Islam and Me: Narrating a Diaspora

Author:   Shirin Ramzanali Fazel ,  Simone Brioni ,  Charles Burdett
Publisher:   Rutgers University Press
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Pages:   196
Publication Date:   11 August 2023
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Author:   Shirin Ramzanali Fazel ,  Simone Brioni ,  Charles Burdett
Publisher:   Rutgers University Press
Imprint:   Rutgers University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 12.70cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 20.30cm
Weight:   0.032kg
ISBN:  

9781978835825


ISBN 10:   1978835825
Pages:   196
Publication Date:   11 August 2023
Recommended Age:   From 16 to 99 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Foreword  Charles Burdett An Introduction to a Meticcio Text  Simone Brioni Note on Translation and Alphabetization Shirin Ramzanali Fazel and Simone Brioni Dear Italy My Daily Islam  Birmingham  Islamophobia  Contradictions  A Dialogue on Memory, Perspectives, Belonging, Language, and the Cultural Market  Simone Brioni and Shirin Ramzanali Fazel Coda: A Note about This Collaborative Project  Acknowledgments Notes  References  Notes on Contributors 

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"“In this thought-provoking reflection on belonging, Fazel and Brioni make a powerful argument against damaging Eurocentric representations while demonstrating the generative anti-racist capacity of collaborative knowledge.” -- Heather Merrill * author of Black Spaces: African Diaspora in Italy * ""Shirin Ramzanali Fazel narrates the daily life of diasporic Islam in Europe with deep lucidity and courage. This book shows that Islam has become the religion of European citizens, not just immigrants, and that diasporic Islam is a major test for European constitutional democracy.""  -- Amara Lakhous * author of Divorce Islamic Style * “Deftly blending self-reflection with critical analysis, Fazel and Brioni convincingly challenge the distorted representation of Islam in Europe by offering complex, unapologetic insights into Fazel’s lived experiences as a Somali-Italian Muslim woman.” -- Maya Angela Smith * author of Senegal Abroad: Linguistic Borders, Racial Formations, and Diasporic Imaginaries * “Poetic and autobiographical, Islam and Me examines the intersection of media, memory, and language while questioning traditional models of knowledge. As a Muslim woman in one of the world’s most distinctively Catholic countries, Fazel advocates for transnational belonging, and her witness is for everyone working towards more equitable societies today.” -- Marie Orton * coeditor of Contemporary Italian Diversity in Critical and Fictional Narratives *"


Deftly blending self-reflection with critical analysis, Fazel and Brioni convincingly challenge the distorted representation of Islam in Europe by offering complex, unapologetic insights into Fazel's lived experiences as a Somali-Italian Muslim woman. --Maya Angela Smith author of Senegal Abroad: Linguistic Borders, Racial Formations, and Diasporic Imaginaries (8/29/2022 12:00:00 AM) In this thought-provoking reflection on belonging, Fazel and Brioni make a powerful argument against damaging Eurocentric representations while demonstrating the generative anti-racist capacity of collaborative knowledge. --Heather Merrill author of Black Spaces: African Diaspora in Italy (8/23/2022 12:00:00 AM) Shirin Ramzanali Fazel narrates the daily life of diasporic Islam in Europe with deep lucidity and courage. This book shows that Islam has become the religion of European citizens, not just immigrants, and that diasporic Islam is a major test for European constitutional democracy. --Amara Lakhous author of Divorce Islamic Style (9/20/2022 12:00:00 AM) Poetic and autobiographical, Islam and Me examines the intersection of media, memory, and language while questioning traditional models of knowledge. As a Muslim woman in one of the world's most distinctively Catholic countries, Fazel advocates for transnational belonging, and her witness is for everyone working towards more equitable societies today. --Marie Orton coeditor of Contemporary Italian Diversity in Critical and Fictional Narratives (10/12/2022 12:00:00 AM)


"“In this thought-provoking reflection on belonging, Fazel and Brioni make a powerful argument against damaging Eurocentric representations while demonstrating the generative anti-racist capacity of collaborative knowledge.”— Heather Merrill, author of Black Spaces: African Diaspora in Italy ""Shirin Ramzanali Fazel narrates the daily life of diasporic Islam in Europe with deep lucidity and courage. This book shows that Islam has become the religion of European citizens, not just immigrants, and that diasporic Islam is a major test for European constitutional democracy."" — Amara Lakhous, author of Divorce Islamic Style “Poetic and autobiographical, Islam and Me examines the intersection of media, memory, and language while questioning traditional models of knowledge. As a Muslim woman in one of the world’s most distinctively Catholic countries, Fazel advocates for transnational belonging, and her witness is for everyone working towards more equitable societies today.”— Marie Orton, coeditor of Contemporary Italian Diversity in Critical and Fictional Narratives “Deftly blending self-reflection with critical analysis, Fazel and Brioni convincingly challenge the distorted representation of Islam in Europe by offering complex, unapologetic insights into Fazel’s lived experiences as a Somali-Italian Muslim woman.”— Maya Angela Smith, author of Senegal Abroad: Linguistic Borders, Racial Formations, and Diasporic Imaginaries"


Author Information

SHIRIN RAMZANALI FAZEL is an Italian writer of Somali origins. She has published two collections of poetry, Wings and I Suckled Sweetness, as well as two novels, Far from Mogadishu and Clouds over the Equator, that deal with the effects of Italian colonialism in Somalia and her experience of migration to Italy.    SIMONE BRIONI is an associate professor in the Department of English at Stony Brook University in New York and an affiliated faculty member in the Departments of Africana Studies and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.   

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