{"product_id":"islam-and-me-narrating-a-diaspora-paperback","title":"Islam and Me: Narrating a Diaspora - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eShirin Ramzanali Fazel\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eSimone Brioni\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eCharles Burdett\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrowing up in Mogadishu, Somalia, Shirin Ramzanali Fazel was immersed in the language and culture of Italy, Somalia's former colonizer. Yet when she moved to Italy as a young mother in the 1970s, she discovered a country where immigrants and Muslims were viewed with a mixture of curiosity and suspicion­-where, even today, she and her children must seemingly prove they are Italian. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eIslam and Me\u003c\/i\u003e, Fazel tells her story and shares the experiences of other Muslim women living in Italy, revealing the wide variety of Muslim identities and the common prejudices they encounter. Looking at Italian school textbooks, newspapers, and TV programs, she invites us to change the way Muslim immigrants, and especially women, are depicted in both news reports and scholarly research. \u003ci\u003eIslam and Me\u003c\/i\u003e is a meditation on our multireligious, multiethnic, and multilingual reality, as well as an exploration of how we might reimagine national culture and identity so that they become more diverse, inclusive, and anti-racist. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eSHIRIN RAMZANALI FAZEL is an Italian writer of Somali origins. She has published two collections of poetry\u003ci\u003e, Wings\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eI Suckled Sweetness\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as two novels, \u003ci\u003eFar from Mogadishu\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eClouds over the Equator\u003c\/i\u003e, that deal with the effects of Italian colonialism in Somalia and her experience of migration to Italy. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e SIMONE BRIONI is an associate professor in the Department of English at Stony Brook University in New York and an affiliated faculty member in the Departments of Africana Studies and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 196\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 11, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51772489367840,"sku":"9781978835825","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/5d0a10bea5e75cd76bef479249a305c5.webp?v=1780406857","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/islam-and-me-narrating-a-diaspora-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}