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Welcome
Listed
below are two of my favourite quotes. You might find them a
useful reference as you begin your investigation into the
nooks and crannies of my website:
‘If
one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found
out.’
(Oscar Wilde)
‘Myth
is a genre between fairy tale and a detective story.’
(Nadine Gordimer)
I
do hope that not too many ‘secrets’, or djinns,
have escaped from the bottle (as djinns have a habit of
doing) and that the image of the struggling writer, which
I’ve spent years trying to create—when I should have been
writing—isn’t irrevocably damaged.
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NEW
BOOK OUT NOW
Ali
Abdul v The King
Muslim
stories from the dark days of White Australia
Read
the first review...
"Our National Archive is like
an Aladdin’s cave – find the right password and it
swings open to reveal its treasures and its
secrets."
Mahomet
Allum, wonder herbalist and ladies’ man, bush battler
Ali Abdul, the feisty Afghan Rock men, and Sam the
republican pearl diver, are some of Deen’s men from
the archives. Others call them troublemakers and
‘lustful aliens’. Unwelcome and a threat to
Australian workers, these are the dark
‘Strangers in the days of the White Australia Policy,
when race was used to classify people and bar them from
entering the country.
But
Deen immediately feels a connection to these men with
dark skins and turbans as she also recalls the lives of
her Kashmiri and Punjabi grandfathers.
This
wonderful collection of narratives combines storytelling
with history and nostalgia as Deen takes the reader back
into Australia’s past. These fascinating stories may
even help explain some of the moral ambiguities and
strange ironies that trouble us today.
University
of Western Australia Publishers
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NEW
Online Magazine - Available NOW!
Sultana's
Dream
Sultana's
Dream - a new online magazine
written and produced by Australian Muslim women.
Issue 3, April 2012.
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HANIFA DEEN is an award-winning Australian author who writes narrative nonfiction and lives in
Melbourne. She now works full-time as a writer, which
she sees as the perfect medium for a woman with an irreverent tongue, a
maverick Muslim perspective on life, and a passion to subvert stereotypes
wherever they lurk.
Deen has held a number of high
profile positions in a career
spanning twenty-three years in human rights, ethnic affairs, and
immigration, including:
- Hearing Commissioner with the Human Rights and
Equal Opportunity Commission of Australia
- Deputy Commissioner of
Multicultural Affairs Western Australia
- Director on the Board of Special
Broadcasting Services (SBS) Corporation
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If you would like Hanifa
Deen to speak at a festival, library, school or
conference/corporate event, please contact:
Booked
Out Speakers Agency
Australia-wide
speakers agency for writers, artists and thinkers
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Email: bookings@bookedout.com.au
Phone: 03
9824 0177
FAX: 03 9824 0677
PO Box 580
South Yarra VIC 3141
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