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y separately published work icon Good Muslim Boy single work   autobiography  
Issue Details: First known date: 2015... 2015 Good Muslim Boy
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'Good Muslim Boy is Osamah Sami's true depiction of his life as a young Muslim man. From his early life with his family in Iran during the Iran/​Iraq war, to their migration to Australia, his tale is in turns comic and tragic, and explores the universal truths of growing up, falling in love and marriage, family and following one's dream.' (Source: TROVE)

Adaptations

y separately published work icon Good Muslim Boy Osamah Sami , Janice Muller , 2018 13738914 2018 single work drama

'What does it mean to be a good Muslim boy? You probably shouldn’t gawk at girls in bikinis or fake a medical degree. If you must be an actor, you shouldn’t play a gay man on television, or Saddam Hussein in a post 9/11 American musical. And you definitely, definitely shouldn’t leave an arranged bride at the altar.

'Meet Osamah Sami. He’s done all of the above. Interesting, considering his father is one of the leading Islamic clerics in Australia, having pulled his family out of war-torn Iran to settle in suburban Melbourne.

'But when his kindly and unorthodox dad dies suddenly during a trip to Iran, Osamah must grapple with an inscrutable and corrupt bureaucracy in his fight to bring his father’s body home to Australia – all the while looking back on his life in a haunting, hilarious and heart-wrenching retrospective.'

Source: Queensland Theatre Company.

Notes

  • Dedication: For my father - my confidant, friend and absolute hero.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Hardie Grant Books , 2015 .
      image of person or book cover 3095816770186619798.jpg
      Image courtesy of publisher's website.
      Extent: xii, 259p.
      Description: illus.
      Note/s:
      • Published 15 May 2015
      ISBN: 9781742706153 (pbk)
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Other Formats

  • Also sound recording.
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Works about this Work

[Review] Good Muslim Boy Diana Carroll , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 22 August 2015; (p. 32)
— Review of Good Muslim Boy Osamah Sami , 2015 single work autobiography
Cross-cultural Meanderings Shakira Hussein , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 25-26 July 2015; (p. 22)
— Review of Good Muslim Boy Osamah Sami , 2015 single work autobiography
It's Mad, Mad World Chris Hook , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 11 July 2015; (p. 11)
— Review of Good Muslim Boy Osamah Sami , 2015 single work autobiography
It's Mad, Mad World Chris Hook , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 11 July 2015; (p. 11)
— Review of Good Muslim Boy Osamah Sami , 2015 single work autobiography
Cross-cultural Meanderings Shakira Hussein , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 25-26 July 2015; (p. 22)
— Review of Good Muslim Boy Osamah Sami , 2015 single work autobiography
[Review] Good Muslim Boy Diana Carroll , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 22 August 2015; (p. 32)
— Review of Good Muslim Boy Osamah Sami , 2015 single work autobiography
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    Iran,
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    Middle East, Asia,
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    Middle East, Asia,
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