E-mails from Scheherazad

Abstract

In her poetry, Mohja Kahf skillfully weaves details from her lived reality with a global, transnational vision. She challenges stereotypes about Muslim women, the Arab world, America, and the Middle East, in a style marked by humor, anger, and confrontation. In addition to her poetry collection,
E-mails from Scheherazad, Kahf is the author of one novel, short stories, creative non-fiction,
essays, and literary criticism. Kahf also contributes poems and essays to the web site Muslim
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