Hanifa Deen

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Hanifa Deen (born 1941) is an award-winning Australian writer and a Senior Research Fellow at Monash University.[1] She has described how one of her grandfathers was a Kashmiri who jumped ship in Melbourne, while the other was a Panjabi hawker who came in the wake of the Afghan camel drivers, who helped to facilitate access to the Australian interior.[2] Her non-fiction books have focused on issues concerning Muslim women. Her first book, Caravanserai, portrayed the lives of Australian Muslim women. Her second book, Broken Bangles, focused on Muslim women in South Asia (Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh). The Crescent and the Pen described the journey of Taslima Nasreen, the author of the controversial novel Lajja ("Shame"), after she fled Bangladesh for Europe. [3]

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  1. ^ Hanifa Deen (Web Faculty Bio). Monash University. Retrieved on 2008-02-11.
  2. ^ The Ark on Radio National
  3. ^ The Crescent and the Pen (Web book review). Greenwood Publishing Group. Retrieved on 2008-02-11.

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