The Flirtation of Girls / Ghazal el-Banat by Sara Saleh

The Flirtation of Girls / Ghazal el-Banat by Sara SalehA stunning collection from Sydney poet, human rights activist, community organiser, and refugee campaigner Sara M Saleh. With her first full length poetry collection, Sara M Saleh introduces us to the polychromatic lives of girls and women as they come into being amidst war, colonial and patriarchal violence, and exile and migration. This searing work interrogates and represents the complexity of Arab Australian Muslim women's identities as they

General Alwany is a pious man who loves his family

So many things can go wrong on a play date

it will take all of Meixing's bravery to find her place of belonging in this new world

their doppelgangers

Blending key theoretical and practical questions

a neutral region lying between two warring kingdoms

and their self-image

by way of China

It aches under the heat of summer

One of the most-loved and biggest-selling literary novels in Australian history

and teaching us how to change that

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