Safar: Muslim Women's Stories of Travel and Transformation
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Description
Safar: Muslim Women's Stories of Travel and Transformation is a beautifully illustrated gift book that explores the emotional and spiritual aspects of journeying. Through a series of interviews with Muslim women from diverse backgrounds, Australian journalist Sarah Malik considers personal growth and self-knowledge in the context of travel.
Safar is the Urdu and Arabic word for 'journey'. Whether it be travelling to a new country or a new locale, or how these experiences affect the way Muslim women perceive and understand the world, Sarah weaves together her own experiences of travel with the thoughts and feelings of women who share their own adventures and challenges. There are fascinating stories of love and friendship, as well as stories of how travel connects to roots, spirituality, confidence, identity, privilege and inspiration.
Featuring stunning illustrations by Amani Haydar, this is an important and loving book that centres the experiences and perspectives of Muslim women, offering insights for readers from all backgrounds.
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Safar is the Urdu and Arabic word for 'journey'. Whether it be travelling to a new country or a new locale, or how these experiences affect the way Muslim women perceive and understand the world, Sarah weaves together her own experiences of travel with the thoughts and feelings of women who share their own adventures and challenges. There are fascinating stories of love and friendship, as well as stories of how travel connects to roots, spirituality, confidence, identity, privilege and inspiration.
Featuring stunning illustrations by Amani Haydar, this is an important and loving book that centres the experiences and perspectives of Muslim women, offering insights for readers from all backgrounds.
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Product details
- Hardback | 168 pages
- 138 x 216 x 20.32mm | 490g
- 03 Jan 2023
- Hardie Grant Explore
- Australia
- English
- Full colour throughout
- 1741177766
- 9781741177763
- 33,478
About Sarah Malik
Sarah Malik is a Walkley-award-winning Australian investigative journalist, SBS presenter and avid traveller. Her work focuses on asylum, religion, surveillance, technology and its intersection with gender and race - most notably examining domestic violence, gender inequality and migration. She has lived in Jordan and slept under the desert stars in a Bedouin camp in Wadi Ram, climbed Asia's highest peak Mount Kinabalu in Borneo and Malaysia, and travelled to over a dozen countries including Japan, Turkey, Palestine, Pakistan, India and much of Europe. Sarah graduated from the University of Technology, Sydney, with degrees in law and journalism. She began her career as a cadet journalist and reporter for the Australian Associated Press and has also worked as a journalism lecturer and teacher at Monash and Sydney universities.
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