Table of Contents
Introduction 7
Under the Cypress Tree Fadia Faqir 15
Home, to a Man and other poems Amina Jama 30
Cutting Someone's Heart Out with a Spoon Chimene Suleyrnan 37
Us 44
Sentence and other poems Aliyah Hasinah Holder 48
The Girl Next Door Kamila Shamsie 55
The Right Word and other poems Imtiaz Dharker 74
Islamic Under Triska Hamid 81
This Body Is Woman Nafeesa Hamid 85
Mezzaterra Ahdat Soueif 96
Uomini Cadranno Seema Begum 110
The Insider Leila Aboulela 113
Fallujah, Basrah and other poems Shazea Quraishi 150
Blood and Broken Bodies Shaista Aziz 157
Stand By Me Miss L 162
Staying Alive Through Brexit: Racism, Mental Health and Emotional Labour Aisha Mirza 166
The Things I Would Tell You and other poems Hibaq Osman 171
Brown Girl and other poems Azra Tabassum 181
Take Me There Selma Dabbagh 187
Last Assignment to Jenin 192
Belongings and other poems Asma Elbadawi 201
My Other Half Samira Shackle 205
Battleface Sabrina Mahfouz 214
An Eye That Sees Hanan al-Shaykh 234
Biographies 243
Credits 251