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    The Things I Would Tell You: British Muslim Women Write

    By Leila Aboulela, Kamila Shamsie, Ahdaf Soueif and

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    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.

    Editor's Note

    Book club pick…

    This anthology was the first pick of 2019 for Emma Watson’s Our Shared Shelf book club. Watson’s January/February pick amplifies marginalized Muslim voices at a great time of need, with Brexit on the horizon and misinformation about Islam spreading rapidly.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSaqi Books
    Release dateApr 3, 2017
    ISBN9780863561511
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    Leila Aboulela

    Leila Aboulela was born in Cairo, grew up in Khartoum and moved to Aberdeen in her mid-twenties. She is the author of five novels, Bird Summons, The Translator, a New York Times 100 Notable Books of the Year, The Kindness of Enemies, Minaret and Lyrics Alley, Fiction Winner of the Scottish Book Awards. She was the first winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing, and her short story collection, Elsewhere, Home, won the Saltire Fiction Book of the Year Award. Her work has been translated into fifteen languages and she was longlisted three times for the Orange Prize for Fiction (now the Women’s Prize). Her plays The Insider, The Mystic Life and others were broadcast on BBC Radio, and her fiction included in publications such as Freeman’s, Granta and Harper’s Magazine.

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    • 5/5
      From Lebanon to Pakistan, there is a whole host of female Muslim voices in this wonderful pioneering collection.

      Some of the stand out stories, essays and poems include a man reconnecting with art through a woman's eyes, to political stories about the apartheid state of Palestine, so-called "honour crimes", and the illegal war in Iraq. The writers involved are award-winning authors such as Kamila Shamsie, actors, and even a young 15 year old poet - all based in the UK.

      It avoids stereotypes and instead advocates quite a humanist outlook on femininity - that a person is complex, with a full range of emotions rather than just the standard media portrayal. A wonderful plethora of diversity.