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The Crescent and the Pen - The Strange Journey of Taslima Nasreen - Author, Icon, Outcast |
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Taslima Nasreen, known in some circles as the 'female Salman Rushdie', was accused of blasphemy in 1993 by Bangladeshi religious fanatics. Taslima fled to Sweden where she was celebrated as a freedom of expression icon, who'd defeated 'the bearded fundamentalists'. A fairytale story unfolded although real life events were far more complex. What did feminists and other progressive elements in Bangladesh think about Taslima? Was she a beneficiary of the West's failure to 'save' Rushdie in the mid 90s? Internationally acclaimed as a feminist icon, in her homeland it's a very different story.
Hanifa Deen, an award-winning Melbourne-based author and social commentator, will explore issues of Muslim extremists, myth making and international literary politics as she tells the story of Taslima Nasreem and the 'Dragon Slayers' who 'rescued' her. Deen is a writer of narrative non-fiction. Her books include Caravanserai; Broken Bangles and her most recent work, The Crescent and the Pen: The Strange Journey of Taslima Nasreen, recently published in the USA in October this year.
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