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She Moved Country to Marry You: The Loneliness Nobody Warns About Featured Already read
The Somali Wedding: The Meher, the Shash Saar and the Buraanbur Already read

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The Somali Wedding: The Meher, the Shash Saar and the Buraan...

Sixty people watched him sit on the floor with the knot in his hands for twenty minutes, and every o...

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The Sudanese Wedding: The Jirtig, the Groom's Henna and the Subhiya Already read

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The Sudanese Wedding: The Jirtig, the Groom's Henna and the...

Two friends held his hands still while a third drew the henna, and Mo'taz laughed so hard the patter...

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The Iraqi Wedding: The Nishan, the Milcha and the Hosa Already read

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The Iraqi Wedding: The Nishan, the Milcha and the Hosa

The hall was booked and the dresses were chosen when a cousin nobody had thought about in years made...

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The Tunisian Wedding: The Outia, the Hammam and the Week of Nights Already read

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The Tunisian Wedding: The Outia, the Hammam and the Week of...

The trays came down the street with the drums in front of them. Amira counted eleven. Her aunt, with...

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The Levantine Wedding: The Jaha, the Contract Conditions and the Dabke Already read

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The Levantine Wedding: The Jaha, the Contract Conditions and...

Seven men sat in the room and the coffee went cold in front of them. Nobody would touch a cup until...

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The Algerian Wedding: The Fatiha, the Chedda and the Seven Days Already read

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The Algerian Wedding: The Fatiha, the Chedda and the Seven D...

Yamina had been married six years when a clerk told her, politely, that as far as the state was conc...

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The Egyptian Wedding: Katb el-Kitab, Shabka and the Zaffa Explained Already read

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The Egyptian Wedding: Katb el-Kitab, Shabka and the Zaffa Ex...

Tarek had agreed to everything until the folded paper came out of the drawer. Nobody had told him ab...

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The Moroccan Wedding, Step by Step: From Khotba to Amariya Already read

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The Moroccan Wedding, Step by Step: From Khotba to Amariya

The afternoon Salma became a wife, she ate cake in a living room with twelve people and then went ho...

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