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UNDEFEATED: A North African Writer's Support for Israel by Kola Boof
"Kola Boof is alluring, earthy, angry and impressionistic" -- THE NEW YORK TIMES
"Kola Boof is one of the great migrant writers of our time"--HUFFINGTON POST
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Dubbed the most controversial woman in the world by CNN...and called "Ayaan Hirsi Ali on steroids" by the NY Observer, award winning Egyptian-Sudanese-American novelist KOLA BOOF ("The Sexy Part of the Bible", Akashic Books) delivers a passionate folksy sermon on why she, a Black-skinned North African, supports Israel over the governments of the Arab Islamic world for strategic reasons. Though the book is billed as a defense of Israel, Ms. Boof centers Africa--it's future well being and stability.
The fiery half-Arab, vaginally infibulated Kola Boof, who was born Sunni Muslim in Omdurman, Sudan but adopted and raised in the U.S. by Black American parents has been the target of wide-ranging smear campaigns and Black-listing for a number of issues since she first became known to American readers via U.N. reports of a fatwa placed on her life by a Shariah Court in Sudan in 2002 (*documented by Freedom House for her feminist activities in Africa). This was followed by revelations that she had once been the mistress of the world's two top terrorists--Osama Bin Laden and his mentor Hasan al-Turabi (former Vice President of Sudan)--against her will in 1996.
Boof, who espouses many controversial views on everything from America's 1 drop rule to interracial love to Islam and Christianity has become a polarizing and embattled character, an underground icon of many fan-bases who know her as everything...writer of SONY TV's most popular daytime soap operas (Days of Our Lives and Young and the Restless), professional cook, author of the bestsellers "The Sexy Part of the Bible," "Diary of a Lost Girl" and "Flesh and the Devil" and the resident Diva Villainous of BLACK TWITTER where she holds the record for blocking the most people. Boof is attacked regularly by powerful Islamic groups and organizations determined to silence her, foreign and American alike. But death threats against Boof don't just come from radical Islamists, she has also been threatened by Anti-Gay politicians in Africa, disgruntled Black American men, U.S. Pro-Lifers and White Conservatives.
In UNDEFEATED: A North African Writer's Support for Israel, Kola Boof employs a fascinating historical perspective that has hardly been in print before. Boof's vast knowledge of her region's history accompanied by deeply personal experiences as a Black Muslim African woman who has lived in Israel twice and considers it a second home make this book highly effective in deconstructing Western leftist notions of Israel as the bad guy and everyone else in the middle east as the good guy. Boof's heartfelt candor and blistering prose nearly ALMOST made me, an ardent "Free Palestine" activist, turn wholeheartedly for Israel. I certainly have a more leveled opinion after reading this arresting commentary. As an African-American woman from Virginia, I've never read a book that centered African people's interests in the middle east the way Boof so skillfully and emphatically does here. The opening chapter, “DEAR BLACK AMERICA” has especially changed my thinking to be more about Africa and less about Palestine. Those Blacks who think Israel is racist will have a rude awakening as Boof brutally exposes a picture of the entire region. This is a must read for African Americans Scholars and activists as well as the Pro-Israel crowd I'm assuming will flock to this.
---Angela Britten, FREE PALESTINE (Venice Beach)
"Kola Boof is one of the great migrant writers of our time"--HUFFINGTON POST
_________________
Dubbed the most controversial woman in the world by CNN...and called "Ayaan Hirsi Ali on steroids" by the NY Observer, award winning Egyptian-Sudanese-American novelist KOLA BOOF ("The Sexy Part of the Bible", Akashic Books) delivers a passionate folksy sermon on why she, a Black-skinned North African, supports Israel over the governments of the Arab Islamic world for strategic reasons. Though the book is billed as a defense of Israel, Ms. Boof centers Africa--it's future well being and stability.
The fiery half-Arab, vaginally infibulated Kola Boof, who was born Sunni Muslim in Omdurman, Sudan but adopted and raised in the U.S. by Black American parents has been the target of wide-ranging smear campaigns and Black-listing for a number of issues since she first became known to American readers via U.N. reports of a fatwa placed on her life by a Shariah Court in Sudan in 2002 (*documented by Freedom House for her feminist activities in Africa). This was followed by revelations that she had once been the mistress of the world's two top terrorists--Osama Bin Laden and his mentor Hasan al-Turabi (former Vice President of Sudan)--against her will in 1996.
Boof, who espouses many controversial views on everything from America's 1 drop rule to interracial love to Islam and Christianity has become a polarizing and embattled character, an underground icon of many fan-bases who know her as everything...writer of SONY TV's most popular daytime soap operas (Days of Our Lives and Young and the Restless), professional cook, author of the bestsellers "The Sexy Part of the Bible," "Diary of a Lost Girl" and "Flesh and the Devil" and the resident Diva Villainous of BLACK TWITTER where she holds the record for blocking the most people. Boof is attacked regularly by powerful Islamic groups and organizations determined to silence her, foreign and American alike. But death threats against Boof don't just come from radical Islamists, she has also been threatened by Anti-Gay politicians in Africa, disgruntled Black American men, U.S. Pro-Lifers and White Conservatives.
In UNDEFEATED: A North African Writer's Support for Israel, Kola Boof employs a fascinating historical perspective that has hardly been in print before. Boof's vast knowledge of her region's history accompanied by deeply personal experiences as a Black Muslim African woman who has lived in Israel twice and considers it a second home make this book highly effective in deconstructing Western leftist notions of Israel as the bad guy and everyone else in the middle east as the good guy. Boof's heartfelt candor and blistering prose nearly ALMOST made me, an ardent "Free Palestine" activist, turn wholeheartedly for Israel. I certainly have a more leveled opinion after reading this arresting commentary. As an African-American woman from Virginia, I've never read a book that centered African people's interests in the middle east the way Boof so skillfully and emphatically does here. The opening chapter, “DEAR BLACK AMERICA” has especially changed my thinking to be more about Africa and less about Palestine. Those Blacks who think Israel is racist will have a rude awakening as Boof brutally exposes a picture of the entire region. This is a must read for African Americans Scholars and activists as well as the Pro-Israel crowd I'm assuming will flock to this.
---Angela Britten, FREE PALESTINE (Venice Beach)
178 pages, Kindle Edition
First published March 24, 2015
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