Adam and Zaynab from the Ocean to the Gulf

Sajida K. Ali S. K. Ali

"Rare are the novels that resonate with young Muslims in today's world, discussing a love that aligns with the modern and developed era they belong to, while simultaneously respecting their social values and conforming to their cultural identity. In fact, such novels may be almost entirely absent from library shelves. Until the story of Adam and Zaynab arrived.

Adam is a Canadian young man who embraced Islam at the age of eleven. He travels back from university in London to his father and sister's home in Doha, burdened with a heavy secret: he suffers from multiple sclerosis, the same disease that took his mother when he was a small child.

Zaynab is an American student of Pakistani and Caribbean descent, a veiled, bold woman who does not tolerate injustice and bullying in a world that has not yet fully completed its lessons in accepting others who are different in race, religion, or culture. But her anger at her anti-Islam professor cost her expulsion from school... In an attempt to escape this atmosphere, she travels to her aunt in Qatar.

They don't know each other. And neither knows that the other, like them, has a notebook in which they record the wonders and oddities of life. Until the paths of the two travelers intersect, along with their notebooks... and their hearts intertwine."