Shaila Abdullah (born 1971) is a

Pakistani-American Pakistani Americans ( ur, ) are Americans who originate from Pakistan. The term may also refer to people who also hold a dual Pakistani and U.S. citizenship. Educational attainment level and household income are much higher in the Pakistani-Am ...

author, writer, and designer.

Life

Shaila Abdullah has received the Patras Bukhari Award for English Language, the Golden Quill Award, the Reader Views Award, the Written Art Award, and a grant from Hobson Foundation. '' Beyond the Cayenne Wall'' received the Jury Prize for Outstanding Fiction which is the highest award in the Norumbega Fiction Awards. Her books include ''Saffron Dreams'', ''Beyond the Cayenne Wall'' and three children's books: ''Rani in Search of a Rainbow'', ''My Friend Suhana'', and ''A Manual for Marco''. She has also written books for children with

special needs In clinical diagnostic and functional development, special needs (or additional needs) refers to individuals who require assistance for disabilities that may be medical, mental, or psychological. Guidelines for clinical diagnosis are given in ...

. In early 2014, a research team from

Washington and Lee University , mottoeng = "Not Unmindful of the Future" , established = , type = Private liberal arts university , academic_affiliations = , endowment = $2.092 billion (2021) , president = William C. Dudley , provost = Lena Hill , city = Lexingto ...

conducted a study in which they found that reading a 3,000-word extract from ''Saffron Dreams'' can make a person less

racist Racism is the belief that groups of humans possess different behavioral traits corresponding to inherited attributes and can be divided based on the superiority of one race over another. It may also mean prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism ...

. The novel was cited as 1 of 50 Greatest Works of Immigration Literature by Open Education Database.

Works

*''Beyond the cayenne wall : collection of short stories'', Lincoln, NE : iUniverse, 2005. , *''Saffron dreams : a novel'', Ann Arbor, MI : Modern History Press, 2010. , *''My friend Suhana'', Ann Arbor, MI : Loving Healing Press, 2014. , *''A manual for Marco'', Ann Arbor, MI : Loving Healing Press 2015. ,

References

External links

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If These Walls Could Talk
Nirali Magazine, April 2007 {{DEFAULTSORT:Abdullah, Shaila 1971 births 21st-century American women writers American women short story writers Pakistani emigrants to the United States Living people