Halal If You Hear Me

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Cover of Halal If You Hear Me

Image of "Mother, Ka'aba"

Image of "Hot Combs and Hijabs"

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Selections from Halal If You Hear Me (The BreakBeat Poets, vol. 3). Fatimah Asghar and Safia Elhillo, editors. Haymarket Books, 2019.

Halal If You Hear Me gathers work by “Muslims who are women, queer, genderqueer, nonbinary, and/or trans.” In her foreword to this anthology, editor Safia Elhillo writes, “The poems and essays in this anthology are the Muslim community I didn’t know I was allowed to dream of. The Muslim community in which my child-self could have blossomed—proof of the fact that there are as many ways to be Muslim as there are Muslims. […] The writers in this anthology demonstrate the sheer cacophony of Muslimness, of Muslim identities, of Muslim people.” Three poems by Zeina Hashem Beck, Aisha Sharif, and Dilruba Ahmed included in the anthology are presented here.