​Welcome to the UNMUTE Book Club:
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We don't read books from bestseller lists ​
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We don’t read books recommended or written by celebrities.
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We don’t read books with perfect plots and perfect people.
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We don’t read what’s trending.
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We don’t read the same stories with different covers.
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We don’t read what everyone else is reading.
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​We read books written without ever signing the dotted line.
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We read books written by the one-for-the-one and not for the fans, the likes, and the reels.
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We read books by authors with no agents, no publishers, no PR team.
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We read books that are real, messy, loud, and true.
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We read books that break rules, not follow formulas.
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​We read local stories written right here in the UAE.
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The books we choose to read weren’t bound by book deals, contracts, or publishing houses.
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They were written out of pain, out of urgency, because silence was no longer an option.
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Written in homes. In notebooks. On phones.
Written in the middle of the authors’ messy, beautiful, complicated lives.
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No filters. No inhibition. No rules.
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Just a voice, a truth, and the courage to put it on the page.
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Because these are the stories that matter.
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These are the stories that remind us we’re not alone.
THE CURATOR
Sara Hamam is the curator of The UNMUTE Project Book Club.
A lifelong lover of books, Sara once started a traditional book club but quickly realized most of what she was reading felt nothing like the life she was living. Same characters. Same endings. Same voices.
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She joined UNMUTE because she was done looking for herself in stories that didn’t reflect her life.
Now, she’s curating the ones that do.
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Sara Hamam
IN SEPTEMBER WE ARE READING
The Revelations of a Millennial Mom by Shabeena Zaidi
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The Revelations of a Millennial Mom is a book of unspoken musings of a present-day mother, written by Shabeen Zaidi who like many new moms, struggled with identity loss, emotional burnout, and the constant balancing act of motherhood and career. When her first child was born in 2015, she realized something crucial; mothers everywhere silently faced the same struggles, but no one was talking about them. Her book is her memoir, her motherhood story entailing the metamorphosing of a girl into a mother and the myriad of changes taking place in and around her life. The book is a collection of light-hearted anecdotal comparisons and biases around motherhood, and discovering your own self away from motherhood.
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IN JUNE WE ARE READ
The Frustrated Women's Club by Amandeep Ahuja
The Frustrated Women’s Club, a book that captures the chaos, comedy, and catharsis of modern womanhood, written by Amndeep Ahuja, a consultant by day and a storyteller by heart, who navigates the world of geopolitics while secretly plotting her next literary adventure. Her writing is fueled by strong coffee, deep conversations, and an insatiable curiosity about people, especially the ones who think they have life all figured out (spoiler: they don’t). When she’s not crafting stories, she’s probably lost in a new city, over analysing text messages, or debating whether to start a PhD just for the fun of it.
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