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Mawenzi House brings you fantastic from Canadian and other authors.

Mawenzi House is dedicated to bringing to the reading public fresh diverse writing from Canada and across the world that reflects the diversity of our rapidly globalizing world, particularly in Canada and the United States. We are dedicated to bringing to the reading public fresh new writing from Canada and across the world that reflects the diversity of our rapidly globalizing world. Our focus is

on works that can loosely be termed "multicultural" (for want of a better word). Our authors come from South Asian, East Asian, African, Caribbean and Arab backgrounds. Check out our website www.mawenzihouse.com for our recent titles and full backlist. Follow us on:

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11/28/2025

Tackling a host of issues, such as terrorism and fanaticism, human rights post 9/11, Islamic law, women’s rights, sharia, and the meaning of hijab, Sheema Khan explains Islam to the greater public while calling for mutual understanding and tolerance.

Provocative and original, even-handed and conciliatory, these essays are an important contribution to an urgent modern debate.

This book (and all our books) is 30% off on our website until the end of December: https://bit.ly/3Qu0XRy

11/25/2025

We're highlighting our three Confluences books this week.

Wide-ranging in theme and literary approach, each volume features a panoply of different voices—many Black and diasporic—that consider the politics of different aesthetics, confront cultural forms of imperialism, and think through urgent questions about memory, history, identity, and language.

Explore these three books: https://bit.ly/47luUfc

11/24/2025

Please join us in celebration for the launch of THE ALPHABET OF ALIENS by SABYASACHI NAG on Saturday, December 13, at 4:30 pm at the Benares Historic Museum in Mississauga.

Books will be on sale.

RSVP here: https://bit.ly/48gzNFs

11/21/2025

Choosing Hope: One Woman. Three Cancers is the story of how Munira Premji battled three advanced cancers: Stage 4 non-Hodgkin lymphoma, Stage 3 multiple myeloma, and Stage 3 breast cancer, within a period of five years.

It is easy to read and anecdotal in style, and will have special appeal to recently diagnosed cancer patients, survivors and their families, caregivers, and many others facing health challenges.

Begin reading Munira's story: https://bit.ly/ChoosingHopeBook

11/20/2025

Get started on your holiday shopping for your bookish friends (or yourself) with 35% off our print titles, and 20% off our ebooks!

Pre-orders are excluded from this sale.

Please remember to place your orders before December 12 to make sure you get your books in time for the holidays.

Shop our books: https://bit.ly/2VTsyyo

11/19/2025

“[A] relevant and timely reminder of the history of Muslim presence in Canada and the challenges and achievements that have accompanied this ongoing journey.”
—Monia Mazigh, rabble.ca

Minarets on the Horizon offers a detailed look at the Muslim presence in Canada, starting with early twentieth-century pioneers from Syria/Lebanon, the Balkans, and moving on to midcentury arrivals from South Asia and Africa. Told in their own words, the stories in this collection give us a rare insight into the lives of these pioneer Muslims.

Begin exploring wherever you buy your books.

11/18/2025

This week, we're highlighting some of our History and Criticism titles.

Gendered Islamophobia: My Journey with a Scar(f) by Monia Mazigh describes her struggles as a hijab-wearing Muslim woman, who was born and raised in Tunisia, where she attended university before coming to Quebec, Canada as an immigrant.

Minarets on the Horizon by Murray Hogben offers a detailed look at the Muslim presence in Canada, starting with the early twentieth-century pioneer settlers from Syria/Lebanon and the Balkans and moving on to the midcentury arrivals from South Asia and Africa.

The Relevance of Islamic Identity in Canada: Culture, Politics, and Self edited by Nurjehan Aziz examines, from diverse perspectives, what it means to be a Muslim in Canada.

All of these titles are available from wherever you buy books from, or on our website: https://bit.ly/462NhoS

11/17/2025

Nazneen Sheikh (I left You Behind, 2024) contributed eight Canadian books to 49th Shelf's recommended reads. From poetry to biography and memoir, these books are truly "glorious reads."

Check out the books Nazneen recommended: https://49thshelf.com/Blog/2025/11/10/8-Glorious-Reads

There is also a giveaway to win a copy of I Left You Behind through 49th Shelf!

11/14/2025

“We walk, we paddle, we admire the lake, the mountains, we hunt, we cut our wood, we don’t stop for a moment.”

Following Shimun paints a stirring picture of the Innu people, for whom the call of the land exerts a magnetic pull and the spirit of hospitality still dictates how they treat unexpected guests.

Start reading today: https://bit.ly/FollowingShimun

11/13/2025

Get all five books in the Prison of Dreams (KANAVUCCHIRAI) Quintet for only $60!

Use code BUNDLE60 at checkout to save when you buy all five of the Prison of Dreams books: https://bit.ly/47LceEE.

This pricing is available until November 20, 11:59 pm.

The KANAVUCCHIRAI quintet develop the context of Sri Lanka’s tragic civil war. As the youth in the island village of Nainativu realize that an increasingly Sinhala majoritarian nationalist government is curtailing their education and prospects, they begin to rise up in opposition

11/12/2025

“With prose that’s well paced and matter-of-fact, Malaria Memoirs reads like an intimate conversation with a friend, someone who has lived a dedicated life full of achievements and is ready to share.”
—Literary Review of Canada

From a background of abject poverty in a village in Tanzania, Zul Premji rose to become a laboratory technician, then a medical doctor, and finally a malaria expert and professor of pathology at a public university. Zul Premji tells his story in all its details—his family life, the obstacles of poverty and the impediments of politics, bureaucracy, and the human ego.
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11/11/2025

This month’s reading picks from the Caribbean, with reviews by Shivanee Ramlochan of A Quiet Disappearance by Rabindranath Maharaj; Heirloom by Catherine-Es ...

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