Synopsis
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.
Sabrina Mahfouz is a British Egyptian playwright, poet and screenwriter. She was awarded the 2014 Fringe First Award for her play Chef and her play Clean transferred to New York in 2014. Her poetry has been performed and produced for TV, radio and film, including in the recent Railway Nation: A Journey in Verse on BBC2. Mahfouz has an essay in the award-winning The Good Immigrant and has published eight works of drama with Bloomsbury. She lives in London.
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.
Sabrina Mahfouz is a British Egyptian playwright, poet and screenwriter. She was awarded the 2014 Fringe First Award for her play Chef and her play Clean transferred to New York in 2014. Her poetry has been performed and produced for TV, radio and film, including in the recent Railway Nation: A Journey in Verse on BBC2. Mahfouz has an essay in the award-winning The Good Immigrant and has published eight works of drama with Bloomsbury. She lives in London.
Titre original : The things I would Tell you: British Muslim women write (2017)
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2 éditions pour ce livre
2017 
Editions Saqi Books
256 pages
ISBN : 9780863561467
2017 Editions Saqi Books
3366 pages
Format : AZW
ISBN : 9780863561467
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Bien sûr il est important de donner la parole à ces femmes qui ne l'ont pas toujours mais j'ai également été déçue par cette lecture. Bien rythmée entre la poésie la prose et l'essai on a néanmoins du mal à accrocher parce que les écrits sont très inégaux. Mention spéciale pour Chimene Suleyman Kamila Shamsie Nafeesa Hamid Seema Begun et Hadaf Soueif.
Je l'ai lu après avoir vu qu'il était le livre du mois de janvier du book club d'Emma Watson, mais vraiment je suis assez déçue. Avoir plusieurs histoires écrites par plusieurs personnes: oui. Mais j'ai vraiment eu du mal à saisir le sens de certaines alors que d'autres étaient claires. Mais c'est tellement intéressant de donner la parole à ces femmes qui ne l'ont pas toujours!