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Book Review: Rughum & Najda by Samar Habib


Posted by nicole on 08 May 2012 / 0 Comments
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Rughum & Najda by Samar Habib is a fictional love story set in ninth-century Baghdad. Rughum, a Muslim woman, meets Najda, a witch who was raised with a Manichean family. Rughum and Najda’s love story is the main story around the stories of several lesbian (or “tharifa”) women in the book. Besides Rughum and Najda, […]

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