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Tasnia Chowdhury
- Mar 13
5 Incredible Books by Muslim Authors You Have to Read This Year
The older I got, the more reading became a chore. While the world was getting swallowed up by a pandemic, politicians and panic buyers, I...

Bochra Boudarka
- Mar 9
Review: Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson
Caleb Azumah Nelson's magnificent debut novel is nothing short of a triumph. A book that reminded me that words are there to make you...

Parmis Vafapour
- Aug 21, 2021
Distorted Body Image and My Period Explained
It is no shock to many people who menstruate that we experience a distorted body image during different stages of our period. We often...

Bochra Boudarka
- Aug 1, 2021
Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
This Japanese novel follows Keiko Furukura, a thirty-six year old woman who has worked in a convenience store for the past eighteen...

Dolly Sharma
- Jun 6, 2021
Of Indian Women, Class and Sexuality: Examining The Short Stories of Shashi Deshpande
Feminism has been defined by scholars in a manner that it stands responsive to the varied geographical settings and thereby their...

Asia Khatun
- Apr 30, 2021
Literature is Still Catering for The Orientalist Gaze: White Saviour Complex and The Muslim Woman
If Muslim men are depicted as being inherently violent, be it due to their non-Western culture and their backwards religion, then this in...

Bochra Boudarka
- Apr 4, 2021
Review: The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Daré
I want more than just a voice, I want a louding voice. I want to enter a room and people will hear me even before I open my mouth to be...

Bochra Boudarka
- Mar 9, 2021
Review: When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
This book is about life and it’s ending. At the age of thirty-six, Paul Kalanithi is diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer just as he is...

Asia Khatun
- Mar 2, 2021
Literature is Still Catering for The Orientalist Gaze Part Two: Muslim Masculinity and Violence
The art of characterisation is a quintessential part of making one’s protagonists compelling in the eyes of an audience. Masculinity is...

Bochra Boudarka
- Feb 27, 2021
Review: This Blinding Absence of Light by Tahar Ben Jelloun
'Most of those who died did not die of hunger but of hatred. Feeling hatred diminishes you. It eats at you from within and attacks the...

Bochra Boudarka
- Jan 29, 2021
Review: City of Brass by S. A. Chakraborty
The first in the Daevabad trilogy, this book is told from the perspectives of two characters: Nahri and Alizayd. Nahri lives as an...

Tooba Kazmi
- Jan 27, 2021
Critical Review: Twilight of Democracy by Anne Applebaum
Twilight of Democracy: The Failure of Politics and the Parting of Friends by Anne Applebaum explores the rise of populism and nationalist...

Asia Khatun
- Jan 25, 2021
Literature is Still Catering for The Orientalist Gaze
Photograph: Les Femmes Du Maroc by Lalla Essaydi The neo-colonial nature of the Western world’s foreign policy regarding the Middle East...