Encompassing Crescent, an online monthly magazine aimed at exploring the Muslim world and facilitating interfaith dialogue, has generously invited me to write an article on Islamophobia.
Following on the months of research and interviews I compiled and the multiple books read in preparation for my novel, my topic of choice will be dismantling Islamophobic stereotypes of the docile, unambiguously oppressed Muslim woman. I'll keep everyone updated as I go, and will post a link to the article when complete.
“Companions of the Garden,” my as-yet unpublished novel, chronicles the friendship of two wayfaring New Yorkers on a road trip to New Orleans - a Muslim woman and a non-Muslim man, both young, both American, and both hungry to challenge the social norms in which both feel constrained. Through this blog, I hope not only to generate interest in the book itself, but also the issues it seeks to address: those of gender, religion, and national identity, and the role of the spirit in an age of flux.
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Wonderful and exciting news, Micah! Congratulations!
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