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It’s Not About the Burqa

✍ Scribed by Khan, Mariam

Book ID
110510452
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Tongue
English
Weight
334 KB
Category
Fiction

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✦ Synopsis

When was the last time you heard a Muslim woman speak for herself without a filter?

’Engrossing . . . fascinating . . . courageous’ Observer

In 2016, Mariam Khan read that David Cameron had linked the radicalization of Muslim men to the ’traditional submissiveness’ of Muslim women. Mariam felt pretty sure she didn’t know a single Muslim woman who would describe herself that way. Why was she hearing about Muslim women from people who were neither Muslim, nor female?

Years later the state of the national discourse has deteriorated even further, and Muslim women’s voices are still pushed to the fringes – the figures leading the discussion are white and male.

Taking one of the most politicized and misused words associated with Muslim women and Islamophobia, It’s Not About the Burqa is poised to change all that. Here are voices you won’t see represented in the national news headlines: seventeen Muslim women speaking...

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