Mico, Texas
amina al sherif.
nadiri, a novel pt I
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nadiri, a novel pt I ☆
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Follow Hagar Khalifa as she navigates growing up between two worlds. Caught between an American Christian mother and an Egyptian Muslim father, Hagar searches for her identity as she navigates the public Egyptian school system and subsequently the private American one. As she explores the two worlds, she discovers her ambition to immigrate to the United States and join the US Army. As she navigates extreme challenges of growing up between these two worlds, join Hagar in the second novel of the Nadiri series to discover her journey as she becomes a US Army officer, joins a university in the deep American south, and commissions as an Arab American during the Arab Spring and the rise of the so-called Islamic State.
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Amina Al Sherif is the author of the Nadiri fiction series. Originally from Cairo Egypt, she immigrated to the United States in 2010 as a first generation Arab-American and African American. Amina is a member of the LGBTQ+ community as well as a BIPOC writer.
Amina has worked with the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) for over ten years as a United States Army officer. She has deployed to Baghdad, Iraq, Northern Syria, Turkey, Israel and Palestine, as well as Afghanistan supporting the Special Operations Community.
A graduate of Penn State University, Amina holds a BA in Linguistics and Arabic from the University of Mississippi and a Masters in Professional Studies in Cybersecurity and Information Sciences.
Amina regularly blogs on Medium documenting her self-taught technical career, and maintains a literary blog on her website. In January 2020, she published her first book An Approach to Machine Learning in Cyber Defense for the Department of Defense. In November of 2023, Amina published her first Young Adult Fiction work, Nadiri: Part I with Black Rose Writing.
Amina currently lives in San Antonio, Texas with her daughter, her mother, and hairless cat. By day, Amina leads Generative AI for Google Cloud’s Public Sector practice. She is an aspiring professor and DPhil candidate, and regularly guest lectures at American universities around the country and in Texas.