{"id":3693,"date":"2003-09-26T11:53:08","date_gmt":"2003-09-26T15:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookdragon.si.edu\/?p=3693"},"modified":"2015-08-17T10:49:22","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T14:49:22","slug":"coming-to-america-a-muslim-familys-story-by-bernard-wolf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/coming-to-america-a-muslim-familys-story-by-bernard-wolf\/","title":{"rendered":"Coming to America: A Muslim Family\u2019s Story by Bernard Wolf [in AsianWeek]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2003\/09\/Coming-to-America.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-31830\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2003\/09\/Coming-to-America-300x257.jpg\" alt=\"Coming to America\" width=\"300\" height=\"257\" \/><\/a>A touching story about an immigrant Muslim family of five from Egypt, which shows details from their everyday lives. The book is especially relevant now, in order to expose young readers to a people and a religion that have been wrongly demonized by the Western media. Wolf uses his photography to show how the family fluidly integrates their religious beliefs into their daily activities, and poignantly shows the parents\u2019 hopes and dreams for the futures of their three children.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/07\/asian-week-2003-09-26-new-and-notable.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">&#8220;New and Notable Books,&#8221; <em>AsianWeek<\/em>, September 26, 2003<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Children, Middle Grade<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2003<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3139\" title=\"Coming to America\" src=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/06\/coming-to-america.jpg\" alt=\"Coming to America\" width=\"128\" height=\"104\" \/>A touching story about an immigrant Muslim family of five from Egypt, which shows details from their everyday lives. The book is especially relevant now, in order to expose young readers to a people and a religion that have been wrongly demonized by the Western media. Wolf uses his photography to show how the family fluidly integrates their religious beliefs into their daily activities, and poignantly shows the parents\u2019 hopes and dreams for the futures of their three children.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/07\/asian-week-2003-09-26-new-and-notable.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;New and Notable Books,&#8221; <em>AsianWeek<\/em>, September 26, 2003<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Children, Middle Grade<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2003<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31830,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,1126,30,20,6535],"tags":[3598,4389,6608,4390,10,25,39,55],"class_list":["post-3693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-children-picture-books","category-egyptian-american","category-middle-grade-readers","category-nonfiction","category-repost","tag-asianweek","tag-bernard-wolf","tag-bookdragon","tag-coming-to-america-a-muslim-familys-story","tag-family","tag-immigration","tag-parent-child-relationship","tag-religious-differences"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Coming to America: A Muslim Family\u2019s Story by Bernard Wolf [in AsianWeek] - BookDragon<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/coming-to-america-a-muslim-familys-story-by-bernard-wolf\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Coming to America: A Muslim Family\u2019s Story by Bernard Wolf [in AsianWeek] - BookDragon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A touching story about an immigrant Muslim family of five from Egypt, which shows details from their everyday lives. 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