Since I moved back to Turkey, I’ve been meaning to re-read Turkish American writer Selma Ekrem’s Unveiled: The Autobiography of a Turkish Girl (1930). And I was able to last weekend. Ironically, the first time I read
Reading is an intricate part of Islam. The first chapter of the Quran to be revealed, Surah Iqra, and the circumstances surrounding its revelation is a clear pointer to this. Hence, seeking knowledge through reading
It’s set so close to home; in the British Pakistani diaspora community of Bradford from 1993-2020. The characters are so lovingly familiar, as are the authentic descriptions of them and the Bradford architecture —that with