{"id":13726,"date":"2023-03-30T09:40:36","date_gmt":"2023-03-30T12:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcaf.nb.ca\/?p=13726"},"modified":"2023-03-30T09:40:39","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T12:40:39","slug":"love-from-mecca-to-medina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcaf.nb.ca\/en\/love-from-mecca-to-medina\/","title":{"rendered":"Love from Mecca to Medina"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By S.K. Ali<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Adam and Zayneb. Perfectly matched. Painfully apart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Adam is in Doha, Qatar, making a map of the Hijra, a historic migration from Mecca to Medina, and worried about where his next paycheck will come from. Zayneb is in Chicago, where school and extracurricular stresses are piling on top of a terrible frenemy situation, making her miserable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then a marvel occurs: Adam and Zayneb get the chance to spend Thanksgiving week on the Umrah, a pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina, in Saudi Arabia. Adam is thrilled; it\u2019s the reboot he needs and an opportunity to pray for a hijra in real life: to migrate to Zayneb in Chicago. Zayneb balks at the trip at first, having envisioned another kind of vacation, but then decides a spiritual reset is calling her name too. And they can\u2019t wait to see each other\u2014surely, this is just what they both need.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.simonandschuster.ca\/books\/Love-from-Mecca-to-Medina\/S-K-Ali\/9781665934152\" data-wplink-edit=\"true\">Love From Mecca to Medina<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From environmentalist and bestselling author Bill McKibben comes a hopeful, inspiring picture book celebrating the power of human cooperation and the beauty of life on Earth, beautifully illustrated by artist Stevie Lewis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13727,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"single-fullwidth.php","format":"image","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[84],"class_list":{"0":"post-13726","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-image","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-adult","8":"tag-anti-racism","9":"post_format-post-format-image"},"aioseo_notices":[],"menu_order":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcaf.nb.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcaf.nb.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcaf.nb.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcaf.nb.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcaf.nb.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13726"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mcaf.nb.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13729,"href":"https:\/\/mcaf.nb.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13726\/revisions\/13729"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcaf.nb.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcaf.nb.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcaf.nb.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcaf.nb.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}