Halal if You Hear Me
Chicago, Illinois : Haymarket Books, 2019.
Format: Book
Description: xvi, 208 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm.
The collected poems dispel the notion that there is one correct way to be a Muslim by holding space for multiple, intersecting identities while celebrating and protecting those identities.
Series: BreakBeat poets series ; v. 3.
Contents:
Foreword: Good Muslim/Bad Muslim / Safia Elhillo -- Foreword: Finding the Hammam / Fatimah Asghar. -- I. Shahada: Following the horn's call / Ladan Osman -- I'm trying to stop writing about water / Ladan Osman -- Why I can dance down a soul-train line in public and still be Muslim / Aisha Sharif -- An introduction / Sheena Raza Raisal -- Muslim girl preamble / Rumsha Sajid -- Glory be to the gang gang gang / Momtaza Mehri -- Jesus at Wynfield Station / Sadia Hassan -- Paulander Drive / Rania El Mugammar -- Small talk / Momtaza Mehri -- Asmarani is at a party & knows this song / Safia Elhillo -- Muslim girlhood / Leila Chatti -- Haram / Fatimah Asghar -- Self-portrait as mango / Tarfia Faizullah -- Say love say God / Zeina Hashem Beck -- Memory in which we are not singing but you are home / Nadra Mabrouk -- Brother as younger self / Nadra Mabrouk -- When you're brown with a hand-me-down bike / Inam King -- & My fathers relived my birth / Yasmin Belkhyr. --
II. Sawm: Fasting in Tunis / Leila Chatti -- A conversation with Ammi / Sahar Romani -- Nail technician as palm reader / Warsan Shire -- Creation myth / Aria Aber -- Come here where are you going come here / Sara Elkamel -- Mama says / Salihah Aakil -- Ammi / Saba Taj -- Blooms omen / Nahrain Al-Mousawi -- Ode to swearing / Safia Elhillo -- Hypothesis : bitch face / Noor Ibn Najam -- A woman is never still / Afshan Shafi -- New names for brown baby girls / Orooj-e Zafar -- A study of anatomy, although I have no desire to study it / Tasneem Maher -- Sidi Ali / Yasmin Belkhyr -- Gnawa boy, Marrakesh, 1968 / Charif Shanahan -- Haratin girl, Marraskesh, 1968 / Charif Shanahan -- Mother, Ka'aba / Zeina Hashem Beck -- Confession / Leila Chatti -- Nakba day dance / Rasha Abdulhadi -- Ode to Dalya's bald spot / Angel Nafis -- Hot combs and hijabs / Aisha Sharif -- Tapestry / Saquina karla C. Guiam -- Loving all my mothers / a DNA joy in hachi hullo li (i love you) / Jacinda Bullie -- Unmotioning / Aria Aber -- Smell is the last memory to go / Fatimah Asghar -- The woman in the white chador / Farnaz Fatemi -- Sacraments / Ladan Osman -- After the Orlando shooting / Juniper Cruz -- Anneanne tells me / beyza ozer. --
III. Hajj: Our mothers fed us well / Yasmin Belkhyr -- Freedom bar / Asnia Asmin -- Snake oil, snake bite / Dilruba Ahmed -- Morning prayer in Taino warpaint / Juniper Cruz -- Elegy / Lena Tuffaha -- Geography test / Saaro Umar -- Common ancestors / Hala Alyan -- Ghazal / Dilruba Ahmed -- Washee/was she / Sahar Muradi -- Human / Ayman Itani -- Sacrifice / Bilal Al-Shams -- Relinquish / Kazim Ali -- My imminent demise makes the headlines the same day I notice how even your front teeth are / Momtaza Mehri -- Habeshawit / Nina Getachew -- Ars poetica / Safia Elhillo -- How to say / Saaro Umar -- Accent / Aisha Sharif -- Reporting live from hookah lounge / Noor Ibn Najam -- Burden of proof / Sahar Romani -- Oxygen / Farah Ghafoor -- Gerisi, Eylül/Rest, Eylül / beyza ozer -- Things get harder when it rains / beyza ozer -- Midnight in the foreign food aisle / Warsan Shire -- Dias/phoria suite / Aaron El Sabrout -- Hello, this letter was never finished / beyza ozer -- If they come for us / Fatimah Asghar. --
IV. Salah: I've watched myself die twice this week / beyza ozer -- Ghazal / Edil Hassan -- What use is knowing anything if no one is around / Kaveh Akbar -- A boy steps into the water / Kaveh Akbar -- Ordinary scripture / Hala Alyan -- Any other name / Khadijah Queen -- Polymath / Seema Yasmin -- Morning / Nikia Chaney -- Somewhere in California / Rumsha Sajid -- Aubade with sage and lemon / Tarfia Faizullah -- 100 bells / Tarfia Faizullah -- QM / H.H. -- For Xulhaz / Lily Jamaludin -- Blush / Nasra -- On longing / Zaina Alsous -- Clubbing with Hamed Sinno / Hazem Fahmy -- In which Iblis lies awake at night / Hazem Fahmy -- June 6th / Edil Hassan -- Forbidden / Farnaz Fatemi -- There needs to be a different word / Rami Karim. --
V. Zakat: Eid in red and white / Beenish Ahmed -- Why activist Blair Imani will no longer wear hijab post-Trump / Blair Imani -- How I learned to accept my queerness as a Muslim woman / Fariha Róisín -- Queer brown futures (or lack thereof) / Lamya H -- Say Ameen / Marwa Helal -- Some kind of holy / Maryam Ahmad -- Practicing Islam in short shorts / Thanaa El-Naggar -- How I used my hijab to hide and why I don't anymore / Mahin Ibrahim -- Muhammad Ali helped shape my identity as a Black Muslim / Najma Sharif -- Of dark rooms and foreign languages / Momina Masood -- Neither slave nor pharaoh / Randa Jarrar -- Now more than ever / Safia Elhillo. -- Acknowledgments -- Index by author -- Biographies.
II. Sawm: Fasting in Tunis / Leila Chatti -- A conversation with Ammi / Sahar Romani -- Nail technician as palm reader / Warsan Shire -- Creation myth / Aria Aber -- Come here where are you going come here / Sara Elkamel -- Mama says / Salihah Aakil -- Ammi / Saba Taj -- Blooms omen / Nahrain Al-Mousawi -- Ode to swearing / Safia Elhillo -- Hypothesis : bitch face / Noor Ibn Najam -- A woman is never still / Afshan Shafi -- New names for brown baby girls / Orooj-e Zafar -- A study of anatomy, although I have no desire to study it / Tasneem Maher -- Sidi Ali / Yasmin Belkhyr -- Gnawa boy, Marrakesh, 1968 / Charif Shanahan -- Haratin girl, Marraskesh, 1968 / Charif Shanahan -- Mother, Ka'aba / Zeina Hashem Beck -- Confession / Leila Chatti -- Nakba day dance / Rasha Abdulhadi -- Ode to Dalya's bald spot / Angel Nafis -- Hot combs and hijabs / Aisha Sharif -- Tapestry / Saquina karla C. Guiam -- Loving all my mothers / a DNA joy in hachi hullo li (i love you) / Jacinda Bullie -- Unmotioning / Aria Aber -- Smell is the last memory to go / Fatimah Asghar -- The woman in the white chador / Farnaz Fatemi -- Sacraments / Ladan Osman -- After the Orlando shooting / Juniper Cruz -- Anneanne tells me / beyza ozer. --
III. Hajj: Our mothers fed us well / Yasmin Belkhyr -- Freedom bar / Asnia Asmin -- Snake oil, snake bite / Dilruba Ahmed -- Morning prayer in Taino warpaint / Juniper Cruz -- Elegy / Lena Tuffaha -- Geography test / Saaro Umar -- Common ancestors / Hala Alyan -- Ghazal / Dilruba Ahmed -- Washee/was she / Sahar Muradi -- Human / Ayman Itani -- Sacrifice / Bilal Al-Shams -- Relinquish / Kazim Ali -- My imminent demise makes the headlines the same day I notice how even your front teeth are / Momtaza Mehri -- Habeshawit / Nina Getachew -- Ars poetica / Safia Elhillo -- How to say / Saaro Umar -- Accent / Aisha Sharif -- Reporting live from hookah lounge / Noor Ibn Najam -- Burden of proof / Sahar Romani -- Oxygen / Farah Ghafoor -- Gerisi, Eylül/Rest, Eylül / beyza ozer -- Things get harder when it rains / beyza ozer -- Midnight in the foreign food aisle / Warsan Shire -- Dias/phoria suite / Aaron El Sabrout -- Hello, this letter was never finished / beyza ozer -- If they come for us / Fatimah Asghar. --
IV. Salah: I've watched myself die twice this week / beyza ozer -- Ghazal / Edil Hassan -- What use is knowing anything if no one is around / Kaveh Akbar -- A boy steps into the water / Kaveh Akbar -- Ordinary scripture / Hala Alyan -- Any other name / Khadijah Queen -- Polymath / Seema Yasmin -- Morning / Nikia Chaney -- Somewhere in California / Rumsha Sajid -- Aubade with sage and lemon / Tarfia Faizullah -- 100 bells / Tarfia Faizullah -- QM / H.H. -- For Xulhaz / Lily Jamaludin -- Blush / Nasra -- On longing / Zaina Alsous -- Clubbing with Hamed Sinno / Hazem Fahmy -- In which Iblis lies awake at night / Hazem Fahmy -- June 6th / Edil Hassan -- Forbidden / Farnaz Fatemi -- There needs to be a different word / Rami Karim. --
V. Zakat: Eid in red and white / Beenish Ahmed -- Why activist Blair Imani will no longer wear hijab post-Trump / Blair Imani -- How I learned to accept my queerness as a Muslim woman / Fariha Róisín -- Queer brown futures (or lack thereof) / Lamya H -- Say Ameen / Marwa Helal -- Some kind of holy / Maryam Ahmad -- Practicing Islam in short shorts / Thanaa El-Naggar -- How I used my hijab to hide and why I don't anymore / Mahin Ibrahim -- Muhammad Ali helped shape my identity as a Black Muslim / Najma Sharif -- Of dark rooms and foreign languages / Momina Masood -- Neither slave nor pharaoh / Randa Jarrar -- Now more than ever / Safia Elhillo. -- Acknowledgments -- Index by author -- Biographies.
Subjects:
Hip-hop -- Influence -- Poetry.
American poetry -- Muslim authors.
American poetry -- Women authors.
American poetry -- 21st century.
Hip-hop -- Influence -- Poetry.
American poetry -- Muslim authors.
American poetry -- Women authors.
American poetry -- 21st century.
ISBN:
9781608466047
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