Reading: Shattering the Stereotypes-Muslim Women Speak Out

Reading: Shattering the Stereotypes: Muslim Women Speak Out with Editor
Fawzia Afzal-Khan and Nawal El Saadawi

Thursday, June 16th, 7PM – Free
Bluestockings Books
172 Allen Street (in the LES)

Ethnically and attitudinally diverse, the texts in Shattering the
Stereotypes offer a rounded portrayal of what it is to be a Muslim woman in the 21st century. Through essays, poetry, fiction, memoir, plays, and artwork, Muslim women speak for themselves, revealing a complexity of experience and thought that escapes most Western portrayals. Shattering the Stereotypes breaks open the poetic, complex, visionary, luscious, surprising, fierce, and uncompromising world of the women of Islam.

- Eve Ensler

Fawzia Afzal Khan, Professor of English at Montclair State U. (NJ), is a
scholar/critic, poet, memoirist and playwright.
Nawal El Saadawi is a novelist, a psychiatrist and a writer.