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Mohja Kahf

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Damascus, Syrian Arab Republic

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Fiction, Poetry, History

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Poet and scholar Mohja Kahf was born in Damascus, Syria. Her family moved to the United States in 1971, and Kahf grew up in the Midwest. She earned a PhD in comparative literature from Rutgers University and is the author of the poetry collections Hagar Poems (2016) and Emails from Scheherazad (2003) and the novel The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf (2006).

Kahf’s experiences growing up in the United States shaped her perceptions of the differences and similarities between the cultures of her home and adopted countries. Her poetry is an amalgam of both Syrian and American influences; Lisa Suhair Majaj commented in ArteNews that Kahf’s work “draws on American colloquialisms and Quranic suras; it is informed not only by American free verse … but ...more

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Average rating: 3.91 · 2,516 ratings · 366 reviews · 15 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf 3.74 avg rating — 1,609 ratings — published 2006 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	E-mails from Scheherazad (The University of Central Florida Contemporary Poetry Series) 4.31 avg rating — 354 ratings — published 2003 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Living Islam Out Loud: American Muslim Women Speak by Saleemah Abdul-Ghafur (Editor), Su'ad Abdul Khabeer (Contributor), Sham-e-Ali al-Jamil (Contributor) 3.93 avg rating — 241 ratings — published 2005 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hagar Poems 4.40 avg rating — 91 ratings — published 2016 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	لهجه‌ها اهلی نمی‌شوند: تجربه‌ی زندگی میان زبان‌های عربی و انگلیسی by Pauline Kaldas, Batoul Firouzan (Translator), هديل غنيم Hadil Ghoneim (Goodreads Author) 4.04 avg rating — 79 ratings — published 2023 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Inclined to Speak: An Anthology of Contemporary Arab American Poetry by Hayan Charara (Editor), Elmaz Abinader (Contributor), Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhran (Contributor) 4.35 avg rating — 55 ratings — published 2008 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Western Representations of the Muslim Woman: From Termagant to Odalisque 4.45 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 1999 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	My Lover Feeds Me Grapefruit 4.45 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2020	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Constructions of Masculinity in the Middle East and North Africa: Literature, Film, and National Discourse by Mohja Kahf (Editor), Nadine Sinno (Editor) 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Western Representations of the Muslim Woman: From Termagant to Odalisque by Mohja Kahf(2013-07-04) by Mohja Kahf, Unknown Author 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“All women speak two languages:
 the language of men
 and the language of silent suffering. 
Some women speak a third,
 the language of queens.”
― Mohja Kahf, E-mails from Scheherazad

tags: feminism, women

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“My arrogance knows no bounds
And I will make no peace today
And you shall be so lucky
To find a woman like me

Today neither will the East claim me
nor the West admit me
Today my belly is a well
wherein serpents are coiled
ready to poison the world,
and you should be so lucky.

All I have is my arrogance
I will teach it to lean back
and smoke a cigarette in your faces,
and you should be so lucky

No I will make no peace
even though my hands are empty
I will talk as big as I please
I will be all or nothing
And I will jump before the heavy trucks
And I will saw off my leg at the thigh
before I bend one womanly knee

I am poison
And you will drink me
And you should be so lucky.”
― Mohja Kahf

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“I'm not defending their views. I'm defending their right to have their views. There's a difference.”
― Mohja Kahf, The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf

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