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About: Shifa Safadi
Profile:
Shifa Saltagi Safadi is the author of KAREEM BETWEEN (Fall 2024), the AMINA BANANA chapter book series (coming 2025), the picture book THE GIFT OF EID (coming 2025), SPELL IT LIKE SAMAR (2019), HEAVEN AT MAMA’S FEET (2021) and PEPPERONI, PITCHES, AND OTHER PROBLEMS (2021). Shifa shares her favorite Muslim books on her online bookstagram @muslimmommyblog and is an ELA middle school teacher, so books are basically her whole life! Shifa was born in Syria and immigrated to the US with her parents as a young girl. She lives near Chicago (GO BEARS!) with her husband and four children.
Posts by Shifa Safadi:
- WNDMG Author Interview with Reem Faruqi on her book Zarina Divided (April 9, 2025 - Articles)
- WNDMG Author Interview with Raj Tawney on his book All-Mixed Up (December 11, 2024 - Articles, Author Interviews, WNDMG)
- WNDMG Author Interview with Lynnette Mawhinney about her New Book (October 9, 2024 - Articles, Author Interviews, Diversity, WNDMG)