Based in Bhopal, Mariam Khan is an imaginative and curious eight-year-old dyslexic child who doesn’t take things at face value. She is the youngest member of a large family. His grandfather is the patriarch. She idolizes her uncle and adoptive father Majaaz, an idealistic journalist and newspaper owner. She plans to become a journalist and shares an emotional bond with Majaaz. Her mother’s only concern is to marry off her daughters, while Mariam plans to become a journalist. However, several years later, Mariam’s real mother or Majaaz’s sister, who left for Pakistan after the wedding, returns to retrieve Mariam. Emotionally blackmailing the family, she takes Mariam to Pakistan. Unaware, she learns that Majaaz is her uncle and she is brought here to use his narrow bone on her brother. At the hospital, Mariam’s mother leaves her phone in Mariam’s cabin. She uses it to contact her family, so she is saved. Unknown to the younger generation,

Growing up, Mariam adopts the name Manjeet Kaur to escape her past and starts living in Amritsar and working as a freelance taxi driver. While taking her passenger to meet Fawad (actually her adoptive mother Madeeha’s fraternal nephew), she is shocked to see Majaaz’s photo in her hand. She suspects him and tries to find out more about her father.

Later, Mariam learns that her apparently dead family is in fact alive and that her house did not burn down. Madeeha’s sister-in-law and Zain and Fawad’s mother, Rifat tricked Mariam that they died so she could possess the ancestral house in his name. Mariam and Fawad fall in love. Alive, Majaaz turns out to be innocent and joins them. Fawad and Mariam get married.

Fawad and his ex-girlfriend, Bhakti’s daughter, Cheeku enter. Later it is revealed that she is not his daughter. In reality, Rifat asked Bhakti to tell, but she refused. She then killed Bhakti and falsely stated that Cheeku was Fawad’s daughter. Rifat is arrested. Mariam and Fawad adopt Cheeku, and everyone lives happily ever after.

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    Experience the groundbreaking book that is poised to change the conversation around Muslim women and Islamophobia. “It’s Not About the Burqa” is a collection of essays by seventeen Muslim women who are speaking out on a range of issues, from love and divorce to feminism, queer identity, sex, and the challenges of navigating a disapproving community and a racist country.

    These are voices you won’t hear in the mainstream media – women who are British and international, from a variety of backgrounds and perspectives. They are frank, funny, angry, and passionate as they declare that it’s time to end the oppression, lazy stereotyping, misogyny, and Islamophobia that Muslim women face.

    If you’re tired of hearing about Muslim women from people who are neither Muslim nor female, this book is for you. It’s time to listen to the voices of Muslim women themselves, and learn what it really means to be a Muslim woman in the West today. Don’t let the media’s obsession with the burqa obscure the real issues – pick up “It’s Not About the Burqa” and hear what Muslim women have to say.

     

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