Hanifa Deen
Hanifa Deen is an Australian writer, of Pakistani ancestry.[1][2] 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.[3]
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.[4] Deen's 2008 book, "The Jihad Seminar" is about Melbourne's first religious hate speech case, (UWA Press). 'Ali Abdul vs The King' was published in 2011 by UWA publishers. In 2013 "The Crescent and the Pen" was extensively rewritten and released as "On the Trail of Taslima" in paperback by Indian Ocean Press.
Caravansserai won the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Ethnic Affairs Commission Award in 1996, and The Jihad Seminar was short-listed for the 2008 Human Rights Awards — Literature Non-Fiction Award.[5]
References
- ↑ Hanifa Deen – The 'M' Word
- ↑ Borghino, Jose (20 August 2011). "Multiculturalism: the good, the bad, the ugly, the tragic". The Australian. Retrieved 3 August 2015.
- ↑ The Ark on Radio National
- ↑ "The Crescent and the Pen" (Web book review). Greenwood Publishing Group. Retrieved 11 February 2008.
- ↑ http://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A83826
External links
- Author's website
- Editor of "Sultana's Dream" first online magazine produced and written by Australian Muslim women.
- Works by or about Hanifa Deen in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
- Hanifa Deen on the Muslim fatigue (video)
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