EssayDURING MY DOCTORAL fieldwork researching Islamophobia from the point of view of the ‘Islamophobes’, I spent many weekends in the town of Bayside on the Central Coast of New South Wales, where my parents had bought a holiday house. I had...

GR Online ‘THE DAILY LIFE of Muslim women.’ ‘An understanding of the women behind the veils.’ ‘A compelling insight into women in the Muslim world.’ This is what the blurb of Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women...

EssaySelected for The Best Australian Political Writing 2008 "DO YOU EVER wish you were fully Aussie?" This question was posed to me by a teenage girl in a Sydney school last year. "What do you mean by fully Aussie?" I asked. "Um...

MemoirWinner, 2005 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards, Alfred Deakin Prize for an Essay Advancing Public DebateThis is not a comic-book plot. This is not a Paul Jennings tale. This is real. There are pieces of material floating around in Australian...