“A wild, rollicking ride into the heart of horse country—these essays get at what it means to love horses, in all that love's complexity.” —Anton DiSclafani, author of The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls A compelling and provocative essay collection that smashes stereotypes and redefines the meaning of the term “horse girl,” broadening it for women of all cultural backgrounds. As a child, horses consumed Halimah Marcus’ imagination. When she wasn’t around horses she was pretending to be one, cantering on two legs, hands poised to hold invisible reins. To her classmates, girls like Halimah were known as “horse girls,” weird and overzealous, absent from the social worlds of their peers. Decades later, when memes about “horse girl energy,” began appearing across social media—Halimah reluctantly recognized herself. The jokes imagine girls as blinkered as carriage ponies, oblivious to the mockery behind their backs. The stereotypical horse girl is also white, thin, rich, and straight, a daughter of privilege. Yet so many riders don’t fit this narrow, damaging ideal, and relate to horses in profound ways that include ambivalence and regret, as well as unbridled passion and devotion. Featuring some of the most striking voices in contemporary literature—including Carmen Maria Machado, Pulitzer-prize winner Jane Smiley, T Kira Madden, Maggie Shipstead, and Courtney Maum—Horse Girls reframes the iconic bond between girls and horses with the complexity and nuance it deserves. And it showcases powerful emerging voices like Braudie Blais-Billie, on the connection between her Seminole and Quebecois heritage; Sarah Enelow-Snyder, on growing up as a Black barrel racer in central Texas; and Nur Nasreen Ibrahim, on the colonialist influence on horse culture in Pakistan. By turns thought-provoking and personal, Horse Girls reclaims its titular stereotype to ask bold questions about autonomy and desire, privilege and ambition, identity and freedom, and the competing forces of domestication and wildness.

In Halimah and the Snake, Grace Todino-Gonguet has collected and re-written a handful of stories from Oman's folktale heritage. As with folktales and legends worldwide, the creatures and characters are at times terrifying and fantastic, the stories always enthralling, and invariably seek to impart some moral guidance to their young readers. ...

First published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Women often appear to suffer from the misconception that to be successful in business or accepted in society they have to diminish or denounce their faith or beliefs.In "Not Without My Hijab", Halimah walks you through her personal journey to self discovery while navigating College, Corporate America and relationships. Halimah guides you through 11 Steps to Reclaiming Your Faith.In her travels as a business coach, she's encountered women cross culturally who face the same internal conflict regarding their religious identity and has written this book to help guide them back to being their most authentic selves so they can live their absolute best life.

The Awesome Women series: Leaders: Boldness box set features three board books to inspire young readers to be anything they want to be. Each story pays tribute to an awesome female role model by recounting her struggles and challenges, and detailing her success. Young readers will also learn interesting nuggets about each leader, such as the fact that Angela Merkel was once asked to be an informant for the East German State, that Halimah Yacob was almost expelled from school when she was young, and that Hillary Clinton aspired to be a NASA astronaut and a US marine, but was rejected by both institutions because she was female .The Awesome Women series also includes the Awesome Women series: Leaders: Authenticity box set, featuring Condoleezza Rice, Jacinda Ardern and Margaret Thatcher. Readers will also have fun searching for the authors and illustrator’s daughters Andrea and Beth hidden in the illustrations! "I have no doubt that the series will inspire young girls and boys to tap into their grit and determination even when faced with challenging situations in life." —Her Excellency Halimah Yacob, President of Singapore

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Visual Informatics Conference, IVIC 2009, held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in November 2009. The 82 revised research papers presented together with four invited keynote papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 216 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on virtual technologies and systems, virtual environment, visualization, engineering and simulation, as well as visual culture, services and society.

"It's rough and it's smooth. It's dark and it's light. It's a masterpiece. It's us. Here in Sudan. We are scared of it and drawn to it. There is an open door, and there is much opposition." In the dusty, Islamic country of Sudan, Mia, who is raising her family in a Muslim country, has learned to boldly share her faith. Rania, the daughter of a wealthy Sudanese Arab, seeks to find the reason for her sister’s sudden disappearance. Mia holds some of the answers, but both women quickly discover they must each walk through their own doors to freedom—the freedom that only comes when you trust God’s sovereignty more than man-made security. Part of New Hope® Publishers’ line of contemporary missional fiction, Door to Freedom, the sequel to Side by Side, opens the reader’s eyes to modern-day persecution and the life of Muslims in Sudan. Based on real-life events, Door to Freedom also reveals some of the struggles that Christians face when living under Islamic law. The reader will be inspired to pray for those who are persecuted for their faith as well as for the salvation of the persecutors.

Navigating Languages, Literacies and Identities showcases innovative research at the interface of religion and multilingualism, offering an analytical focus on religion in children and adolescents’ everyday lives and experiences. The volume examines the connections between language and literacy practices and social identities associated with religion in a variety of sites of learning and socialization, namely homes, religious education classes, places of worship, and faith-related schools and secular schools. Contributors engage with a diverse set of complex multiethnic and religious communities, and investigate the rich multilingual, multiliterate and multi-scriptal practices associated with religion which children and adolescents engage in with a range of mediators, including siblings, peers, parents, grandparents, religious leaders, and other members of the religious community. The volume is organized into three sections according to context and participants: (1) religious practices at home and across generations, (2) religious education classes and places of worship and (3) bridging home, school and community. The edited book will be a valuable resource for researchers in applied linguistics, linguistic anthropology, socio-linguistics, intercultural communication, and early years, primary and secondary education.

Aina menghadapi pelbagai konflik peribadi dan dan membiarkan hidupnya hanyut dalam dunia khayalan. Dia meminati insan yang mustahil untuk dimiliki, namun kuasa Allah tiada siapa yang dapat mengatasinya. Fasa kehidupannya berubah dengan takdir yang mendatang, lalu menjelmakan dirinya yang lain. Doa memakan diri, namun musibah yang menimpa membuatkan kehidupannya lebih bererti. Budi, lelaki yang didambakan hadir jua di depan mata walaupun bukan untuk bertakhta di jiwa selamanya. Allah Maha Mendengar kerana mewujudkan pertemuan itu meskipun tidak semanis impiannya. Tamrin, dia hanya rakan sepermainan namun rupa-rupanya terpahat sebuah ikatan yang tidak pernah dirancang. Mereka mangsa keadaan lalu bibit-bibit percintaan tercetus dalam diam. Aina pasrah menerima ketentuan. Demikian kehidupan, tiada yang mustahil akan terjadi jika sudah ditakdirkan. Sebagai insan yang ada rasa cinta, kecapilah kebahagiaan yang masih tersisa dengan sepenuh jiwa agar hidup lebih sempurna.