ISBN 1-59008-004-1
252 pages (6x9)
Available from:
Amana Publications  www.amana-publications.com 
www.amazon.com  
For local (Ottawa) readers :
The Ottawa Mosque library/bookstore

Islamic Information and Education Centre
312 Lisgar St., Ottawa, 
Phone:    613-232--0210    

Dr. Ekram Beshir

Dr. Ekram Beshir is a medical doctor by profession, with a background in child psychology. She helped establish both Rahma School, a weekend Arabic and Islamic school, and Abraar full time Islamic school in Ottawa. She is the recipient of the Director's Citation Award of the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board for the year 2000. She has been very active with the Muslim community in Ottawa in the areas of study circles, children and youth camps, sisters programs, and marriage counseling. She has traveled extensively to various parts of the world to present parenting workshops. She has also authored other books for teaching Arabic to Muslim children living in Non-Arab speaking countries.

Mohamed Rida Beshir

Mohamed Rida Beshir is an engineer by profession, working with Nortel Networks in Ottawa Canada. He has over 25 years of experience in Da'wa work in North America and has held various positions with MSA and ISNA on both national and local levels. Currently, he is a board member of Human Concern International. He is a member of the training and development department of the Muslim American Society (MAS). He is a regular speaker in ISNA, ICNA, MSA and MAYA English programs. He is actively developing and delivering training programs to various Muslim communities in North America as well as in South America in the areas of Time Management from an Islamic perspective, strategic planning, tarbiya programs, etc. He has traveled extensively all over the world, participating in various Islamic workshops and programs.
    

The Beshirs of Ottawa respond to the needs of North American Muslim parents with their new book on Parenting teens.

" The book  contains 10 chapters. The first two chapters deal with understanding the nature of teenage years and the environment teenagers live in with emphasis on the North American teenage culture and shows very clearly how different it is from our Islamic values. It goes on to list some of the challenges facing our Muslim teens in this society and provides some shocking statistics related to the subject, with the hope that parents will realize the seriousness of the issue and be careful in the way they handle it. The next four chapters are devoted to the solutions of our teens problems providing ample guidelines and practical principles deducted from Qura'n and teachings of Prophet Muhammad PBUH.

The next two chapters analyze typical case studies and real life problems our teens are facing and provides the proper solution for each case.

        Chapter nine provides simple tools to help parents help and support their teens in the face of the intimidating environment they live in.  It also provides tools to help parents reduce the amount of peer pressure their teens are facing. These tools are particularly useful for teens attending the public school system. They include samples of letters that parents should send to school administration prior to various Islamic celebrations or events such as the beginning of Ramadan, Eid-ul Fitr, Eid-ul Adha, etc.

Finally, in chapter ten, the book presents the reader with a variety of positive teen experience. These are real life experience lived by our teens. The teens relate these experiences in their own writing. We feel that it is very important to the reader to realize that, if we as parents try our best to use the proper Islamic ways of tarbiya with our children, the good results, with the help of Allah SWT, are guaranteed."

Dr. Ekram and Mohamed Rida Beshir co-authored Meeting the Challenge of Parenting in the West, an Islamic Perspective. They are members of the editorial board of The American Muslim magazine and are regular contributors to its parenting section. They have also written articles for Islamic Horizons and The Message magazines.