - foreword
- Narrated by: Keith Szarabajka
- Length: 4 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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This fresh prose translation of 105 short teaching stories by Rumi, which form the core of the six-volume Masnavi, explores the hidden spiritual aspects of everyday experience. Rumi transforms the seemingly mundane events of daily life into profound Sufi teaching moments....
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Couldn’t finish
- By EveG on 24-09-21
By: Rumi, and others
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Ghalib, the Indian Beloved
- Urdu Odes
- By: Ghalib, Khalid Hameed Shaida - translator
- Narrated by: Rick Stahlmam
- Length: 2 hrs and 6 mins
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With an arcing and emphatic beauty, Ghalib, the Indian Beloved by Khalid Hameed Shaida is a starry-eyed collection of 124 translated odes by Ghalib....
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5 stars
- By Shaleem on 14-03-23
By: Ghalib, and others
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The Prophet (AmazonClassics Edition)
- By: Kahlil Gibran
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 1 hr and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Before he sets sail, a beloved prophet is asked by his followers to impart his truth. In these twenty-eight poetic essays, he offers profound inspiration on such matters of love and friendship, freedom and self-knowledge, joy and sorrow....
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Almost like manuscript found in Accra
- By Rosemary Mpofu on 30-06-19
By: Kahlil Gibran
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Il cacciatore di aquiloni
- By: Khaled Hosseini
- Narrated by: Andrea Oldani
- Length: 12 hrs and 42 mins
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Nell’Afghanistan degli anni settanta il dodicenne Amir desidera con tutto se stesso vincere la gara di aquiloni che si tiene ogni anno a Kabul...
By: Khaled Hosseini
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A Hundred Sweet Promises
- By: Sepehr Haddad
- Narrated by: Tim Fearon
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
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A family secret revealed 40 years ago by a grandmother to her grandson is now an acclaimed Russian historical fiction novel. A Hundred Sweet Promises is the tale of the author’s grandfather, Nasrosoltan, a famed composer....
By: Sepehr Haddad
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The Greater Freedom
- Life as a Middle Eastern Woman Outside the Stereotypes
- By: Alya Mooro
- Narrated by: Alya Mooro
- Length: 5 hrs and 56 mins
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Egyptian-born and London-raised, Alya Mooro grew up between two cultures and felt a pull from both. Where could she turn for advice and inspiration when it seemed there was nobody else like her....
By: Alya Mooro