Mariam Khan

caught between a rock

I believe the role of the writer is to tell society what it pretends it does not know.

We are the ones we have been waiting for.

Her husband’s first wife had been English, and the English wife taught him all the important English things: how to flambé a Christmas pudding; what defines a good Scotch; and the importance of keeping up appearances when inside you are broken.

calling the shots

Things ‘about’ who we were and who we were supposed to be and how we were supposed to act.

Muslim women are more than burqas, more than hijabs, and more than society has allowed us to be until now.

My Egyptian family had moved to Saudi Arabia when I was fifteen years old, after almost eight years of living in first London and then Glasgow.

Fatema Mernissi, as well as feminists from other parts of the world.

She’d fallen pregnant with a daughter: me.