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The Things I Would Tell You: British Muslim Women Write

Availability: In Stock
ISBN: 9780863561467
AuthorMahfouz, Sabrina
Pub Date20/03/2017
BindingPaperback
Pages320
CountryGBR
Dewey828.91408
Publisher: Saqi Books
Quick overview Unique anthology celebrating British women writers from a Muslim heritage. Writers include literary heavyweights such as Adhaf Soueif, Leila Aboulela and Kamila Shamsie, as well as young emerging artists leading the way on the UK's spoken word scene. Extensive PR campaign planned for publication.
€14.97

Selected as Emma Watson's Jan/Feb 2019 pick for her feminist book club, Our Shared Shelf
Shortlisted for London's Big Read
A Guardian Best Book of the Year
Longlisted for The People's Book Prize

From established literary heavyweights to emerging spoken word artists, the writers in this ground-breaking collection blow away the narrow image of the 'Muslim Woman'.

Hear from users of Islamic Tinder, a disenchanted Maulana working as a TV chat show host and a plastic surgeon blackmailed by MI6. Follow the career of an actress with Middle-Eastern heritage whose dreams of playing a ghostbuster spiral into repeat castings as a jihadi bride. Among stories of honour killings and ill-fated love in besieged locations, we also find heart-warming connections and powerful challenges to the status quo.

From Algiers to Brighton, these stories transcend time and place revealing just how varied the search for belonging can be.

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Selected as Emma Watson's Jan/Feb 2019 pick for her feminist book club, Our Shared Shelf
Shortlisted for London's Big Read
A Guardian Best Book of the Year
Longlisted for The People's Book Prize

From established literary heavyweights to emerging spoken word artists, the writers in this ground-breaking collection blow away the narrow image of the 'Muslim Woman'.

Hear from users of Islamic Tinder, a disenchanted Maulana working as a TV chat show host and a plastic surgeon blackmailed by MI6. Follow the career of an actress with Middle-Eastern heritage whose dreams of playing a ghostbuster spiral into repeat castings as a jihadi bride. Among stories of honour killings and ill-fated love in besieged locations, we also find heart-warming connections and powerful challenges to the status quo.

From Algiers to Brighton, these stories transcend time and place revealing just how varied the search for belonging can be.

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