Hanifa Deen
Hanifa Deen is an award-winning third generation Australian writer, originally of Pakistani ancestry.[1]. She has described how one of her grandfathers was a Kashmiri who jumped ship in Melbourne, while the other was a Punjabi small business man who came in the wake of the Afghan camel drivers, who helped to facilitate access to the Australian interior.[2] Her non-fiction books have focused on issues concerning Muslims. Her first book, Caravanserai, portrayed the lives of Australian Muslims. Her second book, Broken Bangles, focused on Muslim women in South Asia (Pakistan and Bangladesh). The Crescent and the Pen described the author's journey on the trail of Taslima Nasreen, the author of the controversial novel Lajja ("Shame"), after she fled Bangladesh for Europe. [3] Deen's most recent book is 'The Jihad Seminar' about Melbourne's first religious hate speech case, published in 2008 (UWA Press).
[edit] References
- ^ Hanifa Deen - The 'M' Word
- ^ The Ark on Radio National
- ^ "The Crescent and the Pen" (Web book review). Greenwood Publishing Group. http://www.greenwood.com/catalog/C9167.aspx. Retrieved 2008-02-11.
[edit] External links
- Works by or about Hanifa Deen in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
- Hanifa Deen on the Muslim fatigue (video)
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