The Things I Would Tell You: British Muslim Women Write
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Overview
Selected as Emma Watson's Jan/Feb 2019 pick for her feminist book club, Our Shared Shelf
A Guardian Best Book of the Year
Shortlisted for London's Big Read
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. Alongside renowned authors such as Kamila Shamsie, Ahdaf Soueif and Leila Aboulela are emerging voices, published here for the first time.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780863561511 |
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| Publisher: | Saqi Books |
| Publication date: | 03/20/2017 |
| Sold by: | Bookwire |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 240 |
| File size: | 532 KB |
About the Author
Novelist, columnist and reviewer Kamila Shamsie was born in Pakistan in 1973 to a family of women writers. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Shamsie is the author of six novels, including Kartography (2002) and Burnt Shadows (2009), which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction. Most recently, A God in Every Stone (2014) was shortlisted for the Baileys Prize, the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction and the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. In 2013, she was included in the Granta list of twenty best young British writers. She grew up in Karachi and now lives in London.
Leila Aboulela is a Sudanese author whose short stories and novels engage with themes of identity, migration and Islamic spirituality. Her work includes The Translated by (1999), which was chosen as a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times, Minaret (2005), and the short story The Museum, which was included in her collection Coloured Lights (2001), for which she was awarded the Caine Prize for African Writing in 2000. A number of her plays have been broadcast by the BBC, and her most recent novel, The Kindness of Enemies, was published in 2015. She now lives in Aberdeen.
Chimene Suleyman is a writer and poet from London, currently living in New York. Her debut poetry collection, Outside Looking On (2014), was included in the Guardian's Best Book List of 2014. She regularly contributes to publications and organisations such as The Independent and Media Diversified concerning race and gender issues, and has performed at events and venues such as the Royal Festival Hall, the Bush Theatre, Secret Garden Party and OutSpoken. She was one of the contributors to the recently published The Good Immigrant (2016), a collection of essays exploring race and identity in contemporary Britain.
Born in Cairo in 1950, Ahdaf Soueif is a novelist and political and cultural commentator. She is the author of a range of both fiction and non-fiction publications, including the bestselling The Map of Love (1999), shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction, and Cairo: My City, Our Revolution (2012), a personal account of the beginnings of the Egyptian Revolution. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a board member of The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights. In 2008, she launched the world's first Palestine Festival of Literature (PalFest), of which she is the Founding Chair.
Selma Dabbagh is a British-Palestinian novelist, blogger, journalist and reviewer. Born in Scotland, she now lives in London. Her work engages with themes such as idealism, rootlessness and political engagement, and the impact of social conformity. Her debut novel, Out of It (2011), which follows a family's experience of besieged Gaza, was nominated for the Guardian Book of the Year in both 2011 and 2012. Her short stories have appeared in various anthologies and publications, and her radio play The Brick was broadcast by the BBC in 2014. Her second book, We Are Here Now, is due for publication in 2017.
Samira Shackle is a freelance British journalist, writing mainly on politi, terrorism and gender with a particular focus on the Indian subcontinent. In 2016, the Words by Women Awards shortlisted Shackle in the Foreign Correspondent category and she was also longlisted in the New Voices category at the One World Media Awards. In 2015, Shackle was awarded the Richard Beeston bursary by The Times newspaper; and in 2014, she was selected as one of MHP's top thirty journalists under 30. Shackle writes for the New Statesman, The Guardian, The Times, Vice and Deutsche Welle, and is Assistant Editor of the New Humanist magazine.
A dual citizen of Britain and Jordan, Fadia Faqir is an award-winning novelist, playwright and short story writer. Her works have been published in eighteen countries and translated into fourteen languages, and include five novels including Pillars of Salt, My Name is Salma and Willow Trees Don't Weep. She is also the editor and co-translator of In the House of Silence: Autobiographical Essays by Arab Women Writers (1998) and was the senior editor of the Arab Women Writers series, for which she received the Women in Publishing 1995 New Venture Award. She was a member of the judging panel of Al-Multaqa Short Story Competition 2016. Fadia Faqir is an Honorary Fellow of St Mary's College and a Writing Fellow at St Aidan's College, Durham University, where she teaches creative writing. She is a co-founder of the Banipal Visiting Writer Fellowship.
Born in Pakistan and raised in Scotland, Imtiaz Dharker is a poet and documentary film-maker. She has published several collections, including Purdah (1989), I speak for the devil (2001), The terrorist at my table (2006) and, most recently, Over the Moon (2014). In recognition of her work, she was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 2014. Much of her poetry explores themes of identity and gender politi, geographical and cultural displacement, and the ramifications of the culture of purdah. She is an accomplished artist, and her pen-and-ink drawings have been featured in ten solo exhibitions across the world, including India, Hong Kong and the UK.
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