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ISBN: 9781863683883
Dimensions: B+ Format: 20.5x13.8cm
Pages: 400
Publication year: 2003
Publisher: Fremantle Press
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Caravanserai

Written by Hanifa Deen

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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.

Awards

New South Wales Premier’s Literary Award (Winner 1996)
Nita B. Kibble Literary Award (Shortlisted 1996)



Pages: 400
Publication Year: 2003
Publisher: Fremantle Press
ISBN: 9781863683883
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Hanifa Deen

Hanifa Deen is a Western Australian writer of Pakistani ancestry. She is a great believer in women reinventing themselves and her career has spanned teaching, research, the public service, the media and – in what she calls the final leg of her journey – writing.