The American Muslim Teenager's Handbook: writing from experience.

• Position: ISLAM - Brief article

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]

With her Pakistani surname and dark skin, 18-year-old Yasmine Hafiz--a Muslim who grew up in Arizona--is used to scrutiny from airport security. Most recently, it was because of a metal object in her carry-on bag: the medal she had just received from President Bush as one of 139 Presidential Scholars. This is the kind of situation that Hafiz is trying to address in The American Muslim Teenager's Handbook, published last year. Now a freshman at Yale, Hafiz wrote the book with her mother, Ditara, and her brother...