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Book Review: The Tower by Shereen Malherbe


Posted by sarabi on 10 Apr 2019 / 0 Comments
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Content Warning: bombings, death, mass shooting. With the the three-year anniversary of Jasmine Falling just around the corner, author Shereen Malherbe has graced us with The Tower, her second novel. Here’s the blurb from her website: “Reem is a Syrian refugee who has arrived in London, trying to discover the whereabouts of her 10-year old […]

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Taking Back the Narrative, One Panel at a Time


Posted by Fatin Marini on 19 Feb 2019 / 0 Comments
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The publishing world is slowly coming around to the fact that stories are more authentic when they are written by the people living them. 2018 thankfully continued to give us female Muslim characters in children’s fiction, young adult and adult fiction. This year is looking to give us even more. Huda Fahmy’s Yes, I’m Hot […]

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Ramadhan book club: Salam Maria


Posted by Guest Contributor on 24 Sep 2008 / 0 Comments
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This was written by Cycads and was originally published at her blog. Since it’s Ramadhan, I thought it might be quite appropriate that I have a special religious feature in my feminist/Malay lit blog. So in today’s post I’d like bring to your attention a little known novel by Fatimah Busu, Salam Maria (or Hail […]

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