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Caravanserai

by Hanifa Deen

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About the Book

In 1993 Hanifa Deen set out on a journey of the heart and mind to show the human face of Australian Muslims. These are ordinary people from diverse backgrounds and cultures, people who mow their lawns, worry about their mortgages and love their children. Ten years later, in the wake of September 11 and the Bali bombing, she revisits those people and finds them living in the shadow of the wider community’s hostility. Australia has shifted from the welcoming caravanserai that Deen originally envisaged to a place that many Australian Muslims no longer see as safe for their families. The whispered voices of prejudice from the past are now loud and shrill and gaining currency day by day …

Categories
Current Affairs, Culture & Social History, Award Winning
Publication Year
2003
Publisher
Fremantle Press
Awards

Winner, New South Wales Premier’s Literary Award, 1996
Short listed, Nita B Kibble Award, 1996

ISBN11
1 86368 388 7
ISBN13
9 781863 683883
HB/PB
Paperback
Format
B+ Format (210mm x 131mm)
Pages
400
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