A Family Affair: Three Imady Family Members Are MSI Press Authors

We like to think that MSI Press is a family, but sometimes, we have families among our authors. One such family is the Imady family from Damascus, Syria.

Elaine Imady, the mother, met her sweetheart in New York and moved with him to his home country of Syria, where she raised three bicultural children. Her love story is told in Road to Damascus. Read more about Elaine and her book HERE.

  



Muna Imady, the daughter, wrote a beloved and popular book, Syrian Folktales. Not long after, she died following heart surgery, leaving a mostly finished, unpublished book, Damascus amid the War, due out in August 2020. Elaine and daughter #32, Sausan, put the finishing touches on the book, including a touching memorial to Muna that had been published in the New York Times. Read more about Muna, her life, and her books HERE.

Dr. Omar Imady, the son, is a professor of political science who has written a number of fiction and non-fiction books about Syria, Middle Eastern culture, and Islam (namely Sufism). For MSI Press, he wrote the following:

The Gospel of Damascus was a book of the year finalist. This book was later transferred to Villa Magna Press, since MSI decided not to continue with a fiction line. Villa Magna published the book in four languages: English, Arabic, Spanish, and French.

The Rise and Fall of Muslim Civil Society was Omar's dissertation at the University of Pennsylvania, adapted for a lay audience, right before troubled times befell Syria.

When You're Shoved from the Right, Look to Your Left: Metaphors of Islamic Humanism shows those aspects of Omar's personality and interest that parallel his sister's. These short moral stories work for any religion and we know at least one priest who has used them in his homilies for the Catholic Mass.






Read more about Omar and his books HERE.


A family of talented writers, the Imadys, within a family, MSI Press. It bonds us.