Ep 65 - Counter-extremism, spoken-word poetry and breaking binaries
Salim is joined by Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan (AKA The Brown Hijabi) on this week's podcast. They discuss Suhaiymah's poetry and journey thus-far, starting out with her (once anonymous) blog: https://thebrownhijabi.com and then talking about her poetry going viral a few years ago and the doors that has opened up for her. They also discuss the recent incident involving Suhaiymah's withdrawal from the Bradford Literary Festival and her thoughts on the government's counter-terrorism/counter-extremism projects and strategy. ---- Suhaiymah has a collection of her poetry coming out soon. You can pre-order your copy here: http://bit.ly/PostcolonialBanter You can find Suhaiymah on Twitter here: http://bit.ly/SuhaiymahTwitter And finally be sure to check out Suhaiymah's own podcast Breaking Binaries here: http://bit.ly/BreakingBinaries --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/themuslimvibe/message
