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“Who are you?” Maryam asks the man between her legs.
“Tabari,” he says, looking up, his black beard glistening from where he has been.
“Tabari who?”
“Tabari the Great Islamic Historian,” he says. He slides back under. Maryam remembers something that troubles her.
“Wait aren’t you the guy who wrote all those horrible things against women? I heard of you in the mosque halaqa. You’re an asshole.” It’s too bad, she thinks. He is doing such a oh such a good job otherwise.
“Aw baby, I’m just misunderstood,” Tabari whimpers.
Mohja Kahf’s column on Sex and the Umma is definitely worth a look.
Link via Kitabkhana, who is relieved to find a woman writer who’s not always riffing on the “oppressed, depressed, repressed” theme.
Who is Laila Lalami
Laila Lalami is the award winning and best selling author of six books.
What books has Laila Lalami written?
Laila has written the novels, Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits, Secret Son, The Moor's Account, The Other Americans, and The Dream Hotel.
What awards has Laila Lalami won?
Laila Lalami has won the American Book Award, the Arab American Book Award, the Hurston-Write Legacy Award, a Guggenheim a Harvard Radcliffe Fellowship, and a British Council Fellowship. Her work has also been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Booker Prize, the Women's Prize, and the Edgar Allan Poe Award.