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A review by tasleemreads
The Things I Would Tell You: British Muslim Women Write by Sabrina Mahfouz
funny
informative
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
The things I Would Tell You is an anthology written about the realities of being a British Muslim woman. I enjoyed the mixture between poetry, essays, short stories and a play. The work in this book does not conform to a single theme and instead touches on multiple areas of interest; culture, gender, romance, abuse, identity, to name a few.
I fell in love with this book because I read pieces about myself, my childhood, my upbringing within the pages and also learnt from Muslim women who expressed struggles different to my own. Each voice in this book, being from a different age and ethnicity, speaks on their experience of being a Muslim woman having lived in Britain and of course, there is so much variety between each writer. I definitely recommend this book to everyone!
So many great pieces within this book and some of my highlights below:
✨Seema Begum's poem 'Uomini Cadranno' which she wrote when she was 14 years old!
✨Shaista Aziz 'Blood and Broken Bodies' is a powerful piece that begs Pakistani brothers and fathers to look at themselves, and not God, when they honour kill.
✨Hibaq Osman 'Thing Things I Would Tell You and other poems' expresses what it's like growing up the children of immigrants.
✨Azra Tabassum 'Brown Girl and other poems' is everything I wanted to hear growing up.
I will definitely be checking out other works from writers I've discovered within this book!
I fell in love with this book because I read pieces about myself, my childhood, my upbringing within the pages and also learnt from Muslim women who expressed struggles different to my own. Each voice in this book, being from a different age and ethnicity, speaks on their experience of being a Muslim woman having lived in Britain and of course, there is so much variety between each writer. I definitely recommend this book to everyone!
So many great pieces within this book and some of my highlights below:
✨Seema Begum's poem 'Uomini Cadranno' which she wrote when she was 14 years old!
✨Shaista Aziz 'Blood and Broken Bodies' is a powerful piece that begs Pakistani brothers and fathers to look at themselves, and not God, when they honour kill.
✨Hibaq Osman 'Thing Things I Would Tell You and other poems' expresses what it's like growing up the children of immigrants.
✨Azra Tabassum 'Brown Girl and other poems' is everything I wanted to hear growing up.
I will definitely be checking out other works from writers I've discovered within this book!