It's Not About the Burqa by Mariam Khan

It's Not About the Burqa

Mariam Khan with Mona Eltahawy (Contributor), Coco Khan (Contributor), Sufiya Ahmed (Contributor), Nafisa Bakkar (Contributor), Afia Ahmed (Contributor), Yassmin Abdel-Magied (Contributor), Jamilla Hekmoun (Contributor), Mariam Khan (Contributor), Afshan D'souza-Lodhi (Contributor), Salma Haidrani (Contributor), Mariam Khan, Amna Saleem (Contributor), Saima Mir (Contributor), Salma El-Wardany (Contributor), Aina Khan OBE (Contributor), Raifa Rafiq (Contributor), Malia Bouattia (Contributor), Nadine Aisha Jassat (Contributor)

272 pages first pub 2019 (editions)

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

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informative 92%
reflective 75%
inspiring 56%
challenging 36%
emotional 34%
hopeful 25%
funny 10%
sad 5%
lighthearted 2%
dark 1%
tense 1%

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