HOW TO BE A BAD MUSLIM: MOHAMED HASSAN (2022)

HOW TO BE A BAD MUSLIM: MOHAMED HASSAN (2022)

Author: Auckland Writers Festival September 28, 2022 Duration: 1:04:33
Mohamed Hassan’s life has taken him from Cairo to New Zealand and on to Istanbul and London, covering the Middle East, Turkey and Asia Pacific as a journalist. Through it all he has developed a keen eye for questions of identity and culture, which he beautifully brings to bear in his non-fiction essay collection 'How to Be a Bad Muslim'. Ranging across surveillance, migration, language, Islamophobia and the Christchurch attacks, it is a compelling account of growing up Muslim in a post- 9/11 world, told with humour and astute observation. A former slam poetry champion and prize-winning podcaster, Hassan joins Mike McRoberts in conversation.

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