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Book Review: Wafa Darwish’s Memoir, Not Done With Life Yet

Posted by Shereen Malherbe on 02 Nov 2016 / 0 Comments

I recently discovered Not Done With Life Yet on my bookshelf and I was surprised it had hidden itself away from me for the last year. I received it as a gift from my cousin on my last trip to Palestine. She handed it to me at the end of my trip when I had […]

To read is to travel: The rise of the Muslim woman’s memoir

Posted by Guest Contributor on 17 Aug 2009 / 0 Comments

This was written by Tasnim, and originally published at AltMuslimah. The post-9 /11 period has seen a proliferation of texts on the Muslim world which fall under the genre of the travel narrative. In recent years this has included a wave of personal accounts by journalists reporting the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, such as […]