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Mohja Kahf
Mohja Kahf is associate
professor of comparative literature in the Middle East & Islamic Studies
Program at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, and author of
Western Representations of the Muslim Woman and a book of poetry,
Emails from Scheherazad. Her novel, The Girl in the Tangerine
Scarf (2006, Carroll & Graf), is the coming-of-age story of a Muslim
American woman at the intersection of Islamic dress and bad 1970s
polyester. Her article, “Braiding the Stories: Women’s Eloquence in the
Early Islamic Era” appears in Gisela Webb, Windows of Faith: Muslim
Women’s Scholarship and Activism, and essays in Living Islam Out
Loud, Arab American Feminisms, and Shattering the Stereotypes:
Muslim Women Speak Out. |
