This episode is a bit controversial! Sharmeen speaks to poet, writer, and educator Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan about her work. They talk about her experience at Cambridge University as a woman of colour and the impact of Islamophobia and how she thinks it motivates policy-making and new laws. They also discuss how she became a spoken word poet and about her recently published book “Tangled in Terror – Uprooting Islamophobia” which is available now on Pluto Press.
You can read more about Suhaiymah and her work on her website suhaiymah.com and you can find her on Instagram and Twitter as @thebrownhijabi. Here is a link to Suhaiymah’s performance in the poetry slam she mentions in the episode.
You may hear the following Arabic words used in the podcast so here is a little translation:
Alhamdolillah - Praise be to God
Inshallah - God willing
Mashallah - What God has willed
Asalaam-alaikum - Peace be unto you
Walaikum-asalaam - And unto you peace
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